Gerry Mulligan interview, North Sea Jazz Festival • 16-07-1982 • World of Jazz

Baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan is interviewed at the North Sea Jazz festival about his career and the artists he worked with. He talks about his collaboration with artists such as Zoot Sims, Clark Terry, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Artie Shaw, Glenn Miller, Gene Krupa, Gil Evans and Claude Thornhill. He 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. Watch more World of Jazz videos ► https://goo.gl/Z28cxv Join us. Subscribe now! ► https://goo.gl/n2FHaL Thanks for all your support, rating the video and leaving a comment is always appreciated! Please: respect each other in the comments. This is the official YouTube channel of World of Jazz.