Bob Whitlock R.I.P.

[Larry Kart]

Original bassist with the Gerry Mulligan Quartet and the one who introduced Mulligan to Chet Baker.

Fine interview with him from a few years back by Doug Ramsey:

http://www.jazzwax.com/2015/07/bob-whitlock-1931-2015.html

[GA Russell]

RIP.  I first heard his work with the Mulligan/Baker Mosaic box, and still connect him in my mind with it.

[mikeweil]

R.I.P. 

This kind of news rarely inspires me to have a listen, but in this case I pulled out the Mulligan-Baker Mosaic. The right man at the right place at the right time, for sure.

[mjzee]

Derek & The Dominoes, anyone?  Joe Cocker, Leon Russell?  Talk about second acts.  RIP.

[Larry Kart]

Oops -- That Whitlock interview was the work of Marc Myers.

[Jim R]

Derek & The Dominoes, anyone?  Joe Cocker, Leon Russell?  Talk about second acts.  RIP.

Huh?

[mjzee]

Derek & The Dominoes, anyone?  Joe Cocker, Leon Russell?  Talk about second acts.  RIP.

Huh?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_and_the_Dominos

If it's not the same Bobby Whitlock, please ignore.

[danasgoodstuff]

mjzee: 

 

Do the math, the Bobby Whitlock who played on D & the Ds was born in 1948, he would have been kneehigh to a grasshopper when the Mulligan Quartet sides were recorded.

[Justin V]

Inexplicably and indefensibly, despite being a Baker and Mulligan fan, I still don't have the original Mulligan quartet sides (yet I have two later reunion discs).  I do like Whitlock's playing with Chet Baker's quartet, and that Marc Meyers interview was an interesting read.  Rest in peace, Mr. Whitlock, and thank you for the music.

[BillF]

This EP (with Whitlock pictured on the right) loomed large in my final year at school (1957-58) when we didn't have much money to buy records and there weren't many to buy anyway. There was also a significant time lapse between American recording and availabilty in Britain, so that these 1952 tracks were still hot stuff at the time.