Robert Sage Wilber (March 15, 1928 – August 4, 2019) was an American
jazz
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clarinetist, saxophonist, and
band leader
A bandleader is the leader of a music group such as a dance band, rock or pop band or jazz quartet. The term is most commonly used with a group that plays popular music as a small combo or a big band, such as one which plays jazz, blues, rhyth ...
. Although his scope covers a wide range of jazz, Wilber was a dedicated advocate of classic styles, working throughout his career to present traditional jazz pieces in a contemporary manner. He played with many distinguished jazz leaders in the 1950s and 1960s, including
Bobby Hackett
Robert Leo Hackett (January 31, 1915 – June 7, 1976) was a versatile American jazz musician who played swing music, Dixieland jazz and mood music, now called easy listening, on trumpet, cornet, and guitar. He played Swing with the bands ...
,
Benny Goodman
Benjamin David Goodman (May 30, 1909 – June 13, 1986) was an American clarinetist and bandleader, known as the "King of Swing". His orchestra did well commercially.
From 1936 until the mid-1940s, Goodman led one of the most popular swing bi ...
,
Sidney Bechet
Sidney Joseph Bechet ( ; May 14, 1897 – May 14, 1959) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer. He was one of the first important Solo (music), soloists in jazz, and first recorded several months before trumpeter Louis Ar ...
,
Jack Teagarden
Weldon Leo "Jack" Teagarden (August 20, 1905 – January 15, 1964) was an United States, American jazz Trombone, trombonist and singer. He led both of his bands himself and was a sideman for Paul Whiteman's orchestra. From 1946 to 1951, he played ...
and
Eddie Condon
Albert Edwin Condon (November 16, 1905 – August 4, 1973) was an American jazz banjoist, guitarist, and bandleader. A leading figure in Chicago jazz, he also played piano and sang. He also owned a self-named night club in New York City.
Early ...
. In the late 1960s, he was an original member of the
World's Greatest Jazz Band
The World's Greatest Jazz Band was an all-star jazz ensemble active from 1968 to 1978.
Dick Gibson founded the group at his sixth Jazz Party, an annual event. The group performed mostly Dixieland jazz and recorded extensively. It was co-led by Y ...
, and in the early '70s of
Soprano Summit, a band which gained wide attention. In the late 1970s, he formed the Bechet Legacy Band.
Wilber was active in jazz education, including working as director of the Smithsonian Jazz Repertory Ensemble. He wrote for films, including ''
The Cotton Club''. In his autobiography, ''Music Was Not Enough,'' he recounts his childhood, meeting his mentor Sidney Bechet, in 1946, and his struggles as a musician in the 1950s and 1960s. He died at the age of 91 in 2019.
Early life
Robert Sage Wilber, a "superb soprano saxophonist, a classic clarinetist, a gifted arranger and composer, and an invaluable preserver and enhancer of jazz tradition", was born in New York City on March 15, 1928.
[Balliett, Whitney. "Profiles: The Westchester Kids (Bob Wilber)", ''The New Yorker'' 53, no. 12 (1977).] He became interested in jazz at the age of three when his father brought home a recording of Duke Ellington's song "
Mood Indigo
"Mood Indigo" is a jazz song with music by Duke Ellington and Barney Bigard and lyrics by Irving Mills.
Composition
Although Irving Mills—Jack Mills's brother and publishing partner—took credit for the lyrics, Mitchell Parish claimed in a ...
". In 1935, the family moved to the affluent suburb of
Scarsdale, New York
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. At the age of thirteen, Wilber began formal clarinet study under his first teacher, Willard Briggs.
He began listening to jazz from New Orleans, Kansas City, and Chicago by
Duke Ellington
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American Jazz piano, jazz pianist, composer, and leader of his eponymous Big band, jazz orchestra from 1924 through the rest of his life.
Born and raised in Washington, D ...
,
Louis Armstrong
Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed "Satchmo", "Satch", and "Pops", was an American trumpeter and vocalist. He was among the most influential figures in jazz. His career spanned five decades and several era ...
