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With billows and blasts from choirs and orchesters
Buskers and talkers
Big bands and squawkers,
the Stork Club has retained its qualities of decaying elegance and dwindling significance since the late 1950s.
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September 8, 2024: Ware It's At
The highly influential, individualistic Chicago-born bassist Wilbur Ware plays on in the celestial choir today on his 101st. A self-taught drummer-turned bassist who played alongside Monk, Trane, Hawk, Johnny Griffin, Sonny Rollins, Sun Ra, and we're just getting started.
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| Wilbur Ware Quintet Featuring Johnny Griffin |
Lullaby of the Leaves
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The Chicago Sound | Wilbur Ware - bass • Johnny Griffin - tenor saxophone • John Jenkins - alto saxophone • Junior Mance - piano • Wilbur Campbell - drums • Recorded at Reeves Sound Studios in New York City on October 16, 1957 |
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0:00:00 (Pop-up) |
| Wilbur Ware |
Wilbur Reflects
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Super Bass | Recorded January 1968 in NYC (Strata East) |
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0:04:16 (Pop-up) |
| Wilbur Ware |
Mod House
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Super Bass | Wilbur Ware - b; Ed Blackwell - dr; Don Cherry - tp; Clifford Jordan - ts - - Recorded January 1968 in NYC (Strata East) |
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0:09:04 (Pop-up) |
| DJ Try My Wares! | Great substack piece: https://iverson.substack.com/p/tt-298-wilbur-ware-centennial ..and from JazzProfiles: https://jazzprofiles.blogspot.com/2016/10/introducing-wilbur-ware-by-bill-crow.html | 0:14:46 (Pop-up) | |||
| Ernie Henry |
Cleo's Chant
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Presenting Ernie Henry | Ernie Henry - alto saxophone • Kenny Dorham - trumpet • Kenny Drew - piano • Wilbur Ware - bass • Art Taylor - drums • • Recorded at Reeves Sound Studios in New York City August 30, 1956 |
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0:20:43 (Pop-up) |
| Sonny Rollins |
Softly as in a Morning Sunrise
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A Night at the Village Vanguard Vol. 1 | Bass – Wilbur Ware Drums – Elvin Jones (tracks Tenor Saxophone – Sonny Rollins ——Recorded live on November 3, 1957 |
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0:29:04 (Pop-up) |
| Wilbur Ware |
Wilbur's Red Cross
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Super Bass | Wilbur Ware - b; Ed Blackwell - dr; Don Cherry - tp; Clifford Jordan - ts - - Recorded January 1968 in NYC (Strata East) |
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0:35:41 (Pop-up) |
| Walt Dickerson |
Tell Us Only The Beautiful Things
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Tell Us Only The Beautiful Things | Bass – Wilbur Ware; Percussion – Andrew Cyrille; Vibraphone, Written-By – Walt Dickerson - - Recorded July 21, 1975 at Virtue Recording Studios, Philadelphia |
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0:43:56 (Pop-up) |
| Thelonious Monk |
Straight, No Chaser
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Mulligan Meets Monk | Thelonious Monk – piano • Gerry Mulligan – baritone saxophone • Wilbur Ware – double bass • Shadow Wilson – drums Recorded August 12–13, 1957 Reeves Sound Studios, New York City |
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1:02:27 (Pop-up) |
| DJ Ware-ing U Out, No Doubt | 1:09:26 (Pop-up) | ||||
| Herbie Mann |
Green Stamp Monsta!
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The Jazz We Heard Last Summer | Alto Saxophone – Phil Woods; Bass – Wilbur Ware; Drums – Jerry Segal ; Flute, Tenor Saxophone – Herbie Mann; Guitar – Joe Puma ; Piano, Vibraphone – Eddie Costa; - -Engineer – Rudy Van Gelder - May 2, 1957 |
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1:13:45 (Pop-up) |
| Johnny Griffin Quartet |
Teri's Tune
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Way Out! | Johnny Griffin – tenor saxophone • Kenny Drew – piano • Wilbur Ware – bass • Philly Joe Jones – drums • Recorded February 26–27, 1958 New York City |
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1:21:42 (Pop-up) |
| Grant Green |
Love Walked In
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Remembering | Grant Green – guitar • Wilbur Ware – bass • Al Harewood – drums Recorded on August 29, 1961 |
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1:29:45 (Pop-up) |
| Rita Reys |
Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year
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The Cool Voice of Rita Reys | Bass – Wilbur Ware Drums – Art Blakey Piano – Kenny Drew; Producer – George Avakian Tenor Saxophone – Ira Sullivan; Trumpet – Donald Byrd; Vocals – Rita Reys - - Recorded 1955-1956, in the United States with The Jazz Messengers |
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1:36:18 (Pop-up) |
| Sun Ra Arkestra |
Can This Be Love?
