Albert Q Wing, a Southern Cal native, breached our planet on July 19 1952; well, almost anyway.
Clarinet lessons began at 9 years old, at 13 switched to tenor and baritone saxaphones.Formal education was attended at Cerritos College/Norwalk Ca '70-'71, University of Utah '72 and Westminster College/Salt Lake City UT. It is in SLC where a group eventually to be known as "The Fowler Brothers" was formed. But for the influence of Dr. William "Bill" Fowler Jazz Studies and the multiple scholarship opportunities, this life altering experience would never have come to fruition.
!973 befriended Frank Zappa, auditioned "The Bebop Tango", was hired and fired within a period of 30 minutes.
1974 lived in Denver, CO, performing with "The Stu Jackson Orchestra", backing the likes of Tony Bennett, Jerry Lewis, The Four Tops and many more top stars at the now defunct "Warehouse".
1975, it's back to Los Angeles where in 1976 they formed "The Fowler Brothers Band". That same year he recorded with Shawn Phillips on the "Rumplestiltskin's Revenge" album, toured with Flo & Eddie and in 1977 spent most of that year performing at Disneyland on the "Space Mountain" stage.
One day in early 1978, he received a call from Raphael Ravenscroft(Baker Street/Gerry Rafferty). That summer, flew to London, England, where they collaborated on Raph's album, "Her Father Didn't Like Me Anyway".
The years 1979-1985 were spent recording and playing with Maxine Nightingale, Johnny "Guitar" Watson and The Fowler Brothers.
The 1986 "As The City Sleeps" tour with George Benson was the year's highlight, then in 1987, after 14 years, finally got the gig with Frank Zappa.There are numerous live recordings of this band, "Broadway The Hard Way," You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore," "Make A Jazz Noise Here" and "The Greatest Band You Never Heard In Your Life," just to name a few.
Larry Carlton and the "On Solid Ground" tour endured the spring and summer of 1989, later that year joined Diana Ross and the "Workin' Overtime" tour playing the EWI/sax chair. In between the time with DR he toured and recorded with the legendary Japanese superstar, Eikichi Yazawa('90 and '92) This year Albert came full circle with Larry Carlton, where they performed/recorded at "Billboard Live" and "Blue Note" in Japan, finishing the tour in Singapore.
Albert is currently working on music for his own CD project, he is also working on a CD project with The Bisquera Brothers. Les Deux Love Orchestra has a new CD, "Ecstasy," scheduled for a Jan. 08 2008 release on Amazon, where Albert's clarinet is featured on Artie Shaw's, "Nightmare." For more discography and related material, please check out: http://shopping.yahoo.com/p:Albert%20Wing:1927193719 or Google and Yahoo search engines.
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