Pee Wee Ellis - The Storyteller - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

For his first all-instrumental album, slide guitar master Sonny Landreth assembled an extraordinary group of musicians that included guest guitarists Joe Satriani and Eric Johnson, steel drum legend Robert Greenidge and members of the Acadiana Symphony Orchestra directed by Maestro Mariusz Smolij. With elements from many different musical influences - rock, blues, classical, zydeco, country, jazz and reggae - Landreths melodic and harmonically rich compositions shift seamlessly and astonishingly to make this his most diverse and adventurous work to date.

These 22 rare tracks capture a creative highpoint in Pee Wee Russell's unique career. Features Lionel Hampton, Fats Waller, Eddie Condon, Jack Teagarden and others. Digitally restored, this material makes it's first time ever appearance on CD. Deluxe booklet features rare photos.

This recording is a witness to the last passage of a rich musical heritage that fascinated figures such as Bela Bartok and Zoltan Kodaly the last masters and the first disciples are reunited, who will be the reference for subsequent generations in a completely different social context.Numerous styles of dance and song - often accompanied by the recorder, bagpipes, reed, hurdy-gurdy, zither, tambura lute, violin, cymbalum, gardon viol (with struck strings) or spoons- form the basis of traditional Hungarian music songs of the old style linked to weddings, traditional quests, winter and summer solstice bonfires...; and the new style nourished by contributions from Serbian, Swabian and Slovakian neighbouring cultures...; As for the Gypsies, dance and a cappella songs play a predominant role, in a style that is often spectacular and whose vocabulary, sometimes very bold, is that of everyday life, mixed with the most delicate poetry.