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Sound Sun Pleasure!! | Sun Ra - piano; Wilbur Ware - bass - at Sun ra's apt. in Chicago - - recording date: unknown |
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1:39:59 (Pop-up) |
| Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane |
Trinkle, Tinkle
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The Complete 1957 Riverside Recordings | Thelonious Monk - piano • John Coltrane - tenor saxophone • Coleman Hawkins - tenor saxophone • Gigi Gryce - alto saxophone • Ray Copeland - trumpet • Wilbur Ware - upright bass • Art Blakey - drums • Shadow Wilson - drums |
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1:45:59 (Pop-up) |
| Wilbur Ware Quintet Featuring Johnny Griffin |
The Man I Love
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The Chicago Sound | Wilbur Ware - bass • Johnny Griffin - tenor saxophone • John Jenkins - alto saxophone • Junior Mance - piano • Frankie Dunlop - drums • Recorded at Reeves Sound Studios in New York City on November 18, 1957 |
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1:52:38 (Pop-up) |
| Kenny Drew |
The Lady Is a Tramp
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Pal Joey | Kenny Drew - piano • Wilbur Ware - bass • Philly Joe Jones - drums • Recorded October 15, 1957 New York City |
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2:00:00 (Pop-up) |
| DJ Starting to Ware Thin | 2:05:42 (Pop-up) | ||||
| Wilbur Ware Quintet Featuring Johnny Griffin |
Body and Soul
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The Chicago Sound | Wilbur Ware - bass • Johnny Griffin - tenor saxophone • John Jenkins - alto saxophone • Junior Mance - piano • Wilbur Campbell - drums • Recorded at Reeves Sound Studios in New York City on October 16, 1957 |
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2:11:14 (Pop-up) |
| Lee Morgan |
Roccus
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Indeed! | Lee Morgan - trumpet • Horace Silver - piano • Clarence Sharpe - alto saxophone • Wilbur Ware - bass • Philly Joe Jones - drums • Recorded • November 4, 1956 at Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ |
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2:14:38 (Pop-up) |
| Jean 'Toots' Thielemans |
Soul Station
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Man Bites Harmonica | Jean "Toots" Thielemans - harmonica, guitar • Pepper Adams - baritone saxophone • Kenny Drew - piano • Wilbur Ware - bass • Art Taylor - drums • Recorded December 30, 1957 and January 7, 1958 Reeves Sound Studios, New York City |
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2:22:53 (Pop-up) |
| Kenny Dorham |
Jazz Classic
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2Horns/2Rhythm | Kenny Dorham – trumpet • Ernie Henry – alto saxophone • Wilbur Ware – bass • G.T. Hogan – drums • Recorded in New York City on December 2 1957 |
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2:29:56 (Pop-up) |
| Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane |
Blues For Tomorrow
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The Complete 1957 Riverside Recordings | Thelonious Monk - piano • John Coltrane - tenor saxophone • Coleman Hawkins - tenor saxophone • Gigi Gryce - alto saxophone • Ray Copeland - trumpet • Wilbur Ware - upright bass • Art Blakey - drums • Shadow Wilson - drums |
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2:33:09 (Pop-up) |
| Wilbur Ware |
By Myself
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Super Bass | Wilbur Ware - solo bass - - Recorded January 1968 in NYC (Strata East) |
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2:46:41 (Pop-up) |
| DJ All Wared Out | Music behind Wared Out DJ: Joseph Jarman, Don Moye Featuring Johnny Dyani - Ode To Wilbur Ware - from the album: Black Paladins |
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2:54:21 (Pop-up) |
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' Wilbur Bernard Ware (September 8, 1923 – September 9, 1979) was an American jazz double bassist. He was a regular bassist for the Riverside record label in the 1950s, and recorded regularly in that decade with Johnny Griffin, Kenny Dorham, Kenny Drew, and Thelonious Monk. He also appeared on records released by J.R. Monterose, Toots Thielemans, Sonny Clark, Tina Brooks, Zoot Sims, and Grant Green, among others.Ware grew up in Chicago where he taught himself to play drums, banjo, bass while playing at church. In the 1940s, he worked with Stuff Smith, Sonny Stitt, and Roy Eldridge. He recorded with Sun Ra in the early 1950s. Later in the 1950s, settling in New York City, Ware played with Eddie Vinson, Art Blakey, and Buddy DeFranco. His only album recorded as a leader and released during his lifetime was The Chicago Sound, from 1957 when he worked for Riverside. He made jazz instructional albums for Music Minus One. In 1958, Ware was one of 57 jazz musicians to appear in the photograph A Great Day in Harlem.
Ware was a member of the Thelonious Monk quartet from 1957 to 1958. He also performed and recorded in 1957 with the Sonny Rollins Trio at the Village Vanguard. Largely self taught, Ware had an unorthodox but highly unique and percussive approach to the bass.
Ware's addiction to narcotics resulted in his return to Chicago in 1963, and then to a period of incarceration. He was inactive musically for about six years. In 1969, Ware played with Clifford Jordan, Elvin Jones and Sonny Rollins. He died from emphysema in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1979. '
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