Bob Wilber

Robert Sage Wilber (March 15, 1928 – August 4, 2019) was an American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, and band leader. He was popular in the 1950s and 1960s, including Bobby Hackett, Benny Goodman, Sidney Bechet, Jack Teagarden and Eddie Condon.

Bob Wilber
Bob Wilber at the North Sea Jazz Festival in the late 1970s
Background information
Birth name	Robert Sage Wilber
Born	(1928-03-15)March 15, 1928 New York City, U.S.
Died	August 4, 2019(2019-08-04) (aged 91) Chipping Campden, England, U.K.
Genres	Jazz, dixieland
Occupation(s)	Musician
Instruments	Saxophone, clarinet
Years active	1940s–2010s
Labels	Arbors

In the late 1960s, he was an original member of the World's Greatest Jazz Band, and in the early 70s of Soprano Summit, a band which gained wide attention. In the late 1970s, he formed the Bechet Legacy Band.

Wilber died at the age of 91 in Chipping Campden, England on August 4, 2019.^[1]