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Pee Wee Russell: Portrait Of Pee Wee
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 ...
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
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
Pee Wee Russell: Ask Me Now!
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.
Pee Wee Russell: Ask Me Now
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, ...
Swingin' With Pee Wee
Label: Prestige Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: What Can I Say Dear, After I Say I
Pee Wee Russell: Swingin' With Pee Wee
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 ...
Pee Wee Russell: Swingin' with Pee Wee
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 ...
Pee Wee Russell: Swingin' with Pee Wee
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 ...
