Thursday, February 12, 2009

pee wee marquette


tales of times square/black cracker scribe josh alan friedman sent this pic of pee wee marquette, the diminutive "voice of birdland" whose introductions graced a number of blue note recordings from the '50s, famously sampled by us3 on "cantaloop (flip fantasia)" in 1993.



last year, some nutball released a compilation cd of pee wee's spiel, entitled every night at birdland: the lost introductions. could be the greatest thing to hit wax (or shiny silver disc, whatevah) since having fun with elvis onstage. you see one of these, you let me know.

3 Comments:

Anonymous Geoff Wilkinson said...

Ha ha - just saw this!

Blue Note CEO Bruce Lundvall told me that Miles Davis used to call him "half a motherfucker"!

Classic!

Geoff Wilkinson
Us3
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4:12 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

i just noticed the date of the review of the "pee wee album" on allaboutjazz..........

Cheers!!

Geoff Wilkinson
Us3

4:15 PM  
Blogger L. Ron Jeremy said...

Actually, it was Lester Young who first called Pee Wee "half a mutherfucker."And for good reason. Pee Wee was known to take no shit off anyone, ever.

7:24 PM  

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