,
Jelly Roll Morton
Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe ( Lemott, later Morton; c. September 20, 1890 – July 10, 1941), known professionally as Jelly Roll Morton, was an American blues and jazz pianist, bandleader, and composer of Louisiana Creole descent. Morton was jazz ...
,
Eddie Condon
Albert Edwin Condon (November 16, 1905 – August 4, 1973) was an American jazz banjoist, guitarist, and bandleader. A leading figure in Chicago jazz, he also played piano and sang. He also owned a self-named night club in New York City.
Early ...
, and
Frank Teschemacher. He played jazz in high school and with his friends formed a "hot club", listening and jamming to records. Wilber graduated from high school in 1945.
Although his parents wanted him to attend an Ivy League college, he was set on becoming a musician. He attempted to compromise with his parents by attending the
Eastman School of Music
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in Rochester, New York, in the fall of 1945.
But after one term at Eastman, he dropped out and moved back to New York City to "hang out on Fifty-second Street and in the Village".
The Wildcats
In 1945, Wilber formed the Wildcats, which included pianist
Dick Wellstood
Richard MacQueen Wellstood (November 25, 1927 – July 24, 1987) was an American jazz pianist.
Career
He was born in Greenwich, Connecticut, United States. Wellstood's mother was a graduate of the Juilliard School who played church organ. Wellst ...
and trombonist
Eddie Hubble
John Edgar Hubble II (April 6, 1928 – March 22, 2016) was an American jazz trombonist.
Hubble was born in Santa Barbara, California, and learned trombone from his father, who was also a professional trombonist in the Los Angeles area. Hubble mov ...
. The Wildcats were the first jazz group in New York to "do what
Lu Watters
Lucius Carl Watters (December 19, 1911 – November 5, 1989) was a trumpeter and bandleader of the Yerba Buena Jazz Band. Jazz critic Leonard Feather said, “The Yerba Buena band was perhaps the most vital factor in the reawakening of public in ...
and
Turk Murphy
Melvin Edward Alton "Turk" Murphy (December 16, 1915 – May 30, 1987) was an American trombonist and bandleader, who played traditional and Dixieland jazz.
Biography
He was born in Palermo, California, United States. Murphy served in the Navy ...
had been doing on the Coast – playing the music of the
Hot Five and the
Red Hot Peppers and the Creole Jazz Band."
The group performed regularly at
Jimmy Ryan's
Jimmy Ryan's was a jazz club in New York City, USA, located at 53 West 52nd Street, Manhattan, from 1934 to 1962 and 154 West 54th Street from 1962 to 1983. It was a venue for performances of Dixieland jazz.''Jazz A-Z'', by Peter Clayton & Pe ...
club over the next two years and was recorded in 1947 by Ramp-art Records. Wilber worked with some of the best traditional jazz musicians of the era, including
Muggsy Spanier
Francis Joseph "Muggsy" Spanier (November 9, 1901 – February 12, 1967) was an American jazz cornetist based in Chicago. He was a member of the Bucktown Five, pioneers of the "Chicago style" that straddled traditional Dixieland jazz and swi ...
,
Baby Dodds,
Danny Barker
Daniel Moses Barker (January 13, 1909 – March 13, 1994) was an American jazz musician, vocalist, and author from New Orleans. He was a rhythm guitarist for Cab Calloway, Lucky Millinder and Benny Carter during the 1930s.
One of Barker's earli ...
,
Bud Freeman,
Pee Wee Russell
Charles Ellsworth "Pee Wee" Russell (March 27, 1906 – February 15, 1969) was an American jazz musician. Early in his career he played clarinet and saxophones, but he eventually focused solely on clarinet.
With a highly individualistic and sp ...
,
George Wettling,
Jimmy McPartland,
Wild Bill Davison
William Edward Davison (January 5, 1906 – November 14, 1989), nicknamed "Wild Bill", was an American jazz cornetist. He emerged in the 1920s through his work playing alongside Muggsy Spanier and Frank Teschemacher in a cover band where they ...
, and
James P. Johnson.
