Dear Friends: It's not too late to send in a (tax-deductable) donation to help support the Alec Wilder centennial concert in NYC scheduled for April 29, 2007...
Jazz vocalist Paula West sang Wilder's "I'll Be Around" in a recent Rosemary Clooney tribute titled "The Last Girl Singer" at the 92nd Street Y in New York...
There is a new CD from Jazzed Media containing previously unreleased live performances by Jackie & Roy. It contains two Alec Wilder songs, "It's So Peaceful...
Thanks to Joe Lang for info on the new Jackie and Roy release - this kind of info is so valuable as I have just added both tunes to the "Discography:Songs"...
Are these re-released tracks from their 1990 recording, "An Alec Wilder Collection"? As an aside, that CD is still in print, and if anyone in this group does...
... No, this is all unreleased live material from the same gig at Concerts By The Sea that had been released quite some time ago. If you dig Jackie & Roy, it...
Original Message: "An Alec Wilder Collection" is a complete delight from top to bottom. John Biderman I agree entirely. I Think this is the one with the song...
macp@...
Jan 13, 2007 6:05 am
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One of my favorite recent CDs with Wilder content - Ron mentioned it back in April - is "Simply Jazz" by Daisy Chute, a startlingly good 15-year-old vocalist...
Thanks again Rob and Joe (and everyone else) for all of the great input for the AWG site - I'm going to have to quit my day job to keep up with all of the...
Re: the Wilder Centennial site (www.alecwildercentennial.com). Although the Discography is certainly extensive, here are a few additional songs and recordings...
songscout@...
Jan 18, 2007 8:47 pm
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Roger, Thank you so much for your list of additional recordings. I adore Morgana King and flipped when I heard her as a young teenager for the first time. I...
leslieorofino@...
Jan 19, 2007 8:28 pm
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In a message dated 1/19/2007 12:32:11 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, leslieorofino@... writes: You mentioned Blue Fool ... as far as I know I am the only...
songscout@...
Jan 20, 2007 5:53 am
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Re: the Wilder Centennial site (http://www.alecwildercentennial.com) In 1958 and 1960 an inexplicably neglected vocalist, Betty Blake, recorded an LP on...
songscout@...
Jan 20, 2007 6:01 am
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This Friday, January 26, "Music on Barcelona", a series of free chamber music concerts in Santa Fe will feature Alec Wilder Octets. The Octets are "Neurotic...
Steven Ovitsky
sotone@...
Jan 24, 2007 8:55 pm
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Nostalgia Time Pt. III Some odds and ends, perceptions and misperceptions: Alec's temper, impatience, meanness: never saw any of it, hardly. The meanest (if...
To Dirk Schaeffer, I don't consider any of this nostalgia (and nostalgia ain't what it used to be anyway). These miscellaneous notes are the out of the boxes...
I would disagree with Mr. Biderman's thoughts about the MIlls Brothers' recording of Alec's "I'll Be Around". I expressed surprise that the song had been...
What difference does it make after 50 years that some notes were 'wrong.' The Mills Brothers recording was a beautiful cover of the song and brought Alec's...
Helllou@...
Feb 2, 2007 8:46 pm
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Let's get straight on a couple of points about Alec, one of which was that he was a music business professional. Of course he was a snob; it was one of his...
OKeep@...
Feb 3, 2007 8:36 am
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Thank you so much. Poetic license for a phrase is taken all the time. Heard of jazz anyone? For Pete sake I agree completely (with the most recent postings)....
leslieorofino@...
Feb 3, 2007 8:39 am
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Whitney Balliett, 80, a jazz reporter who spent more than four decades writing graceful and definitive articles for the New Yorker magazine, died Feb. 1 at his...
Whitney Balliett died two days ago, February 1, at the age of 80. Aside from (or part of) his connection to Alec, Whitney was the one jazz writer who always...
Here is an outline of the anticipated program for the Alec Wilder Centennial Concert: Sunday, April 29th, 6:30 PM Merkin Hall West 67th Street, NYC Alec Wilder...
Steve Schwartz, who hosts what is now Boston's best jazz program on radio, is including Alec Wilder in a confluence of mid-February birthdays on the date of...
Sorry, I should have added that though the announcement says "Monday, Feb. 16" we all know, of course, it is Friday. And you can listen wherever you happen to...
Last Sunday at Montana State University in Billings, marimbist Barbara Fordham and other members of the Yellowstone Chamber Players performed Wilder's Sextet...
Friends, To celebrate Alec's 100th birthday, and to expose his enormous contribution to music to a wider audience, I have spent the past 100 days posting mp3s...
Today, on Alec Wilder's 100th birthday at least two NY city radio stations chose to program a number of his works and songs. Michael Bourne on his afternoon...
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