{"id":383,"date":"2009-01-21T18:51:49","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T16:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doublebassguide.com\/?p=383"},"modified":"2009-01-21T18:51:49","modified_gmt":"2009-01-21T16:51:49","slug":"whitey-mitchell-%e2%80%a0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/?p=383","title":{"rendered":"Whitey Mitchell \u2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gordon \u201cWhitey\u201d Mitchell, jazz bassist and comedy writer, died Friday after a battle with cancer. He was 76. Whitey Mitchell, brother of the late jazz great Red Mitchell, started his jazz career in New York playing bass with big band legends Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa and Lester Young on the Jazz at the Philharmonic series.<br \/>\nLater, Mitchell became a staff writer and story editor on \u201cGet Smart\u201d, Bob Hope\u2019s comedy TV specials and sit-coms as \u201cAll in the Family,\u201d \u201cThe Jeffersons,\u201d \u201cGood Times,\u201d \u201cThe Mary Tyler Moore Show,\u201d \u201cThe Odd Couple\u201d and \u201cMork and Mindy\u201d. He also wrote two books: his autobiography, \u201cHackensack to Hollywood: My Two Show Business Careers,\u201d and \u201cStar Walk: A Guide to the Palm Springs Walk of Stars.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gordon \u201cWhitey\u201d Mitchell, jazz bassist and comedy writer, died Friday after a battle with cancer. He was 76. Whitey Mitchell, brother of the late jazz great Red Mitchell, started his jazz career in New York playing bass with big band legends Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa and Lester Young on the Jazz at the Philharmonic series. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[72,73],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}