Baker/Mulligan vs. Martin/Lewis

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Aren't the former a grotesque hyperbolic version of the latter? Gerry Mulligan had an even higher IQ than Jerry Lewis and was correspondingly more self-aggrandising, neurotic and juvenile, while Baker took the art of being a passive bystander to one's own existence (CONSCIOUSNESS even!) to undreamt-of levels

― dave q, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

(obv.) I just finished 'Deep in a Dream' - the smack antics just get more and more out-there (there's about five on every page), but I thought the 'worst' bit was when he was reduced to moving in with a stalker! Alan Partridge or what?

― dave q, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

proof i am on crack = by baker i momentarily thought you meant GERRY RAFFERTY (process of "logic" = baker => baker street => famous for THAT sax solo => gerry rafferty vs gerry mulligan => classic skewed dave q apples-oranges comparison which you can't straight away see)

so, anyway...

― mark s, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

This was a fuckin' great thread.

I've never really liked the sound of the baritone, plus I bet Stan Getz gave Gerry Mulligan a run for his money in the "self- aggrandising, neurotic and juvenile" stakes.

Jerry Lewis used to make prank phonecalls - the original Jerky Boy.

I'm always a little bit suspicious of ppl who only listen to the East Coast boys - I mean sure, I dig Lee Konitz, Art Pepper, Warne Marsh, Tristano, Bud Shank etc., but as charming as some of Chet's recs are, I don't think they're anywhere near as rich/well-played as a Miles Davis alb of any equivalent period, and Getz is kind of a bland Johnny Hodges. Dave Brubeck sucks too.

― Andrew L, Saturday, 15 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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