Meeting Bechet
Sidney Bechet
Sidney Joseph Bechet ( ; May 14, 1897 – May 14, 1959) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer. He was one of the first important Solo (music), soloists in jazz, and first recorded several months before trumpeter Louis Ar ...
was one of the most accomplished and influential musicians of the post World War I period and was viewed by many as the best clarinetist of his time. Nevertheless, Bechet's primary instrument eventually became the
soprano saxophone
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. In 1944, Wilber had become fascinated with Bechet's sound, and later that year, when Wilber was sixteen, he was introduced to Bechet through
Mezz Mezzrow. He found out there was an opening for a pupil out at Bechet's house in Brooklyn, and so he became a Bechet pupil. In the spring of 1945, he began studying both clarinet and soprano saxophone under Bechet and eventually lived with him for several months. He often sat in with Bechet at Jimmy Ryan's and they often performed duets. In 1948, Bechet sent Wilber to
Nice, France
Nice ( ; ) is a city in and the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes departments of France, department in France. The Nice urban unit, agglomeration extends far beyond the administrative city limits, with a population of nearly one million , in his absence to perform at the first jazz festival.
At the festival, Wilber's group shared the bill with Louis Armstrong and his Allstars. Wilber recorded for
,
Commodore
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Ranks
* Commodore (rank), a naval rank
** Commodore (Royal Navy), in the United Kingdom
** Commodore (India), in India
** Commodore (United States)
** Commodore (Canada)
** Commodore (Finland)
** Commodore (Germany) or ' ...
, and Circle with Bechet and with his own group in the late 1940s.
Boston era
In 1948, Wilber formed a trio to play at intermissions at the Savoy Café in Boston. The trio featured traditional New Orleans-style jazz (
dixieland
Dixieland jazz, also referred to as traditional jazz, hot jazz, or simply Dixieland, is a style of jazz based on the music that developed in New Orleans at the start of the 20th century. The 1917 recordings by the Original Dixieland Jass Band ( ...
). Eventually, Wilber expanded the band to a sextet and was booked as the main attraction: Bob Wilber and the Dixieland Band. This group featured Wilber on clarinet and soprano sax, Henry Goodwin on trumpet,
Jimmy Archey on trombone,
Dick Wellstood
Richard MacQueen Wellstood (November 25, 1927 – July 24, 1987) was an American jazz pianist.
Career
He was born in Greenwich, Connecticut, United States. Wellstood's mother was a graduate of the Juilliard School who played church organ. Wellst ...
on piano, Johnny Fields on bass, and
Tommy Benford on drums.
[Box 2, Folder 6. Bob Wilber Papers, 1943–2006. Milne Special Collections & Archives, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH. May 11, 2015.] Wilber gained a strong following in Boston and the Savoy gig lasted through the better part of 1949. The Savoy also led to other opportunities to play in the New York City area through 1950, most notably at Jimmy Ryan's and the
Stuyvesant Hotel.
Bob Wilber continued playing right up until 2017.
Discography
As leader
* ''New Clarinet in Town'' (Classic Editions, 1960)
* ''For Saxes Only!'' (
Music Minus One
Music Minus One (MMO) was an American educational music company founded in Westchester, New York. The company released play-along albums intended to accompany a melodic instrument (or voice type, vocalist) as an aid for practicing.
Background
Mus ...
, 1962)
* ''Close as Pages in a Book'' with
Maxine Sullivan (Monmouth Evergreen, 1969)
* ''No More Blues'' (MMO Studios, 1972)
* ''Soprano Summit'' with
Kenny Davern
John Kenneth Davern (January 7, 1935 – December 12, 2006) was an American jazz clarinetist.
Biography
He was born in Huntington, Long Island, to a family of mixed Jewish and Irish-Catholic ancestry. His mother's family originally came from Vi ...
(World Jazz, 1974)
* ''Soprano Summit in Concert'' with Kenny Davern,
Marty Grosz
Martin Oliver Grosz (born February 28, 1930) is a German-born American jazz guitarist, banjoist, vocalist, and composer born in Berlin, Germany, the son of artist George Grosz. He performed with Bob Wilber and wrote arrangements for him. He has a ...
