http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/awilder/ Alec Wilder Group Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:41:32 GMT Ronald Prather http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/awilder/message/314 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/awilder/message/314 A few new Alec Wilder song recordings: Blackberry Winter, Hilary Cole "Haunted Heart" [Justin Time] Moon and Sand, Corona "Old Devil Moon" [Ao NRW] Moon and Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:30:53 GMT Ronald Prather http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/awilder/message/313 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/awilder/message/313 Pianist Joe LoCascio and saxophonist Woody Witt have teamed up for a new CD "Seasons Ago: The Songs of Alec Wilder" on the Heart Music label. The track Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:24:35 GMT John O Biderman http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/awilder/message/312 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/awilder/message/312 Those who want to hear the Ray Bolger recording can find it on Rob Geller's fabulous web site: http://wilderworld.podomatic.com/ It is upload #92. Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:37:13 GMT Ronald Prather http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/awilder/message/311 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/awilder/message/311 On Tuesday, 25 new recordings were added to the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry. This is the seventh induction of new recordings, bringing the Fri, 05 Jun 2009 02:25:53 GMT Ronald Prather http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/awilder/message/310 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/awilder/message/310 On her album "Haunted Heart" [Justin Time], songstress Hilary Kole includes the Wilder-McGlohon song "Blackberry Winter." Reviewer Andrew Velez writes "It's Fri, 05 Jun 2009 02:17:58 GMT rzbgz@... http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/awilder/message/309 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/awilder/message/309 Great piece!  Thanks for the link, Ron.  I find it interesting that Jackie credits Alec with writing Niki's Song.  On the record label Niki's Song is Mon, 25 May 2009 23:56:27 GMT Ronald Prather http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/awilder/message/308 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/awilder/message/308 Fascinating five-part interview of Jackie Cain: http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/entity.php?id=11322 (You have to click one of the archive links at the bottom Sun, 19 Apr 2009 03:19:07 GMT John O Biderman http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/awilder/message/307 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/awilder/message/307 Speaking of New York cabaret performances (ref: recent post about Barbara Cook)... On Thursday evening, April 2, while in New York for the annual AW concert), Sat, 18 Apr 2009 02:10:05 GMT Dirk Schaeffer http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/awilder/message/306 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/awilder/message/306 Talk about nostalgia...In the mid-50's, when I left Hew York and Metronome, my first real newspaper job was film reviewer for the Philadelphia News, doubling Fri, 17 Apr 2009 05:44:29 GMT Ronald Prather http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/awilder/message/305 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/awilder/message/305 From the Barbara Cook New York Times Review Stephen Holden April 15, 2009 Of the many cabaret performances of hers I have attended, Tuesday's opening night was Wed, 08 Apr 2009 02:47:21 GMT Ronald Prather http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/awilder/message/304 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/awilder/message/304 Twenty-Fourth Annual Concert CELEBRATING THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF ALEC WILDER Saint Peter's Church, New York City Saturday, April 4, 2009 John Biderman, Honorary Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:36:58 GMT Harry E. White http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/awilder/message/303 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/awilder/message/303 Hilary Kole performed tonight at Dizzy's Club Coca Cola at the Jazz at Lincoln Centre complex. The performance centered on her new (and I understand first Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:37:18 GMT Ronald Prather http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/awilder/message/302 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/awilder/message/302 Maude Maggart, the critically-acclaimed chanteuse - hailed as "bewitching" by The New York Times, "utterly enchanting" by the New York Post and "stunning" by Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:53:38 GMT John O Biderman http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/awilder/message/301 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/awilder/message/301 I just ran across this blog post by one Joe Sarno from February of '08 with a nice, brief tribute to AW and Marian McPartland's wonderful album of Wilder Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:13:01 GMT Ronald Prather http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/awilder/message/300 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/awilder/message/300 As a part of the "Music of the Americas" concert on March 19 at Lamar University, Robert Culbertson will play Wilder's Sonata for Horn and Piano, accompanied