http://youtube.com/watch?v=fA_VlW5XvXQ&feature=related
It sure looks like a Vandoren to me. It's not the Gale. B35 or B75?
It sure looks like a Vandoren to me. It's not the Gale. B35 or B75?
I remember seeing him make a comment in liner notes or somewhere that Jean Paul had made some mouthpieces that he thought would work for him but then it seems that the repaired Gale held together.
It's hard to judge tone sometimes with youtube but it seems to me that the Vandoren doesn't have quite the same roundness to the tone that the Gale had.
In the Birth of The Cool scores that I just picked up there's a picture of Mulligan with his feet stretched out as he sits in a metal chair looking very relaxed. The interesting thing is that it looks like he's playing a metal berg!