1.   Billy Higgins, one of the best-loved and most-recorded drummers in postwar jazz, died Thursday at a hospital in Inglewood, Calif.

2.   Mulligan was one of the great improvisers of postwar jazz.

3.   Most of the major figures in black postwar Los Angeles jazz came from two high schools, Jefferson and Jordan.

4.   When postwar jazz reached into free form and extended-chord harmonies, it seemed to arrive at a limit and snap.