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RIP Bob Wilber (1928-2019)

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Topic: RIP Bob Wilber (1928-2019)

Posted By: snobb
Subject: RIP Bob Wilber (1928-2019)
Date Posted: 07 Aug 2019 at 7:06am

Reports reach us that clarinettist, saxophonist, arranger and educator Robert Sage (Bob) Wilber died on Sunday 4 August at the age of 91.

This http://riverwalkjazz.stanford.edu/program/summit-through-years-bob-wilber-and-friends" rel="nofollow - biography on the Stanford University website sums up the main points of a long and illustrious musical career, from meeting Sidney Bechet as a teenager…Wilber’s Rainbow Room residency in the 1980s is the stuff of legend. Dizzyfingers, a 1980 tribute to Benny Goodman, is a fetish album for clarinettists. Soprano Summit with Kenny Davern also produced some very strong albums. His Ellington re-creations for Coppola’s film Cotton Club are masterly and he was invited to run projects in his later years by the Smithsonian Institute and Lincoln Center, notably https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/30/arts/music/30good.html" rel="nofollow - a centenary tribute to Benny Goodman in May 2009

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/30/arts/music/30good.html" rel="nofollow - from https://londonjazznews.com