Swingin' With Pee Wee

by Pee Wee Russell

Swingin' With Pee Wee cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1960
  • Label: Prestige Swingville
  • Country: United States
  • Community rating: 4.08/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Paired with the robust tenor saxophone of Buck Clayton, the highly idiosyncratic clarinetist delivers a remarkably relaxed, profoundly swinging session. His unique, often raspy and rhythmically unpredictable phrasing finds a perfect, sympathetic foundation within the modern rhythm section, bridging traditional Dixieland instincts with mainstream swing. It is universally lauded as one of the definitive late-career masterpieces of a true jazz original.

Genres

Descriptors: acoustic, improvisation, instrumental

Tracklist

  1. What Can I Say Dear
  2. Midnight Blue
  3. The Very Thought Of You
  4. Lulu's Back In Town
  5. Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams
  6. I Would Do Most Anything For You
  7. Englewood

Credits

  • Pee Wee Russell - primary artist, clarinet, written-by
  • Buck Clayton - primary artist, trumpet
  • Wendell Marshall - bass
  • Osie Johnson - drums
  • Tommy Flanagan - piano
  • Abe Lyman - written-by
  • Walter Donaldson - written-by
  • Ray Noble - written-by

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