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Pee Wee Erwin, a little man with a big sound.

We were fortunate enough to have a Music Teacher who disregarded the rules of propriety (he would be arrested today) and would take his students into NYC to 52 Street, bribe the owners to let him bring a gaggle of 14 & 15 year olds into the bars and listen to some of the greatest jazz players of all times.

It was at Jimmy Ryan's that we first heard Pee Wee and were blown away by the joyous energy of him and his band. Dixieland Jazz at its finest.

Later we would see Pee Wee at the Binghamton Floating Restaurant in Edgewater NJ on Tuesday Nights. There we met the likes of Johnny Mince, Kenny Davern, Marty Napolean and other Jazz greats.

Our music teacher organized a series of Jazz concerts at our school at the tail end of the 70s. Here is Pee Wee playing his version of Temptation Rag with Derek Smith on piano and Bobby Rosengarden on Drums.