Walkin' Shoes

Gerry Mulligan Quartet · 1952 · with Chet Baker

Context

Composition by Mulligan, one of his most popular, recorded in Los Angeles by the pianoless quartet with Chet Baker, Bob Whitlock and Chico Hamilton. It appears on the first 10-inch record released by Pacific Jazz.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to West Coast, Cool (Birth of the Cool). Among the origins and influences of West Coast: Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's), Cool (Birth of the Cool), Bossa nova, jazz samba.

By the same artist

• Bernie's Tune (1952)

Sources

• EN: Gerry Mulligan Quartet Volume 1
• EN: Walkin' Shoes

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