| Clarinetist Pee Wee Russell is
one of those unique players that comes along only once in a lifetime. Known
as much for his unique style consisting of squeeks and overtones as for
the mournful expression on his face, Pee Wee was born in St. Louis and
began playing clarinet in Muskogee Oklahoma which is famous for giving
the jazz world pianist Jay McShann. Pee Wee's career in jazz began in the
early 1920's in Chicago with Bix
Beiderbecke and Frank
Trumbauer, cutting his first sides with Red
Nichols and his Five Pennies in 1929. The band also featured Glen
Miller and Jack Teagarden
on trombones, Bud Freeman on tenor sax and Eddie Condon
on guitar. |
 
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