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Softly, with feeling : Joe Wilder and the breaking of barriers in American music / Edward Berger ; foreword by Wynton Marsalis.

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In this biography the author tells trumpeter Joe Wilder's remarkable story, from his growing up in working-class Philadelphia to becoming one of the first 1,000 black Marines during World War II, and his achievements in the worlds of jazz, classical, and popular music. Wilder is also known as a...

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Main Author: Berger, Edward (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Wilder, Joe.
Jazz musicians > United States > Biography.
Trumpet players > United States > Biography.
Jazz musicians.
Trumpet players.
United States.
Biography.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The making of a musician : Philadelphia (1922-1938)
  • Musical beginnings
  • Colored Kiddies of the air: "Little Louis" meets pops
  • William T. Tilden Junior High School
  • 2. From student to pro (1938-1943)
  • Mastbaum
  • The Harlem Dictators
  • Leaving home: Les Hite
  • Lionel Hampton
  • 3. Integration of the Armed Forces : the Montford Point Marines (1943-1946)
  • 4. Big band odyssey (1946-1950)
  • Hampton Redux
  • Jimmie Lunceford
  • Dizzy Gillespie
  • Lucky Millinder
  • Sam Donahue
  • Herbie Fields
  • 5. New York (1950-1953)
  • Noble Sissle and the Diamond Horseshoe
  • Breaking barriers on Broadway
  • Wilder on Broadway
  • Manhattan School of Music
  • 6. On the road again : Count Basie (1953-1954)
  • 7. Back on Broadway and into the studios (1954-1957)
  • Silk Stockings and Most Happy Fella
  • The Urban League: integrating the music industry
  • Developing a style: recording in the 1950s
  • From mainstream to third stream
  • 8. On staff : African American musicians and the network orchestras (1957-1964)
  • Wilder joins ABC
  • The studio life
  • The Urban League: integrating the network orchestras
  • Record dates: Sideman and Leader
  • "The Sound of Jazz"
  • Benny Goodman: USSR tour
  • Mis American Pageant
  • Family life
  • 9. A dream realized : return to classical music (1964-1974)
  • African Americans in symphony orchestras: the beginnings of change
  • The Symphony of the New World
  • The 1969 Human Rights Commission Hearings
  • Early Madison's reflections
  • Other classical activities
  • Wilder and Wilder: Joe and Alec
  • 1960s recordings
  • 10. Freelance (1974-1990)
  • The end of the staff orchestras
  • Peter Duchin and the society orchestra phenomenon
  • Return to Broadway
  • 1980s recordings
  • 11. New outlets : jazz repertory and jazz parties (1990-2000)
  • Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra
  • Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra
  • Garrison Keillor and A Prairie Home Companion
  • The jazz party phenomenon
  • 12. Passing it on : teaching, awards, and honors (2000- )
  • Juliiard
  • Awards and honors
  • The reluctant leader
  • Recordings in the new millennium: Evening Star
  • Arbors Records and the Statesmen of Jazz
  • Coda
  • Notes
  • Discography/Solography
  • Index.

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