[Dixielandjazz] Pee Wee and Monk (was Especially For the drummers)

Bill Haesler bhaesler at bigpond.net.au
Sat Oct 22 16:43:12 PDT 2011


Marek Boym wrote in part:
> 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!  

Dear Marek,
Here is "Nutty" from the Newport Jazz Festival Concert on 4th July 1963.
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PTuG-SANPE
with Charlie Rouse (ts) Butch Warren (sb) and Frankie Dunlop (d). 
About a 3 1/2 minutes solo starting at approx. 4:30.
The other tune together in the concert was "Blue Monk".
Robert Hilbert, in his biography "Pee Wee Russell, The Life Of A Jazzman", quotes Pee Wee as not being happy with the Newport performance.
"No rehearsal, just pushed onto the stage. and I didn't fit into that group."
I couldn't find any earlier reference in the Hilbert book to Monk and the Loft. 
No Index!
I wonder if Steve B has an approximate date.
Very kind regards,
Bill.


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