Stan Kenton: All the Things You Are

Kenton admired Gerry Mulligan, but didn't like his attitude or his insistence on everything played his way. Yet for a time, Stan not only bought Mulligan's original compositions such as "Young Blood" and "Limelight," but he assigned Gerry to write arrangements for the dance book, which Mulligan later called "dog work." Mulligan used the opportunity to experiment; his setting of this classic standard is a study in counterpoint and alternate harmony. Childers solos beautifully in this live performance taped in early stereo, but the arrangement is the star. Mulligan would later adapt this setting for a recording of his own big band in 1957.