Search results for "Pee Wee Russell"
Pee Wee Russell: That Old Feeling (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music May 19, 08Journalists in the 1950s adored Pee Wee Russell as much for his looks (think dyspeptic basset hound with a mustache) ...
Pee Wee Russell & Coleman Hawkins: 28th and 8th (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music February 09, 09The album title Jazz Reunion refers to the fact that Pee Wee Russell and Coleman Hawkins had not recorded together si...
Red Allen All-Stars: Wild Man Blues (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music May 27, 08A few days before CBS-TV's all-star special The Sound of Jazz (1957), most of the scheduled participants appeared for...
Russell, Pee Wee (Charles Ellsworth) posted in Encyclopedia August 20, 08Pee Wee Russell took the clarinet from New Orleans out into the world. Still today, he stands as one of its most expr...
Bixology (An Excerpt) posted in Features and Interviews March 09, 08Author Brendan Wolfe is our resident Bixologist at jazz.com -- that is, when he isn’t running the best...
Breaking Jazz News & Opinion: July 2009 posted in Miscellaneous Pages August 02, 09Student fined $675K for 30 downloads That's $22,500 per song. Favorite band movies Sa...
Jazz's Most Iconic Photo Is Half a Century Old posted in Features and Interviews August 11, 08by Alan Kurtz "When I found out there was going to be this big meeting for a picture in Esquire," Dizzy Gilles...
OctoJAZZarian Profile: Carline Ray posted in Features and Interviews March 17, 09For the first time in jazz’s brief century, many leading artists are staying active beyond their eighth decade. Octo...
A Classic Revisited posted in Miscellaneous Pages December 12, 07A Classic Revisited was a regular feature at jazz.com from December 2007 through October 2009. Five days per week, ...
Watch Out Wikipedia . . . Here We Come! posted in The Jazz.com Blog August 28, 08The jazz.com team continues to work behind-the-scenes on our on-line Encyclopedia of Jazz Musicians. Under the lead...
Revisiting Jazz Classics posted in The Jazz.com Blog July 10, 08Five days per week, jazz.com highlights a classic recording from the past. This feature, called A Classic Revisit...
Wiley, Lee (Lee Willey) posted in Encyclopedia December 17, 08Lee Wiley’s move from girl band singer to nightclub chanteuse brought her into her own sound, which incorporates styl...
Weekend Track Review Roundup posted in The Jazz.com Blog May 29, 08As regular visitors to this site know, jazz.com takes a different approach to reviewing music. Our team of more t...
Mole, Miff (Irving Milfred) posted in Encyclopedia June 17, 09Miff Mole was one of the first to bring the tailgate style of Kid Ory and other New Orleans trombonists to his hometo...
OctoJAZZarian Profile: Buddy DeFranco posted in Features and Interviews October 16, 09For the first time in jazz’s brief century, many leading artists are staying active beyond their eighth decade. Octo...
Jimmy Giuffre: Blue Monk (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music October 27, 07Waiting in the wings of CBS-TV's special The Sound of Jazz (1957), Jimmy Giuffre watched his co-star Thelonious Monk ...
Wetmore, Dick (Richard Byron) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Wetmore, Dick (Richard Byron), violin, cornet, baritone horn, double bass, composer; b. Glens Falls, NY, 13 January 1...
Has the Clarinet Gone the Way of the Banjo? posted in The Jazz.com Blog April 27, 09Michael Pellecchia concludes his look at the rise and fall of the clarinet below, in the final installment of this t...
OctoJAZZarian Profile: Marian McPartland posted in Features and Interviews May 02, 08For the first time in jazz’s brief century, many leading artists are staying active beyond their 8th decade. Oct...
Soprano Summit: Chalumeau Blue (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music June 13, 08From 1972 until they disbanded in 1979, Soprano Summit was the finest traditional/swing band of its kind, in great de...
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