The Music of Gerry Mulligan and John Lewis

Cool jazz had less to do with relative hipness than with compositions that valued harmonic sophistication over stormy velocity and cutting contests. Still, any way you want to define it, there's no denying that baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan and pianist John Lewis were among the coolest bandleaders in jazz history; tonight, Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra take a loving trawl through their influential oeuvres.