Pee Wee Speaks: A Discography of Pee Wee Russell

Great changes occurred on the jazz scene during Charles Ellsworth 'Pee Wee' Russell, Jr's four-decade recording career, and Pee Wee was always ahead of his contemporaries. Beginning with the previously undocumented first recording session of 16-year-old Russell in 1922, and ending in 1968 with a Mississippi riverboat party shortly before his death, this discography includes all his known commercial recordings worldwide as well as much new information on film soundtracks, private recordings, broadcasts, and concerts. Pee Wee's lengthy recording career spanned sessions with jazz greats from Bix Beiderbecke to Thelonious Monk.

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Pee Wee Speaks: A Discography of Pee Wee Russell

Great changes occurred on the jazz scene during Charles Ellsworth 'Pee Wee' Russell, Jr's four-decade recording career, and Pee Wee was always ahead of his contemporaries. Beginning with the previously undocumented first recording session of 16-year-old Russell in 1922, and ending in 1968 with a Mississippi riverboat party shortly before his death, this discography includes all his known commercial recordings worldwide as well as much new information on film soundtracks, private recordings, broadcasts, and concerts. Pee Wee's lengthy recording career spanned sessions with jazz greats from Bix Beiderbecke to Thelonious Monk.

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Pee Wee Speaks: A Discography of Pee Wee Russell

Pee Wee Speaks: A Discography of Pee Wee Russell

by Robert Hilbert, David Niven
Pee Wee Speaks: A Discography of Pee Wee Russell

Pee Wee Speaks: A Discography of Pee Wee Russell

by Robert Hilbert, David Niven

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Overview

Great changes occurred on the jazz scene during Charles Ellsworth 'Pee Wee' Russell, Jr's four-decade recording career, and Pee Wee was always ahead of his contemporaries. Beginning with the previously undocumented first recording session of 16-year-old Russell in 1922, and ending in 1968 with a Mississippi riverboat party shortly before his death, this discography includes all his known commercial recordings worldwide as well as much new information on film soundtracks, private recordings, broadcasts, and concerts. Pee Wee's lengthy recording career spanned sessions with jazz greats from Bix Beiderbecke to Thelonious Monk.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780810826342
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date: 12/28/1992
Series: Studies in Jazz Series , #13
Pages: 399
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Robert Hilbert, a full time jazz student, has written numerous articles on the subject as well as a discography of James P. Johnson with Scott Brown (Scarecrow, 1986), and a biography of Pee Wee Russell .

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