Joe Wilder
Trumpeter Wilmer Wise sends this link:
With Bucky Pizzarelli, guitar/music director; Rufus
Reid, bass; Russ Kassoff and Bill Charlap (7:30pm only), piano; Ed Laub,
guitar; Warren Vache, Jimmy Owens, Brandon Lee, trumpet; and Loren
Schoenberg, tenor saxophone
We are proud to host a tribute to trumpeter and living legend Joe
Wilder on the week of his 92nd birthday. Over the course of his career,
Wilder regularly worked with a virtually incomparable list of jazz
icons, including Lionel Hampton, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman, Billie
Holiday, Benny Carter, Tony Bennett, Yusef Lateef, Gil Evans, and Hank
Jones. One of the first thousand black Marines to serve during World War
II, Wilder eventually became Assistant Bandmaster for the headquarters’
band. He enjoyed decades of first-call status as a studio musician and
live jazz performer. For his impact on the history of American music–and
especially for furthering jazz’s influence on the development of the
music industry–his legacy as a national treasure is more than deserved.
Join Wilder at Dizzy’s as some of his favorite musicians pay him
tribute.
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