Flip Phillips and Bob Wilber. At Dick Gibson´s Jazz Party, Colorado Springs, 1975

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Flip Phillips and Bob Wilber at Dick Gibson´s Jazz Party, Colorado Springs, Denver, 1975.

Flip Phillips (by name Joseph Edward Filippelli) was an American jazz tenor saxophone and clarinet player. Phillips played clarinet in a restaurant in Brooklyn. After that he was a member of bands led by Frankie Newton, Red Norvo, Benny Goodman, and Wingy Manone. He was a regular soloist for the Woody Herman band in the middle 1940s and for the next ten years performed with Jazz at the Philharmonic. He retired to Florida, but after fifteen years he returned to music, recording again, and performing into his 80s.

b. March 26, 1915 in New York.
d. August 17, 2001 in Fort Lauderdale Florida.

Bob Wilber (by name Robert Sage Wilber) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and bandleader. Wilber was active in jazz education, including working as director of the Smithsonian Jazz Repertory Ensemble. He wrote for films, including The Cotton Club. In his autobiography, Music Was Not Enough, he recounts his childhood, meeting his mentor Sidney Bechet, in 1946, and his struggles as a musician in the 1950s and 1960s. He died at the age of 91 in 2019.

b. March 15, 1928 in New York City.
d. August 4, 2019 in Chipping Campden, England.

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