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Bob Whitlock

Born: January 21, 1931

Too Marvelous for Words

By Peggy Lee

Label: Peggy Lee
Released: 2026
Track listing: Too Marvelous for Words; My Ideal; My Future Just Passed; Somebody Loves Me; I Never Knew; Taking a Chance on Love; I May Be Wrong (But I Think You Are Wonderful); ’Deed I Do; Button Up Your Overcoat; You’re Mine, You; Mean to Me; What Can I Say After I Say I’m Sorry?; Try a Little Tenderness; I Got It Bad (And That Ain’t Good); I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues; Don’t Worry ’Bout Me; Let’s Call It a Day; It’s a Good Day; Oh, What a Beautiful Morning; Mountain Greenery; The Surrey with the Fringe on Top; People Will Say We’re in Love; Almost Like Being in Love; The Best Things in Life Are Free; Let There Be Love; Come Rain or Come Shine; Fools Rush In; My Romance; We Kiss in a Shadow; Speak Low; What’s New?; Bye Bye Blackbird; Autumn in New York; I Feel a Song Coming On; You; Me; From This Moment On; Them There Eyes; That Old Black Magic; You Do Something to Me; I Get a Kick Out of You; What Is This Thing Called Love?; Love Me or Leave Me; Just One of Those Things; Sans Souci; Hard-Hearted Hannah (The Vamp of Savannah); It Ain’t Necessarily So; Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea; Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive.

Peggy Lee: Too Marvelous for Words

by C. Michael Bailey
June 30, 2026

“Every musician in town wanted that gig... She got whoever she wanted, because she was so good."  --pianist Lou Levy, as quoted by James Gavin in Is That All There Is?: The Strange Life of Peggy Lee (Atria Books, 2014) Born Norma Deloris Egstrom in Jamestown, North Dakota, in 1920, Peggy Lee ...

The Gerry Mulligan 1950s Quartets

by Ian Patterson
August 15, 2023

The Gerry Mulligan 1950s Quartets Alyn Shipton240 Pages ISBN: 978-0197579763 Oxford University Press 2023 Several are the biographies of Gerry Mulligan, arguably jazz's most celebrated baritone saxophonist. None, however, have focused as specifically and as closely as this tome does on the quartets with which Mulligan made his name ...

Larry Dickson Jazz Quartet: Donora Autumn

by Jack Bowers
July 29, 2017

Baritone sax, trumpet, bass and drums: a lineup that may seem more than passably familiar to fans of small-group jazz in general and West Coast jazz in particular. The first of many piano-less quartets--and the one that remains the gold standard-- was the Gerry Mulligan / Chet Baker Quartet, formed in the early '50s with Bob ...

Bob Whitlock (1931-2015)

July 1, 2015

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 yesterday in Long Beach, Calif., of a stroke. He was 84. Without a piano in the Mulligan quartet, Bob had to work doubly hard to ...

Interview: Bob Whitlock (Part 3)

August 9, 2012

In the history of post-war jazz, Gerry Mulligan may well have been one of the finest all-around musicians, leaders and arrangers. But he wasn't the nicest guy in the world. Which is easy to understand. Constantly creating a vision, finding musicians to execute that vision and making a success of it—is akin to being the CEO ...

Interview: Bob Whitlock (Part 4)

August 9, 2012

For years, bassist Bob Whitlock has been blamed for getting Chet Baker hooked on heroin in 1952. Bob is named in several books as being the one who set Baker on his ruinous path. The problem is, according to Bob, it's not true. They were together when it happened, but Bob says he didn't encourage Baker ...

Interview: Bob Whitlock (Part 2)

August 7, 2012

Sixty years ago this month, the Gerry Mulligan Quartet was formed. Original members were Mulligan on baritone sax, Chet Baker on trumpet, Bob Whitlock on bass and Chico Hamilton on drums. Much of the credit for the group goes to Bob Whitlock. If not for him, the quartet may never have been—or at least not in ...

Interview: Bob Whitlock (Part 1)

August 6, 2012

Bassist Bob Whitlock is so far off the grid there isn't even a Wikipedia page for him or a tribute site. An original member of the piano-less Gerry Mulligan Quartet in 1952 and '53, Bob helped establish a new way of playing bass in a small group on the West Coast—light, bright and conversational rather than ...