Listen No. 22 - High Fidelity by Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker, Chico Hamiton, Buddy Collette, Gerald Wiggins

Record number 22: Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker, Chico Hamiton, Buddy Collette, Gerald Wiggins

Genre: Jazz, West Coast  jazz

Context:  A 1966 release from the budget label Crown Records. More on Crown here.

Notable facts:   Gerry Mulligan served jail time in the ‘50s for possession of heroin. There’s a lot of evidence that drug mafia went out of their way to push heroin into the jazz world from the 1940s onwards. The article below explains more:

My favourite track:  Gerald’s Train by Gerald Wiggins and also Lights Out.

What critics made of it: no reviews online, but all the tracks here are well-regarded.

Listening to this inspired me to: read more on the Mafia and jazz.