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Gerry Mulligan

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2001 - The Saxophone Player

1996 - Legacy

1993 - Gerry Mulligan Paul Desmond Quartet

1993 - Gerry Mulligan Quartet & Chubby Jackson Big Band

1992 - Compact Jazz: Gerry Mulligan

1992 - Re-Birth of the Cool

1992 - Walk on the Water

1991 - Mulligan Meets Monk

1991 - Getz Meets Mulligan in Hi-Fi

1988 - California Concerts, Volume 1

1988 - Reunion With Chet Baker and the Gerry Mulligan Quartet

1987 - 1974

1986 - Soft Lights and Sweet Music

1985 - Gerry Mulligan Meets the Saxophonists

1983 - Little Big Horn

1976 - Night Lights

1976 - Gerry Mulligan Meets Enrico Intra

1974 - Summit: Reunión cumbre

1968 - Blues Roots

1963 - '63: The Concert Jazz Band

1962 - Jeru

1962 - Two of a Mind

1959 - Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster

1956 - Modern Sounds

1955 - Mainstream

1951 - Mulligan Plays Mulligan

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1 Male

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Queens, New York, USA

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Jazz

Style
Jazz

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Born

1927

Active
--- 1996

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Gerry Mulligan - My Funny Valentine
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Gerry Mulligan - Chelsea Bridge
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Gerry Mulligan - Prelude in E Minor
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Gerry Mulligan - Bernie's Tune

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Gerald Joseph "Gerry" Mulligan (April 6, 1927 – January 20, 1996) 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. Mulligan reportedly had a relationship with actress Judy Holliday until she died in 1965, and with actress Sandy Dennis from 1965 through 1973. In 1974 Mulligan met his future wife, Countess Franca Rota Borghini Baldovinetti, in Milan, Italy.

Throughout Mulligan's orchestral work and until the end of his life, Mulligan maintained an active career performing and recording jazz - usually with a quartet that included a piano. Mulligan died in Darien, Connecticut on January 20, 1996 at the age of 68 following complications from knee surgery. His widow Franca (to whom he had been married since 1976) said he had also been suffering from liver cancer. Upon Mulligan's death, his library and numerous personal effects (including a gold-plated Conn baritone saxophone) were given to the Library of Congress.