Research Catalog

Title

Interview with Bob Wilber [videorecording].

Author

Wilber, Bob.

Publication

2009.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Friedwald, Will, 1961-
• Sapione, James.
• Jazz at Lincoln Center (Organization)
• Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Description

2 videodiscs (92 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Bob Wilber speaks with Will Friedwald about the end of the swing era and the rediscovery of New Orleans-style jazz; growing up in Scarsdale, New York; his first attraction to swing; the first time he heard Sidney Bechet; jazz concerts in high school; his father being a book publisher; attending the Eastman School of Music; wanting to leave Eastman; playing extended tours with Benny Goodman in 1958 and 1959; his relationship with Benny Goodman; transcribing Benny Goodman's solos and orchestrating them for the four clarinetists at the Jazz at Lincoln Center tribute; his work as a jazz arranger; his experience taking lessons from and working with Sidney Bechet; the Sidney Bechet School of Music in Brooklyn; his band in high school; studying with Lennie Tristano and Lee Konitz; Tristano's rejection of standard time signatures; importance of the earliest foundations of jazz; getting drafted into the ARMY and becoming bandleader of the ARMY band school; his relationship and work with the Soprano Summit; being able to apply traditional methods to modern music; Wynton Marsalis and honoring the traditions of jazz.

Series Statement

Duke jazz histories

Uniform Title

Duke jazz histories.

Subjects

• Clarinetists > Interviews
• Jazz musicians > Interviews
• Wilber, Bob > Interviews

Note

• Interview with Bob Wilber conducted by Will Friedwald, in New York, N.Y., on June 1, 2009.

Event (note)

• This interview was videotaped at the Oral History Studio of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in New York on June 1, 2009, by James Sapione.

Funding (note)

• Recording made possible by a grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

System Details (note)

• DVD.

Call Number

*LDV 1251

OCLC

495195297

Author

Wilber, Bob. Interviewee

Title

Interview with Bob Wilber [videorecording].

Imprint

2009.

Series

Duke jazz histories

Duke jazz histories.

Event

This interview was videotaped at the Oral History Studio of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in New York on June 1, 2009, by James Sapione.

Funding

Recording made possible by a grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

System Details

DVD.

Added Author

Friedwald, Will, 1961- Interviewer

Sapione, James. Videographer

Jazz at Lincoln Center (Organization)

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Research Call Number

*LDV 1251