
AP Obit It's hard to think of anything else in music that gave me as much of a thrill on first discovery as "All About Rosie." But that thrill was magnified tenfold (I am not exaggerating) when I heard the later recording by the Gerry Mulligan Concert Jazz Band, with Mel Lewis on drums -- the original 1957 version does not really do justice to the immense power of this piece (the famous Bill Evans solo piano break notwithstanding). "All About Rosie" is one of the most kinetic and propulsive [...]