{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Mainstream of Jazz | type = studio | artist = Gerry Mulligan Sextet | cover = Mainstream of Jazz.jpg | released = 1956 | recorded = January 25 and September 26, 1956 | studio = | genre = Jazz | length = 54:18 | label = EmArcy | producer = | chronology = Gerry Mulligan | prev_title = Presenting the Gerry Mulligan Sextet | prev_year = 1955 | next_title = Recorded in Boston at Storyville | next_year = 1956 }}
'''''Mainstream of Jazz''''' is an album led by American jazz baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan with tracks recorded in 1956 which were released by EmArcy.<ref>[http://www.jazzdisco.org/mercury-records/catalog-emarcy-36100-series/#mg-36101 EmArcy Records discography] accessed October 4, 2012</ref><ref name="Mulligan discography">[http://www.gerrymulligan.com/wp-content/uploads/GMD-2011.pdf Gerry Mulligan Discography] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120422151434/http://www.gerrymulligan.com/wp-content/uploads/GMD-2011.pdf |date=2012-04-22 }} accessed February 23, 2016</ref>
==Reception== {{Music ratings | rev1 = ''Down Beat'' | rev1Score = {{Rating|5}}<ref>Down Beat: May 2, 1957 Vol. 24, No. 9</ref> | rev2 = ''Allmusic'' | rev2Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name="Allmusic"/> }} Allmusic awarded the album 4 stars stating "this was a classic West Coast style jazz band and each of its recordings are worth acquiring".<ref name="Allmusic">Yanow, S. [http://www.allmusic.com/album/mainstream-of-jazz-mw0000188582 Allmusic Review] accessed October 4, 2012</ref>
==Track listing== ''All compositions by Gerry Mulligan except as indicated'' # "Elevation" (Elliot Lawrence, Mulligan) - 6:51 # "Mainstream" - 6:49 # "Ain't It the Truth" (Count Basie) - 5:23 # "Igloo" (Jerry Lloyd) - 6:57 # "Blue at the Roots" - 5:46 # "Lollypop" (Chico Hamilton, Gerald Wiggins) - 5:48 *Recorded in New York City on January 25, 1956 (tracks 2 & 3) and September 26, 1956 (tracks 1 & 4–6)
== Personnel == * Gerry Mulligan – baritone saxophone, piano * Jon Eardley – trumpet (2,3) * Don Ferrara – trumpet (1,4-6) * Bob Brookmeyer – valve trombone * Zoot Sims – tenor saxophone * Bill Crow – double bass (1–4,6) * Peck Morrison - double bass (5) * Dave Bailey – drums
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Category:1956 albums Category:Gerry Mulligan albums Category:EmArcy Records albums