Mulligan's "Walkin' Shoes" was written for his quartet and was later arranged for his Tentette album as well as for the Kenton band. Gerry liked to walk, whistled as he walked, gets into a tempo, and "possibly the melody came to me that way", he explained once in an interview.
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