Research Catalog

Title

Swingin' with Pee Wee / Pee Wee Russell.

Author

Russell, Pee Wee

Publication

Berkeley, CA : Prestige, [1999], ℗1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Pierce, Nat
• Clayton, Buck, 1911-1991
• Flanagan, Tommy
• Marshall, Wendell
• Johnson, Osie
• Braff, Ruby, 1927-2003
• Freeman, Bud, 1906-1991
• Dickenson, Vic
• Potter, Tommy, 1918-1988
• Kiffe, Karl, 1927-

Description

1 audio disc : digital, stereo; 4 3/4 in.

Alternative Title

• Swinging with Pee Wee
• Portrait of Pee Wee.
• Pee Wee Russell memorial album.

Subjects

• Popular instrumental music > 1951-1960
• Clarinet with jazz ensemble
• Jazz > 1951-1960
• Septets (Piano, clarinet, saxophone, trombone, trumpet, percussion, double bass)
• Quintets (Piano, clarinet, trumpet, percussion, double bass)

Note

• Jazz quintets and septets; arr. by Nat Pierce (8th-17 selections).
• The 1st-7th selections originally released in 1960 as Swingin' with Pee Wee (Prestige/Swingville: 2008); the 8th-16th selections originally released (in 1958?) as Portrait of Pee Wee (Counterpoint: 565). The first of these was reissued (in 1969?) as The Pee Wee Russell memorial album (Prestige 7672). Notes from these three releases, by Nat Hentoff, Dan Morgenstern, and Charles Edward Smith, are reproduced as accompanying material (1 folded sheet ([10] p.).

Event (note)

• Recorded at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Mar. 29, 1960 (1st-7th selections) and in New York City, Feb. 18-19, 1958 (remainder).

System Details (note)

• Compact disc; remastered analog recordings.

Contents

(What can I say, dear) after I say I'm sorry / Donaldson, Lyman (5:00) -- Midnight blue / Pee Wee Russell (5:38) -- The very thought of you / Ray Noble (4:40) -- Lulu's back in town / Warner, Dubin (5:02) -- Englewood / Russell (6:40) -- I would do most anything for you / Mack David (6:07) -- Wrap your troubles in dreams / Barris, Koehler, Moll (5:37) -- That old feeling / Fain, Brown (4:17) -- I've got the world on a string / Arlen, Koehler (4:25) -- Exactly like you / McHugh, Fields (3:02) -- It all depends on you / DeSylva, Brown, Henderson (4:00) -- If I had you / Shapiro, Campbell, Connelly (3:20) -- Out of nowhere / Heyman, Green (4:49) -- Pee Wee blues / Russell, Pierce (4:20) -- I used to love you / Brown, Von Tilzer (5:03) -- Oh, no! / Russell, Cary (4:51).

LCCN

025218521321

OCLC

• ocm41484308
• 41484308
• SCSB-14026334

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries