Bob Whitlock (musician)
Bob Whitlock (January 21, 1931, Roosevelt, Utah - June 20, 2015, Long Beach, California) was an American jazz double-bassist. Von Varlynn Whitlock.
Background[]
Whitlock began playing bass as a teenager, and was active in Los Angeles as a session musician from the early 1950s, working with Gerry Mulligan, Art Pepper, Chet Baker, Stan Getz, Buddy DeFranco, Joe Albany, Jack Sheldon, Warne Marsh, and others. He also led his own small group late in the decade and attended the University of California. He worked in France in the early 1960s, playing with Zoot Sims, Vi Redd, Curtis Amy, and Victor Feldman. Later in the decade he worked with Joe Pass and extensively with George Shearing. In the 1970s he worked with Albany once again.
Discography[]
As sideman[]
- Joe Albany, The Right Combination (Riverside, 1958)
- Joe Albany, Proto-Bopper (Revelation, 1972)
- Curtis Amy, Tippin' On Through (Pacific Jazz, 1962)
- Victor Feldman, Stop the World I Want to Get Off (World Pacific, 1962)
- Victor Feldman, Soviet Jazz Themes (Ava, 1963)
- Stan Getz, And the Cool Sounds (Verve, 1957)
- Stan Getz, Stan Getz Plays (Verve, 1988)
- Peggy Lee, Pass Me By (Capitol, 1965)
- Joe Pass, Simplicity (World Pacific, 1967)
- Art Pepper, Surf Ride (Savoy, 1956)
- Art Pepper, Art Pepper & Sonny Redd (Regent, 1959)
- Vi Redd, Birdcall (United Artists, 1962)
- Zoot Sims, Zoot Sims in Paris (United Artists, 1962)
References[]
- "Bob Whitlock". The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. 2nd edition, ed. Barry Kernfeld.
Categories:
- American jazz double-bassists
- Male double-bassists
- 1931 births
- 2015 deaths
- Musicians from Utah
- People from Roosevelt, Utah
- University of California alumni
- American male jazz musicians
- American jazz musician stubs