{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album| | name = Ask Me Now! | type = Album | artist = Pee Wee Russell | cover = Ask Me Now!.jpg | alt = | released = 1965 | recorded = April 9 & 10, 1963 | venue = | studio = | genre = Jazz | length = 38:02 | label = Impulse! | producer = Bryan Koniarz | chronology = Pee Wee Russell | prev_title = Gumbo | prev_year = 1965 | next_title = The College Concert | next_year = 1966 }}

'''''Ask Me Now!''''' is an album by American jazz clarinetist Pee Wee Russell featuring trombonist Marshall Brown recorded in 1963 for the Impulse! label.<ref name="Impulse! Records discography">[http://www.jazzdisco.org/impulse-records/catalog-9000-series/#a-96 Impulse! Records discography] accessed April 11, 2011</ref>

==Reception== The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 5 stars stating "It is a remarkable and very lyrical date that briefly rejuvenated the career of this veteran individualist".<ref name="Allmusic">Yanow, S. [http://www.allmusic.com/album/ask-me-now-r146762 Allmusic Review] accessed April 11, 2011</ref> {{Music ratings | rev1 = ''Allmusic'' | rev1Score = {{rating|5|5}}<ref name="Allmusic"/> |rev2 = ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings'' |rev2score = {{Rating|3|4}}<ref name="Penguin">{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=1252}}</ref> |rev3 = ''The Vinyl District'' |rev3score = A+<ref name="Vinyl">Neff, Joseph. [http://www.thevinyldistrict.com/storefront/2012/09/graded-on-a-curve-the-pee-wee-russell-quartet-ask-me-now/ Graded on a Curve: The Pee Wee Russell Quartet, Ask Me Now!] accessed March 31, 2021</ref> }}

==Track listing== # "Turnaround" (Ornette Coleman) - 4:14 # "How About Me?" (Irving Berlin) - 4:16 # "Ask Me Now!" (Thelonious Monk) - 2:30 # "Some Other Blues" (John Coltrane) - 3:16 # "I'd Climb the Highest Mountain" (Lew Brown, Sidney Clare) - 3:26 # "Licorice Stick" (Marshall Brown) - 3:36 # "Prelude to a Kiss" (Duke Ellington, Irving Gordon, Irving Mills) - 2:41 # "Baby, You Can Count on Me" (Freddie Stewart) - 5:01 # "Hackensack" (Monk) - 3:37 # "Angel Eyes (Earl Brent, Matt Dennis) - 2:51 # "Calypso Walk" (Marshall Brown) - 2:34 *Recorded in New York City on April 9 & 10, 1963

==Personnel== *Pee Wee Russell - clarinet *Marshall Brown - valve trombone, bass trumpet *Russell George - double bass *Ronnie Bedford - drums

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