Night Lights

by Gerry Mulligan

Night Lights cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: December 1963
  • Label: Philips
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 34:20
  • Community rating: 4.03/5 from 5 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'Night Lights' is a quintessential masterpiece of subdued, after-hours cool jazz. Gerry Mulligan's baritone saxophone sighs over pristine, lonely arrangements, conjuring gorgeous cinematic images of a quiet metropolis at midnight.

Genres

Descriptors: instrumental, improvisation

Tracklist

  1. Night Lights (4:58)
  2. Morning Of The Carnival - From "Black Orpheus" (5:30)
  3. In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning (5:39)
  4. Prelude In E Minor (4:16)
  5. Festival Minor (6:50)
  6. Tell Me When (4:09)
  7. Night Lights - 1965 Version (2:55)

Credits

  • Gerry Mulligan - primary artist, arranged by, baritone saxophone, piano
  • Bill Crow - bass
  • Oliver Hardimon - design
  • Dave Bailey - drums
  • Tommy Nola - engineer
  • Art Farmer - flugelhorn, trumpet
  • Jim Hall - guitar
  • Willis Conover - liner notes
  • Hal Mooney - recorded by
  • Bob Brookmeyer - trombone

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