,
Ray Brown,
Jake Hanna (
Concord Jazz
Concord Jazz is a record company and label founded in 1973 by Carl Jefferson, the former owner of Jefferson Motors Lincoln Mercury dealership in Concord, California. The label was named after the city in the East San Francisco Bay area, and the ...
, 1976)
* ''Spreadin' Joy'' (Classic Jazz, 1976)
* ''Evolution of the Blues'' (Music Minus One, 1976)
* ''Bob Wilber and the Scott Hamilton Quartet'' (
Chiaroscuro
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, 1977)
* ''Sherman Shuffle'' with
Buddy Tate
George Holmes "Buddy" Tate (February 22, 1913 – February 10, 2001) was an American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist.
Biography
Tate was born in Sherman, Texas, United States, and first played the alto saxophone. According to the website All Ab ...
(
Sackville, 1978)
* ''In the Mood for Swing'' with
Lars Erstrand (
Phontastic, 1979)
* ''Dizzyfingers'' (Bodeswell, 1980)
* ''Reflections'' (Bodeswell, 1983)
* ''Django's Music'' with Mike Peters,
Bireli Lagrene (
Stash, 1985)
* ''Ode to Bechet'' (
Jazzology, 1986)
* ''Summit Reunion'' with Kenny Davern (Chiaroscuro, 1990)
* ''The Music of Hoagy Carmichael'' with Maxine Sullivan (
Audiophile
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, 1993)
* ''Summit Reunion 1992'' with Kenny Davern,
Milt Hinton
Milton John Hinton (June 23, 1910 – December 19, 2000) was an American double bassist and photographer.
Regarded as the Dean of American jazz bass players, his nicknames included "Sporty" from his years in Chicago, "Fump" from his time on the ...
,
Dick Hyman
Richard Hyman (born March 8, 1927) is an American jazz pianist and composer. Over a 70-year career, he has worked as a pianist, organist, arranger, music director, electronic musician, and composer. He was named a National Endowment for the Arts ...
,
Bucky Pizzarelli
John Paul "Bucky" Pizzarelli (January 9, 1926 – April 1, 2020) was an American jazz guitarist.
He worked for NBC as a staffman from 1964, including for Dick Cavett (1971) and ABC with Bobby Rosengarden in (1952). Musicians he collaborate ...
(Chiaroscuro, 1994)
* ''The Bob Wilber Dick Wellstood Duet'' (
Progressive, 1984)
* ''Horns A-Plenty'' (
Arbors, 1994)
* ''Bean: Bob Wilber's Tribute to Coleman Hawkins'' (Arbors, 1995)
* ''Nostalgia'' (Arbors, 1996)
* ''Bob Wilber's Bechet Legacy, The Hamburg Concert / Tribute to Legend'' (
Nagel Heuer Records GmbH, 1996)
* ''A Perfect Match'' with Dick Hyman (Arbors, 1998)
* ''You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet: Summit Reunion Plays Some Al Jolson Songs'' with Kenny Davern (Jazzology, 2000)
* ''Fletcher Henderson's Unrecorded Arrangements for Benny Goodman'' (Arbors, 2000)
* ''Summit Reunion in Atlanta'' with Kenny Davern (Jazzology, 2001)
* ''Benny Goodman Arrangements Volume 2'' (Arbors, 2003)
* ''Yearnings'' with Bobby Gordon (Arbors, 2003)
* ''Swinging the Changes'' with Nik Payton (Arbors, 2008)
* ''The Sidney Bechet Society Presents Bob Wilber & Dick Hyman'' (2009)
* ''Bob Wilber Is Here'' (Arbors, 2010)
* ''Rampage'' (Arbors, 2011)
* ''Birch Hall Concerts Live'' with
Glenn Zottola (Classic Jazz, 2013)
With Soprano Summit
* ''Chalumeau Blue'' (Chiaroscuro, 1976)
* ''The Meridian'' (Fat Cat's Jazz, 1977)
* ''Crazy Rhythm'' (Chiaroscuro, 1977)
* ''Live at Concord '77'' (Concord Jazz, 1978)
* ''Recorded Live at Iliana Jazz Club'' (
Storyville, 1996)
* ''1975...And More!'' (Arbors, 2008)
As sideman
With
Sidney Bechet
Sidney Joseph Bechet ( ; May 14, 1897 – May 14, 1959) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer. He was one of the first important Solo (music), soloists in jazz, and first recorded several months before trumpeter Louis Ar ...
