The virtuoso mainstream soprano saxophonist and clarinettist, Bob Wilber, makes a return here after several years when he joins…

The virtuoso mainstream soprano saxophonist and clarinettist, Bob Wilber, makes a return here after several years when he joins Louis Stewart (guitar), Michael Coady (bass) and Kieran Phillips (drums) for a Dublin Jazz Society concert at the Hilton Hotel next Wednesday. Wilber, who was once a pupil of the great New Orleans reedman, Sidney Bechet, has an impressive list of musical credits over a long career, including The World's Greatest Jazz Band, a traditional lineup with such names as Yank Lawson, Billy Butterfield and Ralph Sutton, and the Bechet Legacy, a sextet devoted to his mentor's music, as well as contributing the authentic 20s musical environment for Francis Ford Coppola's narratively challenged movie, The Cotton Club. But it's for Soprano Summit, the celebrated small group he co-led with clarinettist Kenny Davern, which included one of the most knowledgeable pianists in mainstream jazz in Dick Hyman, that he is perhaps best known.