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Author: Will at UNH
Date: 1999-01-23 06:14
Bob Wilbur is Coming to UNH this weekend. I'm really excited to meet him because he studied with the great Buchet and I love the few recordings I have of his. Does anyone have any information or specific questions that I could ask since I don't know alot of jazz history. I don't want to seem dumb if I get to hang out with Bob Wilbur.
Thanks
Will
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Author: Stephanie aka Benny
Date: 1999-01-23 13:32
Clarinet players are people too, ask him just normal stuff in adition to jazz. You won't seem stupid.....he is human too.
~Keep Swinging~
Benny 
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Author: charles
Date: 1999-01-23 16:14
first of all the name is BECHET not buchet. Bob studied jazz with Bechet in New York and at one point sounded similar to Bechet, vibrato and phrasing. Later on he switched to a curbed soprano as they were more in tune than the straight ones. Bob came to Paris in 1948 with Mezz Mezzrow at the Nice festival. Later on Bechet came to France where he stayed until his death. Bob is a nice man who will talk to you freely. He can play New Orleans music as well as Modern jazz. We have a common friend in Paris where I come from and played New Orleans jazz in my youth.His name is Maxime Saury Anyway I think that you should listen to some Bechet recordings. I think that Bechet, Armstrong. Ellington and Charlie Parker had the greatest influence in jazz. Bob made some recordings with Bechet in the fourties and when they play they are difficult to distinguish. Good luck
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Author: John Dean
Date: 1999-01-25 21:37
Hi Will,
Would be grateful if you could ask what his clarinet set up is. There is some debate on the Selmer web site as to whether he plays an old Selmer Balanced Tone or later Centered Tone. Phil woods says he plays a BT but someone else says he plays a CT! Now apparently a CD note says he has Leblanc LL. Might also be interesting to find his views on mouthpieces since I have seen him with several different makes!Also does he play Conn, Martin or Buescher soprano since he has reported to have changed recently.
Something to chat about there!
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Author: John M
Date: 1999-01-27 02:53
First thing you ought to know is that it is the great Sydney Bechet. Check your spelling. Then you can look up some his history in the library or on the internet. He spent little of his life in America because he had problems with the Law. Most of his time was spent in France, where most of his great music was composed and played. Only a few contemporary jazz reedmen can do his work justice. Among those are Pieter Meijers, Bob Draga and Lance Acker. His work sounds best on a soprano sax, tho' some clarinetists (Draga) do it justice with a soprano clarinet.
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Author: Will at UNH
Date: 1999-01-30 05:15
Bob Wilbur Plays on a Selmer Series L from the 1930s, he has a matching A one serial no. away. He uses the Vandoren Optimum ligature, and I cant remember the name of the guy who made his crystal mouthpiece. I dont know about the saxes, he used a straight and a curved soprano.
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Author: John Dean
Date: 1999-02-02 19:40
Thanks Will. That solves the Wilber clarinet mystery! I wonder if it was a Pomarico crystal m.piece?
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