ROANOKE TIMES
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DATE: Sunday, January 21, 1996 TAG: 9601220112
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-5 EDITION: METRO
DATELINE: NEW YORK
TYPE: NEWS OBIT
SOURCE: Associated Press
Baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan, a versatile jazz musician who worked with Dave Brubeck, Miles Davis and Duke Ellington, died Saturday morning. He was 68.
Mulligan died at his home in Darien, Conn., from complications from a knee infection, said his wife, Franca Mulligan.
He helped create the cool jazz movement but was also at home in big band, bebop and Dixieland. Mulligan, also a bandleader and composer, recorded with a variety of well-known musicians in different styles.
``It'll be a real loss because he was such an inspiration,'' said Brubeck, in Cincinnati on Saturday for a concert. ``He just had such a grasp of what to do when he was playing.
``There were so many things Jerry still wanted to do musically,'' the pianist said. ``It's a real shame. He won't be around to do them.''
Mulligan was born April 6, 1927, in New York and grew up in Philadelphia. He wrote arrangements for Johnny Warrington's radio band as a teen-ager and wrote for Gene Krupa's band after moving back to New York in 1946.
He became part of the cool jazz movement and took part in Davis' recordings in 1949 and 1950
Mulligan performed through 1995.
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