Mulligan Mosaics
13 pc Big Band
Fri. Aug 29xxxxxxxx$26

Mulligan Mosaic’s leader Ted Hogarth’s search for available scores from the Gerry Mulligan Concert Band led him to a partnership with Mulligan’s widow to digitize and make available to the public this great music. Though a veteran of several big bands it also led Hogarth to form his own big band, assembling top notch players in the Chicago area.           

While Hogarth could go on for days about why he chose to play Mulligan's music, he said it all boils down to uniqueness. Through nontraditional chord voicing and instrument combinations, Mulligan "...turned the rules of jazz on their head," Hogarth said. He also took the piano out of jazz, which, according to Hogarth, enables the soloist to be more expressive.

Mulligan Mosaics is a thirteen piece big band that swings hard. They have been performing since the summer of 2006 mostly around Chicago and specifically at Fitzgerald’s in Berwyn. This music has enormous energy. The writing has a spareness of a quartet but with a lot of rich harmonies and deft interaction between sections. Every soloist fuels the fire and contributes to the solid swing of Mulligan’s writing. This is jazz direct from the source.

Sponsored by: Bentley Pharmacy - Princeton. Montello, Westfield

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