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Now available on Amazon.com! How Far? A Tale of Determination, DNA, and Drama by Bob Wilber (5 out of 5 Stars – 15 Customer Reviews) Price:
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I have a real affection for the recordings and performances of the New York Jazz Repertory Company: a floating all-star ensemble I saw in person in
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Writing about Kenny Davern and sharing people’s memories of him have left me wanting to share more, so I thought I might share this wonderful
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Feeling kind of punk? Down in the mouth? Are the Amazon cardboard boxes beginning to overwhelm you? Freezer door won’t stay shut? Phone
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To celebrate the publication of his book REALLY THE BLUES, Mezz Mezzrow was the star of a concert at New York’s Town Hall on January 1, 1947 as a
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Concord Academy, Concord, Mass., established 1922 for grades 9-12, enrollment less than 500 students. Surely I don’t understand upper-class
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Truth in advertising. The PERFECT JAZZ REPERTORY QUINTET actually was. It was one of those bands that actually lived up to its bold title, whether
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Truth in advertising. The PERFECT JAZZ REPERTORY QUINTET actually was. It was one of those bands that actually lived up to its bold title, whether
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Billy, at work / at play, at one of Joe Boughton’s Conneaut Lake jazz weekends. When I was compiling yesterday’s post — a conversation with
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Where it happened! The last of five splendid performances that took place at Jazz at Chautauqua, September 21, 2008, celebrating the hot music of the
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The scene of the gorgeous music, and now, the poignant memories: Where it happened! The inspiration: The reality, as created forty-eight years
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Where it happened! As JAZZ LIVES waves adieu to 2020, we continue with our series of five memorably hot performances created at Jazz at Chautauqua on
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The holy relic of 1940 . . . coming alive in the present tense, here: thanks to Bob Wilber, soprano saxophone; Jon-Erik Kellso, trumpet; Marty
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Evoking this, nearly seventy years later: in this wonderful place. Magical indeed. It was a Sunday morning, 10:30 or so, and perhaps half of the
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Bob Wilber with the superb drummer Bernard Flegar, after their gig in Bülach, Switzerland, June 11th 2005. My good friend, the swinging drummer and