More Never Recorded Arrangements for Benny Goodman
Released: Nov 4, 2003
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Released: Nov 4, 2003
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Bob Wilber and these French people should have gotten some sort of humanitarian award from the United Nations for giving the world Vol. 1, which was devoted to the many arrangements devised by...
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Fletcher Henderson's Unrecorded Arrangements for Benny Goodman
Released: May 16, 2000
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Released: May 16, 2000
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Fletcher Henderson was always Benny Goodman's favorite arranger. He contributed many charts for BG's big band from 1934 up until 1947, and Goodman revived quite a few of the arrangements in later...
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Everywhere You Go There's Jazz
Released: May 4, 1999
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Released: May 4, 1999
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Wilber has been heard with smaller ensembles, so it's good to find him with a larger, more interactive group -- a diversely bred bunch of Dixieland-to-swing mavens. Swedes Bent Persson...
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A Perfect Match: A Tribute to Hodges & Wild Bill Davis
Released: Jun 9, 1998
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Released: Jun 9, 1998
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In the 1960s altoist Johnny Hodges and organist Wild Bill Davis recorded eight albums together, several of which included trombonist Lawrence Brown. This 1997 set sounds very similar to that band...
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Reunion at Arbors
Released: May 5, 1998
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Released: May 5, 1998
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Although this CD was released under the co-leadership of Bob Wilber and Kenny Davern, in reality it was an augmented version of Soprano Reunion, an outgrowth of Soprano Summit. Magic always seems...
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Nostalgia
Released: Oct 7, 1996
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Released: Oct 7, 1996
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With a few exceptions, the emphasis is on slower tempos on this generally wistful and lyrical set. Bob Wilber (sticking to soprano) is assisted by the great stride pianist Ralph Sutton, guitarist...
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