Gerry Mulligan Quartet / Spring Is Sprung

Gerry Mulligan's complete first and second quartet LPs with Bob Brookmeyer on valve trombone: The Gerry Mulligan Quartet and Spring Is Sprung, both taped in 1962. Mostly recorded without a piano (Mulligan and Brookmeyer play piano on just three tracks), these sides followed the standard set by Mulligan himself on his classic piano-less quartets with Chet Baker, Art Farmer, and with Brookmeyer, himself (the baritone saxophonist and trombonist's first quartet attempts date from 1954). Two extra songs from an October 1962 concert in Paris by the same formation as the first LP have been added here as a bonus. Essential Jazz Classics.