Ask Me Now!
Recording Date:
April 9-10, 1963
Personnel:
Marshall Brown VTB,BTP
Pee Wee Russell CL
Russell George B
Ronnie Bedford D
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Reviewby Scott Yanow
After a lifetime spent playing unusual and unpredictable clarinet solos in Dixieland settings, Russell late in life broke out of the stereotype and played in more modern settings. This Impulse LP (begging to be reissued on CD) has his clarinet placed in a pianoless quartet with valve trombonist Marshall Brown, playing tunes by John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, and Ornette Coleman, along with some classic ballads. It is a remarkable and very lyrical date that briefly rejuvenated the career of this veteran individualist.
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