Bob Wilber
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Biography
[Edit]Throughout his long career, Bob Wilber has done a lot to keep classic jazz alive. A bit misplaced (most jazz players of his generation were much more interested in bop and hard bop), Wilber (along with Kenny Davern, Ralph Sutton, and Dick Wellstood) was one of the few in his age group to stick to pre-bop music. In high school he formed a band that included Wellstood, and as a teenager he sat in at Jimmy Ryan's club in New York. Early on he became Sidney Bechet's protégé and led his own young group, the Wildcats (with whom he made his recording debut). The close association with the dominant Bechet led to a bit of a personality crisis in the 1950s as Wilber sought to find his own voice. He studied with Lennie Tristano and formed the Six, a group that tried to modernize early jazz. When that ended, he played Dixieland with Eddie Condon, and in 1957 joined Bobby Hackett's band for a year. Wilber freelanced throughout the 1960s, in 1968 became a founding member of the World's Greatest Jazz Band, and in 1973 he formed Soprano Summit with Kenny Davern, one of the top swing-oriented groups of the decade. A few years later the band broke up and Wilber teamed up with his wife, singer Pug Horton, in Bechet Legacy (which also featured either Glenn Zottola or Randy Sandke on trumpet).
In addition, Bob Wilber has worked with the New York Jazz Repertory Company, released music on his own Bodeswell label, wrote the authentic soundtrack to the movie The Cotton Club (1984), in 1988 led a band at Carnegie Hall to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Benny Goodman's famous concert, and authored his frank memoirs, Music Was Not Enough. Influenced on soprano, clarinet, and alto by respectively Bechet, Goodman, and Johnny Hodges, Wilber has long had his own sound on each of his instruments. He recorded frequently through the years for many labels, including Arbors in the '90s and 2000s.
Title: Soprano Summit (Remastered) [Bonus Track Version]
Artist: Bob Wilber, Kenny Davern
Genre: Jazz
Title: Soprano Summit In Concert
Artist: Ray Brown, Bob Wilber, Kenny Davern, Ken Davern, Marty Grosz, Jake Hanna
Title: Complete Live At The Voyager Room 1956 / 58 With Bob Wilber (CD2)
Artist: Bob Wilber
Genre: Jazz
Title: Blowin the Blues Away - The Bob Wilber Quintet featuring Clark Terry
Artist: Bob Wilber
Genre: Jazz
Title: Soprano Summit (feat. Marty Grosz, Eddie de Haas, Bob Cousins)
Artist: Bob Wilber, Kenny Davern
Genre: Jazz
Title: The Chicago Jazz Giants Live! (Remastered)
Artist: Wild Bill Davison, Ralph Sutton, Bob Wilber, Isla Eckinger, Cliff Leeman, Eddie Hubble
Genre: Jazz
Collections
Title: Vocal Jazz Ballads 2012 (Extended Version)
Genre: Jazz
Title: Blues 'n' Jazz (Extended Version)
Genre: Jazz, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: A Chiaroscuro Christmas
Genre: Jazz
Title: Tomorrow's Jazz Classics - Nagel Heyer 2001/2002
Genre: Jazz
Title: Arbors Records Sampler, Vol. 1
Genre: Jazz
Title: Blues of Summer (Special Edition)
Genre: Jazz
Title: Jazz Strikes Back - the 2. Sampler
Genre: Jazz
Title: Jazz Strikes Back - the 1. Sampler
Genre: Jazz
Title: Jazz the Morning After
Genre: Jazz
Title: For Dancers Only! - A Lindy Hop Compilation (Remastered)
Genre: Jazz
Title: Stuyvesant Casino Nights
Genre: Jazz
Title: Jammin' at Rudi's
Genre: Jazz
Title: Swinging Christmas 2012
Genre: Club/Dance, DJ/Remixes
Title: Hot Jazz In Denmark Vol. 4
Genre: Jazz
Featuring albums
Title: What Swing Is All About...
Artist: Mark Shane, Antti Sarpila, Phil Flanigan, Joe Ascione Bob Wilber
Genre: Jazz
