Elbert "Pee Wee" Claybrook (March 13, 1912 – February 25, 1996) was a tenor saxophonist from St. Louis, Missouri.
He began his musical career in the late 1930s playing with the Fate Marable Mississippi riverboat band.
[1] In 1942, Pee Wee and his buddy Clark Terry were inducted into the U.S. Navy, and sent to the Great Lakes Naval Training Station band near Chicago, Illinois.
[2][3][4][5] Claybrook hailed from St. Louis Missouri helping to kindle the big band music scene along with Clark Terry, trumpeter, bands like George Hudson's Orchestra,[6] Eddie Randall's Blue Devils,[7] Dewey Jackson, Jeter-Pillars Orchestra, St. Louis Crackerjacks.
In 1995, Peewee reunited with his longtime navy and musical friend Clark Terry for a historic reunion concert at Berkeley's The Freight and Salvage Club.