Pee Wee Russell

Nacimiento : 1906-03-27, Maple Wood, Missouri, USA

Muerte : 1969-02-15

Películas

Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes
Self (voice) (archive footage)
Explore la visión detrás del icónico sello discográfico de jazz estadounidense. Desde 1939, los artistas de Blue Note han sido alentados a ampliar los límites creativos en busca de expresiones intransigentes. A través de sesiones de grabación actuales, archivos raros y conversaciones con artistas icónicos de Blue Note, la película revela una perspectiva íntima de un legado que sigue siendo vital en el clima político actual. Paisajes, ciudades, disputas y abrazos, tranquilidad, ritmo agitado, trabajo, autocontrol -duda, alegría, pasión.
Louis Prima: The Wildest!
Himself (archive footage)
Documentary about the mid-20th century Vegas bandleader and trumpeter Louis Prima, who showed the world what a rock show could be.
The Sound of Jazz
"The Sound of Jazz" es un episodio histórico de la serie de antología "The Seven Lively Arts" que presenta a grandes del jazz en concierto. Presentado por John Crosby, ofrece algunas actuaciones fascinantes de Count Basie, Billie Holliday, Thelonious Monk y muchos más. Este programa de 58 minutos es una transmisión verdaderamente original y única del CBS Studio 58 en Nueva York el 8 de diciembre de 1957.
Jazz Dance
Himself
Few films wield the awesome spiritual power of Jazz Dance, on which Leacock was one of two cameramen charting the slow, smoldering build of a Manhattan dance club from idle space to explosive, carnal bacchanal. Employing handheld cameras, limited light and sheer proximity, the film achieved an intimacy never before witnessed in a documentary.
Swing It
Himself
Louis Prima, between song numbers, tells how he happened to get a job in a Hollywood cafe playing music while a couple, unrelated to anything else, play a slot machine in the background. This short was reissued in 1944 and again in 1952. Lucille Ball has a bit part. Song numbers include; "Way Down Yonder in New Orleans", "Up a Lazy River", "Dinah","Basin Street Blues" and "Johnny Get Your Gun."
Red Nichols and His Five Pennies
Himself - Musician
This Vitaphone short features Red Nichols and His Five Pennies performing songs, including China Boy, Nobody's Sweetheart, Ida Sweet as Apple Cider, and Who Cares?.