(traditional jazz, new orleans) [CD] Newport Jazz Festival All Stars - Newport Jazz Festival All Stars (1960) - 2010, FLAC (tracks), lossless

This album was recorded at Storyville in Boston, in early 1959, by an ensemble of jazz artists selected to open the Newport Jazz Festival later that year. The musicians were relatively old-school even then: Buck Clayton (trumpet) and Vic Dickenson (trombone), from the Kansas City scene; Pee Wee Russell (clarinet) and Bud Freeman (tenor sax) from the Chicago school; and Champ Jones (bass), Jake Hanna (drums), and festival promoter George Wein (piano). The music alternates between New Orleans-style ensemble playing and soloing; Clayton, Russell, and Freeman all do good work, and George Wein plays a pretty good piano too. The most distinctive tracks are "Dinah", which is given a slow arrangement, and "Pee Wee Russell's Unique Sound", a showcase for the clarinetist's individualistic style.

Buck Clayton - trumpet
Vic Dickenson - trombone
Bud Freeman - tenor saxophone
Pee Wee Russell - clarinet
George Wein - piano
Champ Jones - bass
Jake Hanna - drums