* ''Creole Reeds'' (
Riverside, 1956)
* ''The Grand Master of the Soprano Saxophone and Clarinet'' (
Columbia, 1956)
With
Ruby Braff
Reuben "Ruby" Braff (March 16, 1927 – February 9, 2003) was an American jazz trumpeter and cornetist. Jack Teagarden was once asked about him on the Garry Moore television show and described Ruby as "the Ivy League Louis Armstrong".
Bra ...
* ''Holiday in Braff'' (
Bethlehem
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, 1955)
* ''Easy Now'' (
RCA Victor
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, 1959)
* ''Adoration of the Melody'' (Bethlehem, 1978)
* ''The Mighty Braff'' (Affinity, 1982)
With
Benny Goodman
Benjamin David Goodman (May 30, 1909 – June 13, 1986) was an American clarinetist and bandleader, known as the "King of Swing". His orchestra did well commercially.
From 1936 until the mid-1940s, Goodman led one of the most popular swing bi ...
* ''Happy Session'' (Columbia/CBS, 1959)
* ''Fascinating Rhythm'' (
Chess
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, 1980)
With
Bobby Hackett
Robert Leo Hackett (January 31, 1915 – June 7, 1976) was a versatile American jazz musician who played swing music, Dixieland jazz and mood music, now called easy listening, on trumpet, cornet, and guitar. He played Swing with the bands ...
* ''Hawaii Swings'' (
Capitol, 1960)
* ''Creole Cookin'' (
Verve
Verve may refer to:
Music
* The Verve, an English rock band
* '' The Verve E.P.'', a 1992 EP by The Verve
* ''Verve'' (R. Stevie Moore album)
* Verve Records, an American jazz record label
Businesses
* Verve Coffee Roasters, an American coffee h ...
, 1967)
* ''From the Jazz Vault'' (1979)
With
Dick Hyman
Richard Hyman (born March 8, 1927) is an American jazz pianist and composer. Over a 70-year career, he has worked as a pianist, organist, arranger, music director, electronic musician, and composer. He was named a National Endowment for the Arts ...
* ''Say It with Music'' (World Jazz, 1980)
* ''Jelly & James'' (Sony Masterworks, 1992)
With
Ralph Sutton
Ralph Earl Sutton (November 4, 1922 – December 30, 2001) was an American jazz pianist born in Hamburg, Missouri. He was a stride pianist in the tradition of James P. Johnson and Fats Waller.
Biography
Sutton was born in Hamburg, Missour ...
* ''The Night They Raided Sunnie's'' (Blue Angel Jazz Club, 1969)
* ''Live at Sunnie's Rendezvous Vol. 2'' (Storyville, 1999)
* ''Featuring Bob Wilber Vol. 3'' (Storyville, 2001)
With The World's Greatest Jazzband of
Yank Lawson &
Bob Haggart
Robert Sherwood Haggart (March 13, 1914 – December 2, 1998) was an American dixieland jazz double bass player, composer, and arranger. Although he is associated with dixieland, he was one of the finest rhythm bassists of the Swing Era.
Music ...
* ''The World's Greatest Jazzband of Yank Lawson and Bob Haggart'' (Project 3 Total Sound, 1969)
* ''Live at the Roosevelt Grill'' (
Atlantic
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, 1970)
* ''What's New?'' (Atlantic, 1971)
* ''Hark the Herald Angels Swing'' (1972)
* ''In Concert: Vol. 1 Massey Hall'' (World Jazz, 1973)
* ''Good News'' (
Signature
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, 1974)
* ''In Concert: Recorded Live at the Lawrenceville School'' (Flying Dutchman, 1976)
* ''At Manchester Trade Hall England 1971'' (Arbors, 2006)
With others
*
Louis Armstrong
Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed "Satchmo", "Satch", and "Pops", was an American trumpeter and vocalist. He was among the most influential figures in jazz. His career spanned five decades and several era ...
