Gerry Mulligan ~ Night Lights (1963)


"This album titled song was composed by Gerry Mulligan and this particular piece to me is straight out of the jazz history books. It is a timeless mood for those of us who like the wee hours of the morning and the dark we seem so accustomed to as if 3:00am is the norm. It reminds me of either driving around or sitting down by Detroit’s riverfront on a hot summer night when it’s still 80 degrees out in the middle of the night. Mulligan took to the piano himself on this 63′ rendition and laid down one of jazz’s most beautiful pieces. I could have picked a thousand that he did on sax. This mans bio reads like the who of who’s playing with almost every big known jazz musicians there was. ..."
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