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Bob Wilber
Bob Wilber (born 15 March 1928) is an internationally recognized American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist and band leader living in Chipping Campden, England. Although his scope covers a wide range of jazz, Wilber has been 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, Benny Goodman, Sidney Bechet, Jack Teagarden and Eddie Condon. In the late 1960s, he was an original member of the ''World's Greatest Jazz Band'', and in the early 70s, of Soprano Summit, a band which gained wide attention. In the late 1970s, he formed the ''Bechet Legacy Band'' and remains an active player, composer, and teacher.
Wilber was active in jazz education, including working as director of the ''Smithsonian Jazz Repertory Ensemble''. He has written for films, including ''The Cotton Club''. In his autobiography, ''Music Was Not Enough,'' he recounts his privileged childhood, pivotal meeting with his mentor, Sidney Bechet in 1946, and subsequent struggles as a musician in the 1950s and 1960s.
==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).〕 Robert "Bob" Wilber grew up in a musical household and first became interested in jazz when, at the age of three, his father brought home the original Victor recording of Duke Ellington's "Mood Indigo." In 1935, Wilber moved to Scarsdale, NY and at the age of thirteen he began formal clarinet study under his first teacher: clarinetist Willard Briggs.〔 At that time, he began listening to jazz from New Orleans, Kansas City, and Chicago by such greats as Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Eddie Condon, and Frank Teschemacher. Wilber began playing jazz in high school and with his jazz-loving friends formed a "hot club," listening and jamming to records.
Bob Wilber graduated from high school in 1945. While his parents wanted him to pursue the "Ivy League route," Bob was set on becoming a musician. Bob attempted to further his education and compromise with his parents by attending the Eastman School in Rochester, NY in the fall of 1945.〔 However, after one term at the Eastman School, Bob decided to drop out and move back to the city, to "hang out on Fifty-second Street and in the Village."〔
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