Bob Wilber, jazz musician and devoted pupil of Sidney Bechet who won a Grammy for recreating Duke Ellington’s sound for the film ‘The Cotton Club’ – obituary
Bob Wilber, the clarinettist and saxophonist, who has died aged 91, was devoted to preserving jazz styles of the past, their techniques, forms and spirit. Wilber began in his early teens. When he was about to leave school, his father asked him whether he proposed spending his life “blowing his lungs …
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