Library of Congress: I Hear America Singing - Gerry Mulligan Collection Update

[Laura Gottesman]

The Music Division of the Library of Congress is pleased to announce
that the Gerry Mulligan Collection presentation on the I Hear America
Singing Web site http://www.loc.gov/ihas/ contains new materials,
including:

* A 413-page discography of the jazz legend's career by Gerard
Dugelay and Kenneth Hallqvist, which has been added in pdf format for
downloading. 

*Manuscript scores and parts written by Gerry Mulligan for the album
Age of Steam (1971), which are available along with recorded excerpts
of all of the tracks.  

*Notated scores in Finale software, created by the International Jazz
Collections at the University of Idaho, are now available for two of the
album's tracks, "One to Ten in Ohio" and "K-4 Pacific."

As a saxophonist, composer, arranger and band leader, Gerry Mulligan
(1927-1996) is a jazz legend. From his involvement in The Birth of the
Cool recordings with Miles Davis, to his legendary "pianoless" quartet
in 1951, to the creation of the sound known as "West Coast Jazz,"
Mulligan played a vital role in the evolution of jazz.

The Library of Congress serves as the repository for the Gerry Mulligan
Collection, which it obtained in the late 1990s. Consisting of
approximately 700 items, the collection includes original scores, lead
sheets, sketches, arrangements and parts, photographs, sound recordings,
correspondence and papers relating to different concerts and projects,
and an oral autobiography which Mulligan recorded shortly before he
died. Portions of this collection are available on the Web site I Hear
America Singing  http://www.loc.gov/ihas/, including excerpts from his
autobiography and selected scores and sound recordings.  Most of these
items have been made available for study and research through the
generosity and cooperation of Franca R. Mulligan and Mulligan Publishing
Co., Inc. 

I Hear America Singing is a new Library of Congress Web site available
at http://www.loc.gov/ihas/ which invites visitors to experience the
diversity of American performing arts through the Library's unsurpassed
collections of scores, sheet music, audio recordings, films,
photographs, maps, and other materials.  Special presentations on
selected topics highlight some of the unique and unusual materials in
the Library's collections. This site is a continually-growing resource,
and visitors are encouraged to return regularly to see what's new.

Please direct all inquiries to Music Division staff by using the
division's "Ask A Librarian" Web form, available at:
http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/ask-perform2.html