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The 1970s, a time most widely known in jazz because the “fusion years,” appeared like an extremely unlikely time and energy to form a vintage jazz/mainstream group. At Dick Gibson’s annual Colorado Jazz Party in 1972, Bob Wilber and Kenny Davern therefore enjoyed playing collectively during one track that within …

Throughout his long career, Bob Wilber did too much to keep classic jazz alive. A little misplaced (many jazz players of his era were a lot more thinking about bop and hard bop), Wilber (alongside Kenny Davern, Ralph Sutton, and Dick Wellstood) was mostly of the in his generation to …