Mulligan and Me New York Performances

At Jazz at Lincoln Center, **Gerry Mulligan Centennial: Mulligan and Me** traces the music and working methods of baritone saxophonist and arranger Gerry Mulligan, a key figure in cool jazz and the postwar New York scene. The program moves between his roles as bandleader and behind-the-scenes architect, touching on his arrangements for Claude Thornhill, Miles Davis, and Stan Kenton. In a city that helped shape his sound, the set reads like a compact oral history in charts and tone. The clearest critical point is how deliberately it treats restraint as an aesthetic choice, not a limitation.