Word: pee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rarest syncopated heat. Last week Condon went on the air for the first of 13 weekly broadcasts (Blue Network, Sat. 3:30 E.W.T.). His opening burst, a wow, featured such vintage improvisers as Trumpeters Max Kaminsky and Oran "Hot Lips" Page, Trombonist Milfred "Miff" Mole, Clarinetist Ellsworth "Pee Wee" Russell, Pianist James P. "Jimmy" Johnson...
...young musician of 17, playing saxophone with a local radio orchestra, when he contracted in fantile paralysis. Then followed a year in an iron lung and three more in bed. He switched from sax to clarinet, deriving his musical inspiration from an excellent recorded library by Tesch, Huntz Hall, Pee Wee, and others steeped in the musical traditions of the Mississippi delta...
...something of a hotrock clarinetist and a pretty damn fine guy. A siege of infantile paralysis several years ago nearly put Charlie out for the count, but after eight months in an iron lung he picked up fast and now plays clarinet as tirelessly as ever from a wheelchair. Pee Wee Russell and Frank Teschemacher represent his school of hot clarinet, and Charlie is an apt pupil. His record collection is one of the best in New England, and Charlie's home has for years been a regular stop for visiting jazz musicians, many of whom have cut discs...
...Tang, a well-known Chinese musician and graduate of the Chinese National Institute of Music and now studying at Yale's Graduate School of Music, will play some typical Chinese instruments; the hoo-chin, similar to the western violin in construction but with a different tuning scale, and the pee-bah, comparable to the Occidental guitar, will be demonstrated. Indian and Turkish students may play some of their instruments also, notably the Indian flute. Native folk songs and Chinese opera scenes will be presented against an Oriental backdrop of Chinese landscape murals...
Small Four. George Burns had an early training in antics. Born Nat Birnbaum into a family of twelve children on Manhattan's crowded Pitt Street, he began his theatrical career of necessity at the age of seven, after his father died. George organized the Pee-Wee Quartet, featuring himself and a six-year-old basso. The four took turns passing the hat in saloons and backyards...