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- Born
- 1920
- Works
- 2
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1922-02-22
- Active to
- 2014-05-09
jazz
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Joseph Benjamin Wilder (February 22, 1922 – May 9, 2014) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. Wilder was awarded the Temple University Jazz Master's Hall of Fame Award in 2006. The National Endowment for the Arts honored him with its highest honor in jazz, the NEA Jazz Masters Award for 2008. Wilder was born into a musical family led by his father Curtis, a bassist and bandleader in Philadelphia. Wilder's first performances took place on the radio program, "Parisian Tailor
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Colwyn
- Place of death
- New York City
- Occupation
- jazz musician
- Educated at
- Manhattan School of Music
- Award
- NEA Jazz Masters
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- piccolo trumpet
- Record label
- Savoy Records
- Image
- John Webber, Joe Wilder and Lewis Nash.jpg
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- date of death
- 2014-05-09
- date of birth
- 1922-02-22
- cause of death
- heart failure
- manner of death
- natural causes
- Commons category
- Joe Wilder
- start of work period
- 2014-00-00
- place of burial
- Woodlawn Cemetery
- ethnic group
- African Americans
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