Word: wee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wee Erwin's Dixieland band plays with vigor verging on skill and humor verging on corn at Nick's, at the corner of Seventh and 10th...
...charity ward of San Francisco Hospital last week a reporter found a wasted, melancholy man who had once tootled with the top jazz men in the land. Now, his money all spent, his liver almost gone from years of lost weekends, famed Hot Clarinetist "Pee Wee" Russell still had "a chance to live," the doctors said...
...them, Aberdeen Engineer Gordon Murray, leader of the tiny Scottish Republican Party, which had once boasted that it had designs on the Stone, said: "We would certainly like to take the credit, but I'm afraid we properly can't." Bouncy, kilt-wearing Mrs. Wendy ("Wee Wendy") Wood, leader of the Scottish Patriots' Association, who in 1932 roused her followers to tear down the British flag from Stirling Castle, said: "It's the best news I have heard in years. The Stone was retrieved, not stolen." Her group did not take it, she hastened...
...Street between Fifth and Sixth. Pops Foster was already the best bass player when your father was half your age. Wild Bill Davison leads the band at Eddie Condon's 3rd Street emporium, along with Edmond Hall and Gene Schroeder. Ralph Sutton plays between sets. Nick's features Pee Wee Erwin's enthusiastic group at 10th and Seventh...
...between Sixth and Fifth Avenues. Such giants of American music as Jimmy Archey, Pops Foster, and Tommy Henford are oking out their livelihoods there now. Back downtown, Eddle Condon's 47 West 3rd, features Davison, Edmund Hall, and Ralph Sutton. Nick's, Seventh Avenue and 10th, employs Pee Wee Erwin's ensemble at present. Birdland, Broadway and 52nd, has a considerably less garish bill of fare than usual, headed by Art Tatum and Lennie Tristano's popular group...