Robert Marcel Lepage: Pee Wee et moi: description

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Pee Wee et moi

Robert Marcel Lepage: Russell

Pee Wee et moi

Ambiances Jazz | AM 144 | 2005

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Pee Wee et moi

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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

1

Pee Wee’s Blues (Russell)

4m15s
2

Pee Wee fait des archaïsmes, moi je fais des anachronismes (Lepage)

3m40s
3

Tutti Pee Wee (Lepage)

4m26s
4

Pee Wee a des papillons sur les doigts (Lepage)

3m50s
5

Pee Wee souffre d’une labyrinthite (Lepage)

4m00s
6

Pee Wee joue aux échelles et serpents (Lepage)

4m55s
7

Dixie chinois (Lepage)

4m16s
8

Un, deux, trois, Pee Wee (Lepage)

3m42s
9

Blues au compte-gouttes (Lepage)

5m21s
10

Le tire-pois (Lepage)

3m28s
11

Pee Wee rocks (Lepage)

3m16s
12

Portrait de Pee Wee à la face longue (Lepage)

4m39s
13

Le contortionniste (Lepage)

3m01s
14

Muskogee Blues (Russell)

4m45s

total duration

58m12s

UPC / EAN 771028114429

Robert Marcel Lepage: Pee Wee et moi: description

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