{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = The Pretty Sound | type = Album | artist = Joe Wilder | cover = The Pretty Sound.jpg | alt = | released = October 1959 | recorded = 1959 | venue = | studio = | genre = Jazz | length = 40:20 | label = Columbia<br><small>CL 1372</small> | producer = | chronology = Joe Wilder | prev_title = Wilder 'n' Wilder | prev_year = 1956 | next_title = Jazz From Peter Gunn | next_year = 1959 }}
'''''The Pretty Sound''''' is an album led by jazz trumpeter Joe Wilder recorded in 1959 and first released on the Columbia label.<ref name="Columbia discography">[https://bsnpubs.com/columbia/columbia12/columbia1300.html Both Sides Now: Columbia Main Series, Part 9: CL 1300-1399 (1959-1960)] accessed September 19, 2018</ref>
==Reception== {{Music ratings | rev1 = ''Allmusic'' | rev1Score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name="Allmusic"/> }} The Allmusic review by Wade Kergan stated: "Wilder is joined by Urbie Green, Hank Jones, Jerome Richardson, and Herbie Mann on ''Pretty Sound of Joe Wilder'', which lives up to its name on a tasteful selection of ballads and standards".<ref name="Allmusic">{{AllMusic|first=Wade|last=Kergan|class=album |id=mw0000592730 |title=''The Pretty Sound of Joe Wilder/Jazz From "Peter Gunn"'' – Review |accessdate=September 19, 2018}}</ref>
==Track listing== # "Harbor Lights" (Hugh Williams, Jimmy Kennedy) – 3:39 # "I Hear Music" (Burton Lane, Frank Loesser) – 3:21 # "It's So Peaceful in the Country" (Alec Wilder) – 5:02 # "Autumn in New York" (Vernon Duke) – 5:03 # "Guys and Dolls" (Loesser) – 4:17 # "Blue Moon" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 4:14 # "Caravan" (Juan Tizol, Duke Ellington) – 4:49 # "Greensleeves" (Traditional) – 3:30 # "The Boy Next Door" (Hugh Martin, Ralph Blane) – 3:22 # "Lullabye" (Johannes Brahms) – 3:03
==Personnel== *Joe Wilder – trumpet *Urbie Green – trombone (tracks 1, 3, 5, 6 & 8–10) *Herbie Mann – flute (tracks 2, 4 & 7) *Phil Bodner – English horn, flute, clarinet, saxophone, (tracks 1, 6 & 9) *Jerome Richardson – clarinet, saxophone (tracks 1, 3, 5, 6 & 8–10) *Jerry Sanfino – flute, clarinet, saxophone (tracks 3, 5, 8 & 10) *Hank Jones – piano *Al Cassamenti – guitar *George Duvivier – bass (tracks 1, 3, 5, 6 & 8–10) *Milt Hinton – bass (tracks 2, 4 & 7) *John Cresci Jr. – drums (tracks 2, 4 & 7) *Osie Johnson – drums (tracks 3, 5, 8 & 10) *Don Lamond – drums (tracks 1, 6 & 9) *Mike Colicchio – arranger
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