jazzbo

Don't make me Choose! Not exactly a newbie question, but a question about jazz music. I used to play jazz at a state office supply store I worked at for years and several times when playing early jazz I got asked: "What cartoon did that music come from?" ARGH!

kh, I think this article is snoozarama and could hardly even read its first few paragraphs. . . . BUT I do think that there are "still" jazz fans out there that need to be acquainted to the fact that the last years of Ellington were really fine ones.

Yes, I'll have to get this one day soon. . . ! I've heard the music, but never seen that footage. I really like the Ellington and the Waller in this series as well.

There was also "New Groove." I'm not that fond of the recordings with Brown; they seem too orchestrated and arranged for me in comparison to more free-wheeling earlier works by Pee Wee as a leader. (Brown pretty much was the leader of these I've read. . . .) I don't know what happened to Brown. I remember reading he was a musical instructor (high school level?) and may have returned to that field. I like the comments that Louis Prima made about Pee Wee, who was an important member of his band for a few years in the mid-thirties, something to the effect that Pee Wee could learn a tune in one play through and that he considered Pee Wee "the finest musical mind" he had encountered.

Got my package last night. . . all that I ordered at 4.99 and no shipping and handling. What's not to like?

ME TOO. He was so unique. What a musical mind! And what enjoyable sounds! Thanks for the clipping Randy!

They might have a LITTLE bit of extra stuff, I wouldn't expect anything considerable. This set will be nice. . . I just won't be in a hurry get it having all the Sisters stuff in J. R. T. Davies remasters, and having read a lot on the gals.

A Russell painting. . . .

NICE photo by Milt Hinton! Red, Ben, Pee Wee!

Sometimes this is someone's only record with Pee Wee on it. . . .

Stay OFF the streets!

Peck Kelly! Charles Ellsworth Russell! Weldon Teagarden!

A visit like this would sure aid MY recovery! (Or if it happened now, scare the crap out of me!)

Wish I had more!

Hmmmm. . . I'm pretty sure we CAN have all the stuff already. But what the hell, the Mosaic will be something to have later on. . . .

Pee Wee sketch by Jimmy Hamilton!

Older. . .wiser?

Young young Pee Wee. . . a friend of mine calls this "Where can I get a clarinet?"

With Max and Davey!

Let's share favorite photos of a unique clarinetist! Here's one with his galpal Linda Keene (and part of Eddie Condon)

What, you mean we're NOT all nuts?

Yes on many for me. It's mostly my wife's clutter, but it's all over. USED to bug the hell out of me. Used to it now and it keeps my house from being overrun with houseguests!