Pee Wee et moi Robert Marcel Lepage

- Composer(s): Robert Marcel Lepage, Pee Wee Russell
- Performer(s): Guillaume Bourque, François Houle, Jean-Sébastien Leblanc, André Moisan, Pierre-Emmanuel Poizat, Richard Simas, René Lussier, Normand Guilbeault, Pierre Tanguay
- Cover image: David W Jones
- Graphic design: Jean-François Denis
Coda’s Top Tens of 2006, Ken Waxman
Con un po’ di immaginazione, si può pensare che questa è la musica che avrebbe fatto Russell nel ventunesimo secolo e, forse, non saremmo tanto lontani dal vero. — Musica Jazz, Italy
Une démarche généreuse qui démontre des talents conjoints. — Jazz Notes, Canada
Pee Wee and Me: Lepage has created a sweet and slighly skewed homage to the legendarily idiosyncretic American clarinettist Pee Wee Russell. Each and every blues of this suite are an affectionate tribute to the great swing player. Deeply troubled clarinetist Pee Wee Russell rose to fame through the 1930’s and into the 1950’s where his musicianship was on par with leading jazz players of that time.
“Pee Wee and I are in contrary motion: he was a drinker, played the clarinet in an eccentric style in a conventional world and took up drawing towards the end of his career. I started my own by drawing. I don’t drink, and I play the clarinet in a more or less conventional manner surrounded by eccentric musicians. Pee Wee and I were destined to meet each other. Jazz, also, is a world of encounters. In Pee Wee’s day, traditional musical fanfares springing from European roots were discovering and integrating Afro-American blues. My own musical language also has references to fanfares within a blues context. The distance between the solo and its larger musical context is where Pee Wee and I come from the same family. Add the tendency to transform the clarinet’s timbre and you see where, over time, our paths cross. Each of the blues in this suite is an invitation to explore a particular aspect of Pee Wee’s phrasing. Somewhere along the way, Pee Wee said: “There are hundreds of clarinetists that play better than me, but nobody plays like me.” I’ll buy that line and use it as my own. I would even add that I never even play twice… exactly like myself… This disc is dedicated to my friend Raymond Gervais, who led me to discover Pee Wee Russell.” — Robert Marcel Lepage, Montréal, November 2005
- Ambiances Magnétiques Jazz
- AM 144 / 2005
- UPC/EAN 771028114429
- Total duration: 58:12
Stereo
- 44,1 kHz, 16 bits
- 1Pee Wee’s Blues, 4:15
- 2
- 3Tutti Pee Wee, 4:26
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7Dixie chinois, 4:16
- 8Un, deux, trois, Pee Wee, 3:42
- 9Blues au compte-gouttes, 5:21
- 10Le tire-pois, 3:28
- 11Pee Wee rocks, 3:16
- 12
- 13Le contortionniste, 3:01
- 14Muskogee Blues, 4:45

Pee Wee et moi
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CD 2AM 144CAD 16.95
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Robert Marcel Lepage launches his new album, Pee Wee et moi, a sweet and slighly skewed homage to the legendarily idiosyncretic American clarinettist Pee Wee Russell.
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