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Gerry Mulligan - Midas Touch: Live in Berlin (2003)

Posted By: Designol

Date: 28 Mar 2025 17:14:49

A little less than eight years after it occurred, Concord Records issued this concert, originally broadcast on German radio, from Gerry Mulligan's last European tour, performed less than a year before his death. Mulligan appears with his regular band of the time – pianist Ted Rosenthal, bassist Dean Johnson, and drummer Ron Vincent – playing a group of originals that serve as springboards for his lyrical style of baritone saxophone playing. The group, which had been together for several years at this point, plays smoothly, offering excellent support to the leader. A special treat is the final track, a version of "These Foolish Things" on which Mulligan duets with guest star Dave Brubeck. The album demonstrates that, in his maturity, Mulligan continued to live up to the standards he had set for himself across a career stretching back 45 years. There are no real revelations this late in the game, but Mulligan and the band play with the assurance of veterans.

Review by William Ruhlmann, Allmusic.com

Baritonist Gerry Mulligan’s Midas Touch (Concord) documents yet another European concert by an essential American saxophonist no longer with us. Recorded live in Berlin in 1995, just a few months before Mulligan’s death in early 1996, this previously unreleased collection of seven Mulligan tunes performed by a superb, well-rehearsed quartet (plus a duet with Dave Brubeck on the standard “These Foolish Things”) shows the saxophonist at his most sensitive, as on the moving “Wallflower” and at his most visceral, as on the high-flying “Sun on the Stairs” and the obligatory “Walkin’ Shoes.” Mulligan’s smooth, distinctive tone, his lyrical expressiveness, his joyous swing and his composer’s ability to create logical, coherently constructed choruses are all fully on display. And the excellence of his rhythm section-pianist Ted Rosenthal, bassist Dean Johnson and drummer Ron Vincent-helped assure a top-notch product, Rosenthal’s prodigious technique and imaginative improvisations being particularly noteworthy. The final duet with Brubeck, which starts out as a ballad before the pianist switches to a sprightly double-time stride accompaniment, is a charming bonus.

Review by David Franklin, JazzTimes.com

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Baritone Saxophone – Gerry Mulligan
Double Bass – Dean Johnson
Piano – Dave Brubeck (tracks: 9), Ted Rosenthal
Drums – Ron Vincent

Recording Date May 9, 1995, Berlin

Tracklist:

01. Out Back of the Barn (11:03)
02. Intro & Comments by Gerry Mulligan (0:46)
03. Wallflower (7:45)
04. Midas Lives (10:08)
05. Noblesse (8:07)
06. Sun of the Stairs (8:28)
07. Curtains (9:58)
08. Walkin' Shoes (7:29)
09. These Foolish Things (5:35)

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