Swingin' with Pee Wee

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Swingin' with Pee Wee
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Studio album by
Pee Wee Russell with Buck Clayton
Released1960
RecordedMarch 29, 1960
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Genre Jazz
Length38:44
Label Swingville
SV 2008
Producer Esmond Edwards
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(1959)		Swingin' with Pee Wee
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(1962)
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(1959)		Swingin' with Pee Wee
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Swingin' with Pee Wee is an album by clarinetist Pee Wee Russell with trumpeter Buck Clayton which was recorded in 1960 and released on the Swingville label. [1] [2]

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Scott Yanow of AllMusic states, "Russell and trumpeter Buck Clayton make for a perfectly compatible team on the 1960 date ... His playing is much more consistent and comfortable on the mid-tempo material than usual and he mostly gets to avoid the overly hyper Dixieland warhorses. A gem". [3]

Track listing

  1. "What Can I Say Dear" (Walter Donaldson, Abe Lyman) – 5:00
  2. "Midnight Blue" (Pee Wee Russell) – 5:38
  3. "The Very Thought of You" (Ray Noble) – 4:40
  4. "Lulu's Back In Town" (Harry Warren, Al Dubin) – 5:02
  5. "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams" (Harry Barris, Ted Koehler, Billy Moll) – 5:37
  6. "I Would Do Most Anything for You" (Mack David) – 6:07
  7. "Englewood" (Russell) – 6:40

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ Prestige Records discography accessed June 30, 2017
  2. ↑ Swingville Label Discography accessed June 30, 2017
  3. 1 2 Yanow, Scott. Swingin' with Pee Wee – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved June 30, 2017.
  4. ↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1252. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
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