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Cutty and Zutty were there. So were Peanuts, Woody, Yank, Wingy, Red, Pee Wee and Willie the Lion.* Sammy Davis Jr. was supposed to come, but he pleaded "fatigue" at the last minute and didn't show. Just as well: he would have seemed out of place at this reunion of jazz's elder statesmen, come to celebrate one of their...
...Trombonist Robert ("Cutty") Cutshall; Trumpeters John ("Yank") Lawson, Henry ("Red") Allen, Joseph ("Wingy") Manone; Drummer Arthur ("Zutty") Singleton; Clarinetists Charles ("Pee Wee") Russell, Michael ("Peanuts") Hucko; Bandleader Wood-row ("Woody") Herman; Pianist Willie ("The Lion") Smith...
...college-age jazz lover who was raised on Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Lionel Hampton and plenty of joyful foot tapping, and who right now has Pee Wee Russell and John Coltrane stacked on the same record changer, I feel that TIME has quietly scored a real triumph in its recent jazz reporting [June 28]. Congratulations on exposing the hippies and the pretensions of John Lewis, Paul Winter and the rest of the "concert jazz" set. NEIL STILLINGS Appleton...
...meeting of Thelonious Monk, a musical revolutionary, and the Dixieland clarinetist Pee Wee Russell was a flop. There is little enough in common between them, and Monk was uncompromising. It was Russell who had to do the adjusting, and in the process his watery tones lost whatever vitality they might have otherwise had. The concert closed with the 21-piece Stan Kenton orchestra...
...jazz. His cleanly phrased solos are tightly conceived, angular little tone poems. Though he takes great liberties with rhythm, his superb sense of timing prevents him from losing the feeling of swing. Rollins' meeting with Coleman Hawkins created the kind of excitement which Thelonious Monk's meeting with Pee Wee Russell completely failed to engender. The exchange of ideas between Rollins, with his jabbing, knife-like tones, and the mellower Hawkins, was like a friendly debate between two great philosophers. Unlike Monk and Russell, the two tenor saxophonists had enough in common to make a meeting valuable...