Esther Phillips & Pee Wee Ellis live in Montreux...
This is exciting!
18.06.2024
"PERFORMANCE" 50 years old this year
In May 1974, at Rudy Van Gelder’s studio in Englewood Cliffs NJ, Pee Wee led the session for Esther’s newest recording, having been her conductor, arranger, and producer at CTI/Kudu as...
18.03.2024
Remembering Ernie Fields Jr.
So sad to lose another wonderful musician, renowned contractor, good friend and unforgettable character, Ernie Fields Jr., at the grand age of 90.
Here is Ernie; as he called it 'back in th...
29.08.2023
'I still cry': Powerful Rochester mural captures what was...
Sisters of Pee Wee Ellis, pose for a portrait by the Clarissa Street Uprooted Mural underneath the I-490 Highway before it’s unveiling in Rochester, N.Y. on Aug. 17, 2023.
Georgia Press...
22.07.2023
Pee Wee Ellis & Esther Phillips • Black Eyed...
In July 1973 ESTHER PHILLIPS recorded the album BLACK-EYED BLUES, at the legendary Rudy Van Gelder Studio in New Jersey. PEE WEE arranged and conducted the album, also playing alto sax o...
08.06.2023
Pee Wee Ellis & James Brown LIVE at the...
During June of 1967 The James Brown Show appeared at the Apollo Theater in Harlem for 10 days, playing 6 shows a day to sell-out audiences who had lined up on 125th Street and around the bl...
