Gerry Mulligan
Cool jazz, Musical Artist
1927 – 1996
Who was Gerry Mulligan?
Gerald Joseph "Gerry" Mulligan was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, composer and arranger. Though Mulligan is primarily known as one of the leading baritone saxophonists in jazz history – playing the instrument with a light and airy tone in the era of cool jazz – he was also a notable arranger, working with Claude Thornhill, Miles Davis, Stan Kenton, and others. Mulligan's pianoless quartet of the early 1950s with trumpeter Chet Baker is still regarded as one of the more important cool jazz groups. Mulligan was also a skilled pianist and played several other reed instruments.
In 1974 Mulligan met his future wife, Countess Franca Rota Borghini Baldovinetti, in Milan, Italy.
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- Born
- Apr 6, 1927
Queens Village - Also known as
- Garry Mulligan
- Gerald Mulligan
- Joseph Mulligan
- Gerald Joseph "Gerry" Mulligan
- Gerald Joseph Mulligan
- Jeru
- Gerry Mullingan
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Countess Franca Rota Borghini Baldovinetti
(1976 - 1996/01/19) - Arlyne Brown Mulligan
(1954 - 1956) - Jeffie Mulligan
(1952 - 1954) - Sandy Dennis
(1965 - 1974) - Judy Holliday
( - 1965/06/07)
- Countess Franca Rota Borghini Baldovinetti
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- West Philadelphia Catholic High School for Boys
- Lived in
- New Jersey
- Ohio
- Kalamazoo
- Reading
- Darien
- Marion
- Queens
- Died
- Jan 20, 1996
Darien
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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