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Ask Me Now!

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

Album

Ask Me Now

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


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


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

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


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


“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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Pee Wee Russell: Swingin' with Pee Wee

Read "Swingin' with Pee Wee" reviewed 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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I Giganti Del Jazz Vol. 29

Label: Curcio
Released: 1981
Track listing: Really The Blues; Royal Garden Blues; Tommy's Blues; Revolutionary Blues; Perdido; Sweet Sue, Just You; Stompin' At The Savoy;


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