Pee Wee Moore

Numa Smith "Pee Wee" Moore (March 5, 1928 – April 13, 2009) was an American jazz saxophonist.

[1] Moore was born in Raleigh, North Carolina and attended Washington High School in Raleigh and the Hampton Institute in Virginia,[2] where he switched his major from pre-med to music after one semester.

While traveling back to Hampton from New York, Pee Wee, while asleep in the backseat of his friend’s car, lost his left eye in an accident.

[3] Moore moved from New York back to Raleigh in the 1970s to care for his mother and recover from alcohol addiction.

There, he earned a living as a handyman while playing regularly at a variety of venues in the Raleigh-Durham area.