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Play Phil Sunkel's Jazz Concerto Grosso

Gerry Mulligan

Recorded	Oct 14-15, 1957
Label	His Master's Voice
Released	1957
Personnel	19 credited players
Discogs	master 488273

The record

Phil Sunkel's third-stream ambitions pull Mulligan into unfamiliar territory here, his baritone folded into a brass-and-reed ensemble built for classical-jazz crossover rather than his usual small-group counterpoint. Hinton and Marshall split bass duties across the session's dense charts.

Session personnel

Dick Meldonian — alto saxophone
Gene Allen — baritone saxophone
Gerry Mulligan — baritone saxophone
Milt Hinton — bass
Wendell Marshall — bass
Eddie Bert — bass trombone
Phil Sunkel — cornet
Harold Granowsky — drums
Osie Johnson — drums
John Wilson — flugelhorn
Cliff Hoff — tenor saxophone
Jim Reider — tenor saxophone
William Slapin — tenor saxophone
Frank Rehak — trombone
Al Stewart — trumpet
Don Stratton — trumpet
Nick Travis — trumpet
Don Butterfield — tuba
Bob Brookmeyer — valve trombone

Contemporary reception

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Pressings

1958	ABC-Paramount · ABC-225 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono earliest on file · laminated sleeve
1957	Electrola · E 60 585 — Vinyl, 10", 33 ⅓ RPM, Gatefold · gatefold
1957	Electrola · E 60 585 — Vinyl, 10", 33 ⅓ RPM, Test Pressing, White Label, Gatefold · gatefold
1958	His Master's Voice — MONO
1958	ABC-Paramount · ABC-225 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Promo, Mono · laminated sleeve
1958	W & G · WG-BJN-648 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
1958	ABC-Paramount · ABC-225 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Shelley Pressing
1977	ABC-Paramount · YW-8531-AB — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Mono