Von "Bob" Whitlock, a West Coast jazz bassist and the last surviving original member of the Gerry Mulligan Quartet who joined the influential piano-less group in the summer of 1952, died on June 29 in Long Beach, Calif., of a stroke. He was 84. [Bob Whitlock picture above, bottom center, on cover of album rotated on its side]
Without a piano in the Mulli…
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