Gerry Mulligan & Big Band - Walk On The Water - 12 July 1982 • World of Jazz

'Walk On The Water' as performed by Gerry Mulligan at this North Sea Jazz Festival performance, is from his 1980 album 'Walk on the Water' In 1982, the album received the Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album.

American jazz baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan and his Big Band performed this composition at the North Sea Jazz Festival in the Prins Willem Alexanderzaal of the Congresgebouw, The Hague, The Netherlands on July 16th, 1982.

Gerry Mulligan was one of the leading arrangers in the era of cool jazz working with Miles Davis, Stan Kenton and Claude Thornhill in the 1950’s and 1960’s.
Mulligan’s quartet of the early 50’s with trumpeter Chet Baker is still regarded as one of the best cool jazz groups.
Born in New York in 1927, Mulliagan spend his life composing, arranging and playing jazz untill his untimely death on January 20, 1996.

Featuring a.o.:
• Dave Glenn on trombone
• Harold Danko on Piano
• Ed Neumeister on trombone
• Chris Rogers on flugelhorn


Other compositions played:
• For an Unfinished Woman
• Walk On The Water
• Out Back Of The Barn
• Maytag
• I’m Getting Sentimental Over You
*Little Big Horn

Live at the North Sea Jazz Festival, 16 July 1982
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