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Joe Wilder: A True Living Legend

by Greg Thomas
Joe Wilder, a true living legend of the trumpet, is at long last getting what fellow brass great Roy Eldridge used to call his screen credits . After 60+ years of superlative support work in big bands, Broadway pit orchestras and commercials, Wilder is finally headlining his own quartet at the Village Vanguard. ...
1943-45 Broadcasts
Label: Soundcraft
Released: 2002
Track listing: Introduction; Hallelujah; Pistol Packin
Jimmie Lunceford and His Orchestra: 1943-45 Broadcasts

by Jack Bowers
Somewhere between the enduring Swing Era “superstars” (Ellington, Basie, Miller, the Dorsey brothers, Harry James, Artie Shaw) and the scarcely remembered “regional bands” stood such enormously popular (and talented) but relatively short–lived “second tier” orchestras as those led by Fletcher Henderson, Don Redman, Chick Webb, Andy Kirk, Jay McShann, Jimmie Lunceford and others. Lunceford’s ensemble was ...