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Date of Birth
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06-April-1927
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Place of Birth
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Queens Village
(Queens, New York City, New York metropolitan area, New York)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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Garry Mulligan, Gerald Joseph "Gerry" Mulligan, Gerald Mulligan, Joseph Mulligan, Gerald Joseph Mulligan, Jeru, Gerry Mullingan
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Profession
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Composer, Saxophonist, Clarinetist, Music Arranger, Actor
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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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