Elbert "Pee Wee" Claybrook (March 13, 1912 - February 25, 1996) is a prominent tenor saxophonist from St. Louis, Missouri. He lives over 50 years playing jazz swing music. He began his musical career in the late 1930s playing with the band the Fate Marable Mississippi river boat.
In the 1930s, he played with many famous jazz artists such as Jimmy Blanton, Jimmy Forrest, Sid Catlett, Art Blakey, Edison Sweets, and Clark Terry. In 1942, Pee Wee and his friend, Clark Terry, were inducted into the US Navy, and sent to the band of the Great East Naval Training Station Station near Chicago, Illinois. In 1944, he was reassigned to the Navy Pre-Flight School located in St. Louis. Mary's College in Moraga, California.
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Mr. Claybrook is a major contributor to the Jazz Bay Area scene for over 50 years. She plays with Swing Fever Band performing in many Northern California jazz clubs, concert tours, the Monterey Jazz Festival, the Cotati Jazz Festival and the Los Angeles Classic Jazz Festival. Due to the immense influence in the music scene in Jazz music in Northern California, the Napa Valley Jazz Festival established the "Peewee Claybrook Award". Thanks to Peewee's collaboration with Clark Terry, her voice was heard and recognized by an international jazz audience.
St. Louis is known for jazz. It is a famous historical center where Jazz artists foster the development of influential jazz music, and envelop the world with its amazing musical gifts to the world. To name a few musicians along with Pee Wee Claybrook who turned on the band's great music at St. Louis is; Clark Terry, trumpet player, bands like George Hudson Orchestra, Blue Devils Eddie Randall, Dewey Jackson, Jeter-Pillars Orchestra, St. Louis Crackerjacks. These clubs are part of this creation and development, including Plantation, Four Roses, Golden Lily. Racism is part of the Jazz neighborhood at St. Louis. The Plantation Club Louis is for the 'White Only' customer. The Plantation Club does not allow Black musicians to socialize with their white customers, or enter the club through the front door. They make St. Louis is known worldwide for his contributions in music and jazz. Many artists are raised in the fog of these creative geniuses like; Jimmy Forrest, Jimmy Blanton, Miles Davis. Many creative inventors consisting of sound, form, and jazz run into St. Louis like; The Smith tab, Shorty Baker, Floyd Smith (musician), Walter Page, Kenny Clarke, Sid Catlett, Art Blakey, and Harry "Sweets" Edison came to St. Louis to be part of the triumph of major bands in St. Louis.
St. Louis is the center for music and dance, like the Louis stag. It was a place where artists such as Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Cab Calloway, Jimmie Lunceford came to play with many of the seasoned musicians in St. Louis. Louis, like Pee Wee Claybrook. Many creative music artists Louis was recruited into the military during World War II. Music plays a big role in matters on the battlefield and at home. It has a huge effect on the music scene at St. Louis. It was devastating for Jazz in St. Louis.
In 1944 Pee Wee Claybrook was transferred to the West to California. The era of big band began to fade after World War II. Once on Navy Pee Wee lives in California, and plays with Earl Hines known as (Earl "Fatha" Hines) in San Francisco. Pee Wee continued her musical relationship with Vernon Alley, who was also a member of the 45-piece US Navy band regiment at the Navy Pre-Flight School located at St. Louis. Mary's College, in Moraga, California. He is a family man and 'he keeps his job'. He bought a home in a new community, Parchester Village, Richmond, California, developed after World War II.
In 1995, Peewee reunited with his old navy and his musical companion, Clark Terry, for a historic reunion concert at the Berkeley'sThe Freight and Salvage Club. The reunion was recorded and Pee Wee was in excellent form on his tenor saxophone at the age of 84. The session was released in 1995 as the reunion album: Clark Terry and Pee Wee Claybrook .
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Discography
- Reunion: Clark Terry and Pee Wee Claybrook , released November 21, 1995
- Grand Master of Jazz , released Oct. 15, 2013 on the Openart label, with Swing Fever Big Band
References
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