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| 1. | Turnaround
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| 2. | How About Me?
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| 3. | Ask Me Now!
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| 4. | Some Other Blues
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| 5. | I'd Climb the Highest Mountain
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| 6. | Licorice Stick
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| 7. | Prelude to a Kiss
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| 8. | Baby, You Can Count on Me
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| 9. | Hackensack
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| 10. | Angel Eyes
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| 11. | Calypso Walk
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Jazz
Pee Wee Russell - Clarinet
Marshall Brown - Trombone (Valve), Trumpet (Bass)
Ronnie Bedford - Drums
Russell George - Bass
* Bryan Koniarz - Producer
* Charles Stewart - Cover Photo
* George Avakian - Producer
* Hollis King - Art Direction
* Joe Lebow - Liner Design
* Ken Druker - Executive Producer
* Mark Smith - Production Assistant
* Nat Hentoff - Liner Notes
* Robert Flynn - Cover Design
* Sherniece Smith - Art Producer
* Suha Gur - Mastering
After a lifetime spent playing unusual and unpredictable clarinet solos in Dixieland settings, Russell late in life broke out of the stereotype and played in more modern settings. This Impulse LP (begging to be reissued on CD) has his clarinet placed in a pianoless quartet with valve trombonist Marshall Brown, playing tunes by John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, and Ornette Coleman, along with some classic ballads. It is a remarkable and very lyrical date that briefly rejuvenated the career of this veteran individualist.
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
Pee Wee Russell
Active Decades: '20s, '30s, '40s, '50s and '60s
Born: Mar 27, 1906 in St. Louis, MO
Died: Feb 15, 1969 in Alexandria, VA
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Classic Jazz, Dixieland, Mainstream Jazz, Swing
Pee Wee Russell, although never a virtuoso, was one of the giants of jazz. A highly expressive and unpredictable clarinetist, Russell was usually grouped in Dixieland-type groups throughout his career, but his advanced and spontaneous solos (which often sounded as if he were thinking aloud) defied classification. A professional by the time he was 15, Pee Wee Russell played in Texas with Peck Kelley's group (meeting Jack Teagarden) and then in 1925 he was in St. Louis jamming with Bix Beiderbecke. Russell moved to New York in 1927 and gained some attention for his playing with Red Nichols' Five Pennies. Russell freelanced during the era, making some notable records with Billy Banks in 1932 that matched him with Red Allen. He played clarinet and tenor with Louis Prima during 1935-1937, appearing on many records and enjoying the association.
After leaving Prima, he started working with Eddie Condon's freewheeling groups and would remain in Condon's orbit on and off for the next 30 years. Pee Wee Russell's recordings with Condon in 1938 made him a star in the trad Chicago jazz world. Russell was featured (but often the butt of jokes) on Condon's Town Hall Concerts. Heavy drinking almost killed him in 1950, but Russell made an unlikely comeback and became more assertive in running his career. He started leading his own groups (which were more swing- than Dixieland-oriented), was a star on the 1957 television special The Sound of Jazz, and by the early '60s was playing in a piano-less quartet with valve trombonist Marshall Brown whose repertoire included tunes by John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman; he even sat in with Thelonious Monk at the 1963 Newport Jazz Festival and took up abstract painting. But after the death of his wife in 1967, Pee Wee Russell accelerated his drinking and went quickly downhill, passing away less than two years later.
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
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