In a way, I started out to be a baritone player. (Gerry Mulligan)
Yes you know, some years I do a lot of dates and a world tour with the big band and then the next year we'll probably only do a handful of dates. (Gerry Mulligan)
People are approaching electronic levels in music; although not all of it happens to tickle my fancy. (Gerry Mulligan)
So I played alto for quite a while until I saved up the money for the baritone. (Gerry Mulligan)
And the other thing we do we periodically have softball games with the band, because they're all baseball nuts that helps to keep the spirit alive. (Gerry Mulligan)
Now, the instrumentation in the jazz band and the jazz dance band has gone through many evolutions. For instance, in the 'twenties the tradition was two or three saxophones. (Gerry Mulligan)
Actually, when I was very young, first starting to play, I think I probably listened more to clarinet players than to saxophones. (Gerry Mulligan)
The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing. (Gerry Mulligan)
The recording industry has changed; they're enjoying such incredible success in the pop field. (Gerry Mulligan)
You can make a saxophone into an electric organ; you can do everything with it. (Gerry Mulligan)
The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing. (Gerry Mulligan)
You start way down on a low B flat on the tuba and you have a chromatic scale; you can match the colours all the way up, till you get to the top of the trumpet. (Gerry Mulligan)
This life of being a transient human being has gotten to a point when it's very hard to bear. (Gerry Mulligan)
Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra. (Gerry Mulligan)
I've appeared on some other people's albums. (Gerry Mulligan)