[Dixielandjazz] Especially For the drummers

[Marek Boym]

The playing is excellent - but the sound is awful!
I don't thnk I've ever heard Pee Wee with Monk, but I can see how it
could work - two great eccentrics playing together!  Probably much
bettr than the company Monk usually kept.  Despite the weird harmonies
(or whatever they are), I like his solos, and his work with the Giants
of Jazz (Diz, Kay Winding, Sonny Stitt, Al McKibbon and Art Blakey)
was just great!
Too bad the Tel-Aviv performance at which Stitt played tenor as well
as his usual alto was not recorded, as I believe it was the only time
on the entire tour (including the other performances in Tel-Aviv and
elswhere in Israel) - and I had the good luck to be there!  I wetn
with apprehension, but it was so good that I went again the following
night.
Cheers



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> Funny thing about Pee Wee. Most people think he first played with Thelonious
> Monk at Newport in 1963, but he had jammed with Monk earlier
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