Gerald Wilson Orchestra
About the artist
Gerald Stanley Wilson was born Sept. 04, 1918 in Shelby, Mississippi. He played trumpet and was active in the jazz seen in the 1940s - 2000s. He is mainly known in Los Angeles and the West Coast jazz scenes. In 1932, he moved with his family from Memphis to Detroit. In Detroit, he studied music in high school and played with the Plantation Music Orchestra. Eventually, Wilson would write scores for Ellington, Basie, and Gillespie. In the fifties
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- Equinox
- California Soul
- So What
- Sax Chase
- Jingle Bells
- Bluies For Yna Yna
- Viva Tirado
- The Feather
- Blues On Belle Isle
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- Love For Sale
- Lakeshore Drive
- Aram
- Caprichos
- Jeri
- Lighthouse Blues
- Everywhere
- Paco
- Cass Tech
- Detroit
- Miss Gretchen
- Milestones
- Musette
- Dissonance In Blues
- The Golden Sword
- Groovin' High
- Nancy Jo
- The Detroit River
- I Concentrate on You
- A.E.N.
- Light My Fire
- Cruisin' With Cab
- Monterey Moods Suite: I. Allegro
- Before Motown
- The Mini Waltz
- Man Of La Mancha
- Scorpio Rising
- Well, Son, Shuffle
- Aquarius
- Bluesnee
- California Soul - Remastered 2000
- The Breeze And I
- Lomelin
- Jammin' in C
- Teri
- The Serpent
- Paco - Remastered 2000
- Blues for Yna Yna
- Celestial Soul
- Pisces
- State Street Sweet
- 'Round Midnight
- Sunshine Of Your Love
- Blues For The Count
- Well, Son, Shuffle (Remastered 2000)
- La Mentira (The Lie)
- Blues For Manhattan (The Diminished Triangle)
- Blues Latinese
- Dorian (The Diminished Triangle)
- Ravi
- Variation On a Theme By Giacomo Puccini
- Josefina
- Moment Of Truth
- Theme For Monterey
- You Better Believe It
- The Feather (From "Teatihuacan Suite")
- You, Me and Now
- Chanson Du Feu Follet (Song Of The Mad Fire)
- Mi Corazon (My Heart)
- Come Back to Sorrento
- Channel Island
- A.E.N
- Russian River
- Monterey Moods Suite: VII. Hard Swing
- Virgo
- A Jazz Mecca
- Down Here On The Ground
- Variations on Clair de Lune
- Lullaby From Rosemary's Baby
- Monterey Moods Suite: II. Jazz Swing Waltz
- Perdido
- The Serpent (From "Teatihuacan Suite")
- Monterey Moods Suite: III. Ballad
- M Capetillo
- Eric
- September Sky
- Allegro
- Monterey Moods Suite: IV. Latin Swing
- Little Bit Of Soul
- Ray's Vision At The U (The Diminished Triangle)
- Yvette
- Yesterlove
- Do Anything You Wanna
- Dorian
- El Presidente
- Watermelon Man
- Monterey Moods Suite: V. Blues
- Freddie Freeloader
- Variation on a Theme by Igor Stravinsky
- Baby, Baby Don't You Cry
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