BADBOY-DON

Hi Wilmer....
I was just listening to some of my old Joe Wilder CD's just yesterday morning and was thinkin about you, Jimmy O and Joe and then tonight....I stumbled onto the Trumpet Masta' board and found your WISE TALK!

I miss hearing about you and your buds from the BIG APPLE.
Have a great day, Wilmer and say hello from this ol' toot from the NW!

wiseone2

I spoke with Joe earlier today, he's running around like the younger crowd of trumpet players.
We are going to meet up at the Jazz Museum's "Harlem Speaks" presentation on Thursday. Hank Jones is going to be the speaker. Hank, Joe and Roy Hargrove played together last week in a JVC Jazz concert.
I am looking forward to meeting Hank, he's the only Jones brother that I haven't made music with.
Wilmer

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trpt2345

I really enjoy my copy of Wilder and Wilder, great trumpet player.

Michael McLaughlin

"Time ripens all things; no man is born wise."
Miguel de Cervantes

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BADBOY-DON

Hey Mike...
That W&W was one of the CDs that I had been listening to the other day.
Are you still playing that Mikey Vax Yama-mamma of yours? Mike Vax was here in the NW a while back at one of his clinics. He plays bettern' ever. Powerful-big-bold. (However he now has Getzen make his tootskis.)
www.getzen.com/trumpet/artist/3001mv.shtml

That old Schilkeyama YTR-739 of mine is still one of my favorite axes, although I seem to have better results with my old Callet Jazz and Symphonique C horns. Their upper registers play considerably easier and I don't clam-train wreck as many notes.
Still my favorite old road rage Besson Sov' was my favorite sounding instrument--UNTIL IT WAS STOLEN out of my old wheel barrow pickup truck from hell.
(I never left home without that ol' horn at my side.) It was so beat up and ugly looking-I had no idea that any self respecting thief would actually steal such a sad looking item. (hummm? unless he might have also been an old toot cornet freak like me?

Joe DiMonte

[quote="wiseone2"]I spoke with Joe earlier today, he's running around like the younger crowd of trumpet players.


Were he back in the Philadelphia area,he would today be swimming rather than running.

We are going to meet up at the Jazz Museum's "Harlem Speaks" presentation on Thursday. Hank Jones is going to be the speaker. Hank, Joe and Roy Hargrove played together last week in a JVC Jazz concert.
I am looking forward to meeting Hank, he's the only Jones brother that I haven't made music with.

I can't believe you never played on University Place at the Cookery or a few blocks up at Bradley's.
Hank was a fixture in those joints.
Did you ever participate in those after hours (2:00 AM) jam sessions at SLUGS?
Elvin loved holding court in that joint.
I once saw Billy Harper lay down some licks that had my head spinning.
He was a joy to look and listen play the tenor.

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Yep. And my Bach C and Getzen four valve flugel, all of them on tonight's gig from 5 'till midnight! Ouch.

Michael McLaughlin

"I tended to place my wife under a pedestal."
Woody Allen

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dow30

Joe Wilder Quartet will be at Village Vanguard July 18-23 for those of you in the NYC area.

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