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Joe Wilder Quartet

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Recorded in New Jersey, January 19, 1956 by the "Joe Wilder Quartet."

Personnel:

Joe Wilder, trumpet
Hank Jones, piano
Wendell Marshall, bass
Kenny Clarke, drums

Son of Philadelphia bassist and bandleader Curtis Wilder, Joseph Wilder first began performing on the "Parisian Tailor's Colored Kiddies of the Air" radio show at the Lincoln Theater backed by jazz bands including those of Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong.

At age nineteen he enrolled at the Mastbaum School of Music but gave up on his classical studies and returned to jazz joining his first touring band led by Les Hite.

He worked in the prominent bands of Jimmie Lunceford, Lucky Millinder, Noble Sissle, Dizzy Gillespie and finally the "Count Basie Orchestra" during 1940s and '50s.

In 1956 Joe began recording as the leader of his own quartet releasing his debut "Wilder N' Wilder."

He proceeded to release three more LPs throughout the 1950s and in 1957 started doing studio work in New York for ABC TV in conjunction with performing in pit orchestras for Broadway musicals until the mid-'70s.

In addition he worked as a side man for Gil Evans, Hank Jones, and Benny Goodman and, favored by vocalists, played for Billie Holiday and Lena Horne.

After a thirty year break from recording as leader he released the first of three comeback albums "Alone With Just My Dreams" for Evening Star Records in 1991.

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