Gerry Mulligan
Baritone Sax Solo on
That Old Feeling

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Gerry Mulligan leads off the solos with two choruses on baritone sax, the first of three improvisations on the recording. Taken at an up-tempo swing tempo of 181 BPM over the 32-bar ABAC in D, the improvisation flows with assured, relaxed momentum. Gerry Mulligan opens with two choruses on baritone saxophone over the 32-bar ABAC form in D major at 181 beats per minute, his warm, buoyant tone immediately identifiable as the sound that helped define the West Coast jazz movement. Recorded for the album Getz Meets Mulligan in Hi-Fi in 1957, the performance captures Gerry Mulligan at 29 to 30 years old.

Gerry Mulligan was 29 to 30 years old at the time.