Gerry Mulligan-Chet Baker Quartet

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This paper introduces, discusses and analyzes the topic of the Gerry Mulligan-Chet Baker Quartet. Specifically, it contains an artist profile, which focuses on the artist's primary contribution to their style of expression. It shows how the Gerry Mulligan-Chet Baker Quartet added the "smooth" to West Coast jazz, and created a new form of jazz entertainment that appealed to a wider audience.

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"In fact, versatile musician Mulligan, who played baritone sax and clarinet, wrote and arranged songs, and created one of the first pianoless quartets, "would play an important role in developing cool jazz on the West Coast" (Gioia 283). In fact, Mulligan helped originate "cool jazz," along with such jazz institutions as Miles Davis. The sound originated in the east in the 1940s, and Mulligan was a driving force in the arrangements and orchestrations. Critics have called him an emotional and sensitive player who also had a great ear for arranging. "Gerry Mulligan, an artist of exquisite sensitivity, has to his credit above all the emotional impact of his solos, which are sometimes particularly successful melodically" (Hodeir 125). Mulligan took the cool jazz sound and redid it later in his career, literally bringing jazz to a much wider audience, bringing it into the realm of popular music."

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