If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em!
1965 studio album by Gerry Mulligan
If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em! | ||||
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Studio album by Gerry Mulligan | ||||
Released | 1965 | |||
Recorded | July 22, 26, 27 & 28, 1965 | |||
Studio | Radio Recorders, Hollywood, California | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 33:46 | |||
Label | Limelight LS 86021 | |||
Producer | Jack Tracy | |||
Gerry Mulligan chronology | ||||
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If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em! is an album by American jazz saxophonist Gerry Mulligan featuring performances recorded in 1965 and first released on the Limelight label.[1][2]
Reception
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [3] |
AllMusic awarded the album 3 stars and its review by Ken Dryen states, "Many jazz musicians were frustrated with the public's focus on rock & roll and pop music in general at the time this recording was made. So Mulligan, like many other jazzmen, decided to take a few of the hits and recast them in a jazz setting. ...of borderline interest to serious fans of Gerry Mulligan, due to the uneven material and a supporting cast that is not up to the level one expects on the baritone saxophonist's records".[3]
Track listing
- "King of the Road" (Roger Miller) - 2:32
- "Engine, Engine No. 9" (Miller) - 3:53
- "Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte" (Frank De Vol, Mack David) - 4:02
- "I Know a Place" (Tony Hatch) - 3:25
- "Can't Buy Me Love" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) - 3:34
- "A Hard Day's Night" (Lennon, McCartney) - 3:51
- "If I Fell" (Lennon, McCartney) - 3:12
- "Downtown" (Hatch) - 2:30
- "Mr. Tambourine Man" (Bob Dylan) - 3:17
- "If You Can't Beat 'em, Join 'em" (Gerry Mulligan) - 3:30
Personnel
- Gerry Mulligan - baritone saxophone
- Pete Jolly - piano
- Johnny Gray - guitar
- Jimmy Bond - bass
- Hal Blaine - drums
References
- ^ Gerry Mulligan Discography Archived 2012-04-22 at the Wayback Machine accessed February 22, 2016
- ^ Mercury Records Catalog: Limelight series accessed February 22, 2016
- ^ a b Dryden, Ken. If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved February 22, 2016.
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Years given are for the recording(s), including the soundtrack albums, not first release. Some of the titles have been shortened.
as
leader
or
co-leader
- Lee Konitz Plays with the Gerry Mulligan Quartet (1953)
- Paris Concert (with Bob Brookmeyer, 1954)
- California Concerts (1954)
- Presenting the Gerry Mulligan Sextet (1955)
- Mainstream of Jazz (1956)
- At Storyville (1956)
- The Teddy Wilson Trio &
Gerry Mulligan Quartet with Bob Brookmeyer at Newport (split album, 1957) - Jazz Giants '58 (with Harry Edison, Stan Getz, 1958)
- Mulligan Meets Monk (with Thelonious Monk, 1957)
- Blues in Time (with Paul Desmond, 1957)
- Gerry Mulligan Meets Stan Getz
- Jazz Concerto Grosso (with Bob Brookmeyer, 1957)
- The Gerry Mulligan Songbook (1957)
- Annie Ross Sings a Song with Mulligan! (1957–58)
- What Is There to Say? (1958–59)
- Meets Johnny Hodges (1959)
- Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster (1959)
- The Concert Jazz Band (1960)
- The Concert Jazz Band on Tour (1960)
- The Concert Jazz Band at the Village Vanguard (1960)
- Holliday with Mulligan (with Judy Holliday, 1961)
- Presents a Concert in Jazz (1961)
- The Gerry Mulligan Quartet (with Bob Brookmeyer, 1962)
- Jeru (1962)
- Two of a Mind (with Paul Desmond, 1962)
- Spring Is Sprung (1962)
- Gerry Mulligan '63 (1962)
- Night Lights (1963)
- Butterfly with Hiccups (1963–64)
- If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em! (1965)
- Feelin' Good (1965)
- Something Borrowed - Something Blue (1966)
- Summit (with Astor Piazzolla, 1974)
- Walk on the Water (1980)
Chet
Baker
- Gerry Mulligan Quartet Volume 1 (1952)
- Gerry Mulligan Quartet Volume 2 (1953)
- Gene Norman Presents the
Original Gerry Mulligan Tentet and Quartet (1953) - Reunion (1957)
- Carnegie Hall Concert (1974)
Dave
Brubeck
others
- Birth of the Cool (Miles Davis, 1949–50)
- 2:00 AM Paradise Cafe (Barry Manilow, 1984)
- Pelé (Sérgio Mendes & Pelé, 1977)
- Charles Mingus and Friends in Concert (1972)
- The Classic Concert Live (with Mel Tormé & George Shearing, 1982)
- The Sound of Jazz (1957)
- I Want to Live! (1958)
- The Subterraneans (1960)
- The Hot Rock (Quincy Jones, 1971)