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Portrait Of Pee Wee

By Pee Wee Russell

Label: Empire Musicwerks
Released: 2006
Track listing: That Old Feeling; World On A String; Exactly Like You; It All Depends On You; If I Had You; Out Of Nowhere; Pee Wee Blues; I Used To Love You; Oh No!

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Pee Wee Russell: Portrait Of Pee Wee

Read "Portrait Of Pee Wee" reviewed by David Rickert

by David Rickert

Pee Wee Russell was an early pioneer, a Dixieland veteran, and an inspired clarinetist with an unusual voice. No less than Gene Krupa once said that he had “the most fabulous musical mind... I've never run into anybody who had that much musical talent. During the fifties, long after his style of music had fallen out ...

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Ask Me Now!

By Pee Wee Russell

Label: Impulse! Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Turnaround - 4:14 2. How About Me? - 4:16 3. Ask Me Now! - 2:30 4. Some Other Blues - 3:16 5. I'd Climb the Highest Mountain - 3:26 6. Licorice Stick - 3:36 7. Prelude to a Kiss - 2:41 8. Baby, You Can Count on Me - 5:01 9. Hackensack - 3:37 10. Angel Eyes - 2:51 11. Calypso Walk - 2:34

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Ask Me Now

By Pee Wee Russell

Label: Impulse! Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Turnaround 2. How About Me? 3. Ask Me Now 4. Some Other Blues 5. I

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Pee Wee Russell: Ask Me Now!

Read "Ask Me Now!" reviewed by Joel Roberts

by Joel Roberts

Who says you can't teach an old dog--or an old clarinetist--new tricks? Approaching his 60th birthday in the early '60s, Pee Wee Russell, long associated with Dixieland and traditional jazz, formed a new pianoless quartet with trombonist Marshall Brown and started exploring the more modern sounds of Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, and even Ornette Coleman.

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Pee Wee Russell: Ask Me Now

Read "Ask Me Now" reviewed by David Rickert

by David Rickert

Pee Wee Russell enjoyed a significant comeback with the original release of this session. Not content to live in the past, Russell doesn’t gaze in the rearview mirror as far back as we would expect. First off, he has chosen a program of (at the time) modern works by the likes of Coleman, Monk, and Coltrane, ...

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Swingin' With Pee Wee

By Pee Wee Russell

Label: Prestige Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: What Can I Say Dear, After I Say I

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Pee Wee Russell: Swingin' With Pee Wee

Read "Swingin' With Pee Wee" reviewed by Mike Neely

by Mike Neely

Pee Wee Russell was an odd-duck of a clarinetist who in his idiosyncratic way foreshadowed some of the innovations of modern jazz. His playing at times seems “off" in the way that some of the earliest jazz sounds almost otherworldly with its unique tones and timbres. Russell’s expressive slides and dips pre-figure the likes of the ...

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Pee Wee Russell: Swingin' with Pee Wee

Read "Swingin' with Pee Wee" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

“We just made a record,” he said at the bar. “And it was a good one – I think.” The formula was simple: after Buck Clayton was picked for the front line, the producer was told to get a rhythm section. “You go ahead and surprise me. I trust your judgment. But don’t make it a ...


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