Lee Konitz Plays with the Gerry Mulligan Quartet

Lee Konitz Plays with the Gerry Mulligan Quartet (also released as Konitz Meets Mulligan) is a compilation album by saxophonist and bandleader Gerry Mulligan's Quartet with Lee Konitz featuring performances recorded in early-1953. The records on the album were originally released on 10-inch LPs Lee Konitz Plays with the Gerry Mulligan Quartet and Lee Konitz and the Gerry Mulligan Quartet on Pacific Jazz Records along with previously unreleased tracks and alternate takes.^[1][2][3]

Lee Konitz Plays with the Gerry Mulligan Quartet
Compilation album by Lee Konitz and the Gerry Mulligan Quartet
Released	1957
Recorded	January 23 & 30 and February 1, 1953
Studio	The Haig, Hollywood, California unknown studio and Phil Turetsky's House, Los Angeles, California
Genre	Jazz
Length	37:45
Label	World Pacific
Producer	Richard Bock
Gerry Mulligan chronology
Gerry Mulligan Quartet Volume 1 (1952) Lee Konitz Plays with the Gerry Mulligan Quartet (1957) Gerry Mulligan Quartet Volume 2 (1953)
Lee Konitz chronology
The New Sounds (1951) Lee Konitz Plays with the Gerry Mulligan Quartet (1953) Lee Konitz Plays (1953)
PJLP 2 Cover
PJLP 10 Cover

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[4]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[5]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[6]

The AllMusic review by Ron Wynn called it "A simply wonderful pairing of idiosyncratic talents".^[4]

Track listing

1. "Too Marvelous for Words" (Richard A. Whiting, Johnny Mercer) – 3:36 Originally released on PJLP 10
2. "Lover Man" (Jimmy Davis, Ram Ramirez, Jimmy Sherman) – 3:01 Originally released on PJLP 2
3. "I'll Remember April" (Gene de Paul, Patricia Johnston, Don Raye) – 4:08
4. "These Foolish Things" (Jack Strachey, Holt Marvell, Harry Link) – 3:15 Originally released on PJLP 10
5. "All the Things You Are" (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 3:55
6. "Bernie's Tune" (Bernie Miller, Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller) – 3:32 Bonus track on CD reissue
7. "Almost Like Being in Love" (Frederick Loewe, Alan Jay Lerner) – 2:50 Originally released on PJLP 10
8. "Sextet" (Gerry Mulligan) – 2:59 Originally released on PJLP 2
9. "Broadway" (Billy Bird, Teddy McRae, Henry J. Wood) – 2:54 Originally released on PJLP 10
10. "I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me" (Jimmy McHugh, Clarence Gaskill) – 3:05 Originally released on PJLP 2
11. "Oh, Lady Be Good!" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 2:38 Originally released on PJLP 2
12. "Oh, Lady Be Good!" [alternate take] (Gershwin, Gershwin) – 1:52 Bonus track on CD reissue

• Recorded at the Haig club, Los Angeles California on January 23, 1953 (tracks 1–6); at an unidentified studio in Los Angeles, California. on January 30, 1953 (tracks 7–9); and at Phil Turetsky's home studio, Los Angeles, California on February 1, 1953 (tracks 10–12).

Personnel

• Lee Konitz – alto saxophone
• Gerry Mulligan – baritone saxophone - backgrounds 1-6
• Chet Baker – trumpet - backgrounds 1-6
• Joe Mondragon (tracks 10–12), Carson Smith (tracks 1–9) – bass
• Larry Bunker – drums

Charts

Chart performance for Lee Konitz Plays with the Gerry Mulligan Quartet

Chart (2021)	Peak position
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[7]	93

References

1. Pacific Jazz Records Catalog: 1200 series accessed March 3, 2016
2. Gerry Mulligan Discography Archived 2012-04-22 at the Wayback Machine accessed March 3, 2016
3. Lee Konitz discography accessed May 29, 2017
4. Wynn, Ron. Konitz Meets Mulligan – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved March 3, 2016.
5. Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
6. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 835. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
7. "Offiziellecharts.de – Lee Konitz with the Gerry Mulligan Quartet – Lee Konitz Plays with the Gerry Mulligan Quartet" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved October 15, 2021.