What is Bob Wilber?
{{Infobox musical artist | name = Bob Wilber | image = Bob Wilber.jpg | caption = Bob Wilber at the [[North Sea Jazz Festival]] in the late 1970s | image_size = 250 | landscape = yes | background = non_vocal_instrumentalist | birth_name = Robert Sage Wilber | birth_place = [[New York City]], U.S. | birth_date = {{birth date|1928|03|15}} | death_date = {{death date and age|2019|08|04|1928|03|15}} | death_place =[[Chipping Campden, England]], U.K. | genre = [[Jazz]], [[dixieland]] | occupation = Musician | instrument = Saxophone, clarinet | years_active = 1940s–2010s | label = [[Arbors Records|Arbors]] | associated_acts = [[Kenny Davern]], [[Dick Hyman]], [[Soprano Summit]], [[World's Greatest Jazz Band]], [[Sidney Bechet]] }} '''Robert Sage Wilber''' (March 15, 1928 – August 4, 2019) was an American [[jazz]] clarinetist, saxophonist, and [[band leader]]. He was popular 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. Wilber died at the age of 91 in [[Chipping Campden, England]] on August 4, 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://syncopatedtimes.com/jazz-revival-clarinetist-bob-wilber-has-died/|title=Jazz Revival Clarinetist Bob Wilber has Died|last=Bebco|first=Joe|date=2019-08-06|website=The Syncopated Times|language=en-US|access-date=2019-08-06}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Wilber, Bob}} [[Category:1928 births]] [[Category:2019 deaths]] [[Category:American jazz musicians]] [[Category:American saxophonists]] [[Category:American clarinetists]] [[Category:Musicians from New York City]] {{US-bio-stub}}