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Pee Wee's Blues
1/2. Michael Pointon marks the centenary of jazz clarinettist Pee Wee Russell's birth with a profile of his career. Today a look at his beginnings in St Louis and Chicago in the early 1920s, and the "Nicksieland" years playing at Nick's Club in New York. Producer David Perry
RT DIRECT: Pee Wee Russell with Alex Welsh and His Band is available on CD for £12.99 including p&p. To order, send a cheque, payable to Selections, to: [address removed], or phone: [number removed] (national rate), or visit www.selections.com/rtdirect. Quote ref:[number removed]

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Michael Pointon
Producer:
David Perry
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Alex Welsh
Source: Radio Times

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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