, Sidney Bechet, Kid Ory, ''Voyage a La Nouvelle Orleans'' (CBS, 1972)
*
Dick Cary, ''The Amazing Dick Cary'' (Circle, 1981)
*
Lee Castle, ''Dixieland Heaven'' (Davis, 1957)
*
Jim Chapin
James Forbes Chapin ( ) (July 23, 1919 – July 4, 2009) was an American jazz drummer and the author of books about jazz drumming. He is in the Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame and was posthumously inducted into the ''Modern Drummer'' Hall of ...
, ''Profile of a Jazz Drummer: Skin Tight'' (Classic Jazz, 1977)
*
Buck Clayton
Wilbur Dorsey "Buck" Clayton (November 12, 1911 – December 8, 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter who was a member of Count Basie's orchestra. His principal influence was Louis Armstrong, first hearing the record " Confessin' that I Love You" ...
, ''A Buck Clayton Jam Session Vol. 3: Jazz Party Time'' (Chiaroscuro, 1976)
*
Wild Bill Davison
William Edward Davison (January 5, 1906 – November 14, 1989), nicknamed "Wild Bill", was an American jazz cornetist. He emerged in the 1920s through his work playing alongside Muggsy Spanier and Frank Teschemacher in a cover band where they ...
, ''with Strings Attached'' (Columbia, 1957)
*
Duke Ellington
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American Jazz piano, jazz pianist, composer, and leader of his eponymous Big band, jazz orchestra from 1924 through the rest of his life.
Born and raised in Washington, D ...
, ''Symphony in Black'' (Smithsonian 1981)
*
Bud Freeman, ''Song of the Tenor'' (Philips, 1976)
*
Lionel Hampton
Lionel Leo Hampton (April 20, 1908 – August 31, 2002) was an American jazz vibraphonist, percussionist, and bandleader. He worked with jazz musicians from Teddy Wilson, Benny Goodman, and Buddy Rich, to Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, an ...
, ''At Newport '78''
*
Max Kaminsky, ''Ambassador of Jazz'' (Westminster, 1959)
*
Lou McGarity, ''Blue Lou'' (Argo, 1960)
*
Jimmy McPartland, ''Dixieland at Carnegie Hall'' (1958)
*
Jimmy McPartland, ''That Happy Dixieland Jazz'' (RCA, 1960)
*
Geoff Muldaur
Geoff Muldaur (born August 12, 1943) is an American singer, guitarist and composer, who was a founding member of the Jim Kweskin Jug Band and a member of Paul Butterfield's Better Days.
Career
Having established a reputation with the Kweskin J ...
, ''Is Having a Wonderful Time'' (Reprise, 1975)
*
Flip Phillips, ''Celebrates His 80th Birthday at the March of Jazz 1995'' (Arbors, 2003)
*
Rex Stewart
Rex William Stewart Jr. (February 22, 1907 – September 7, 1967) was an American jazz cornetist who was a member of the Duke Ellington orchestra.
Career
As a boy he studied piano and violin; most of his career was spent on cornet. Stewart dro ...
, ''Henderson Homecoming'' (United Artists, 1959)
*
Billy Strayhorn
William Thomas Strayhorn (November 29, 1915 – May 31, 1967) was an American jazz composer, pianist, lyricist, and arranger who collaborated with bandleader and composer Duke Ellington for nearly three decades. His compositions include "Take the ...
, ''Lush Life'' (Red Baron 1992)
*
Widespread Depression Orchestra, ''Rockin' in Rhythm'' (Phontastic, 1980)
Citations
General sources
* Wilber, Bob. ''Music Was Not Enough''. Oxford University Press, 1988.
* ''Encyclopedia of Popular Music''. Grove's Dictionaries, 1998.
Bob Wilber Papers, 1943–2006 University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
External links
*
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