Pee Wee Ellis makes the cover of The American
The transatlantic magazine THE AMERICAN was established in 1976. The current issue (July-August 2020) features an interview with legendary saxophonist Pee Wee Ellis. (pages 42 to 44). You can read the article in The American’s digital edition which is here.
Pee Wee Ellis: ‘America was built on slavery and exploitation – but change is coming’
Martin Chilton from The INDEPENDENT interviewed Pee Wee Ellis (June 2020).
You can find the very interesting article is here.
The Influence Project
Join Pee Wee Ellis (and my more) on a virtual exhibition tour:

Stay In The House Fund Raiser
A few words from Pee Wee and friends to brighten up another locked-down day. Enjoy the music and don’t forget all the musicians who can’t work for the foreseeable future by making a donation, if you can, to:
Help Musicians:
https://www.helpmusicians.org.uk/support-our-work/make-a-donation
Jazz Foundation of America:
Feeling the funk: James Brown, Civil Rights and the tough, raw sounds of funk
Wie recommend this review by Kevin Le Gendre.
Here’s the link to the article on TLS.
Pee Wee Ellis in the 1970’s
This video is about the recording period of Pee Wee Ellis during the 1970’s in New York. After he had left James Brown and before he joined Van Morrison. You will be introduced to the albums of Pee Wee Ellis with Esther Phillips, George Benson, Sonny Stitt, Brother Jack McDuff, The Blues Magoos and many more. Also an album from Pee Wee’s own label SMOKE HOUSE RECORDS was added to this movie. The film was produced one year ago when Pee Wee Ellis & Ian Shaw talked about this interesting period at the BLUES & JAZZ FESTIVAL in Bristol, in March 2019. For the first time we now bring this video to the public. Enjoy!
Danny Pike interviews Pee Wee Ellis on BBC SOUNDS
26/02/2020
Pee Wee Ellis speaks about joining the James Brown Band and introduces his new project FUNK: A MUSIC REVOLUTION
To listen to the interview please go to time point 01:09:08 after following this link to BBC SOUNDS.
Please don’t miss to check the tour dates.
Funk legend who penned ‘Cold Sweat’ with James Brown plays version with students
For watching the video and reading the article please follow this link.