- Title: AFPP-100
- Summary: ART FEIN POKER PARTY - EPISODE 149: EPISODE 149 - MARCH 23, 1988 SAXOPHONE PARTY, LEE ALLEN, GARTH HUDSON, BIG JAY MCNEELY
- Description:01:00:49 - ART FEIN INTRODUCES HIS GUESTS - LEE ALLEN ( RHYTHM & BLUES TENOR SAXOPHONE PLAYER WITH FATS DOMINO BAND AND OTHERS ), GARTH HUDSON ORGANIST WITH LEVON HELM " THE BAND " 01:01:18 - ART FEIN TALKS TO THE MUMBLING GARTH HUDSON WHO TALSK ABOUT THE RECENT ACTIVITIES OF THE BAND - TALKS ABOUT PLAYING THE CURVED SOPRANO SAXOPHONE 01:03:12 - GARTH HUDSON TALKS ABOUT FIRST HEARING RONNIE HAWKINS AND THE HAWKS AND JOINING HIS BAND - THE ORIGINAL " HAWKS " WITH RONNIE HAWKINS, LEVON HELM AND ROBBIE ROBERTSON " I DIDN'T HAVE THE CHOPS FOR ROCKABILLY " TALKS ABOUT THE EARLY VERSION OF THE BAND/ THE HAWKS " WE WERE TOGETHER AS A GROUP FROM 1960-1977 " 01:05:05 - ART FEIN INTERVIEWS LEE ALLEN SAXOPHONIST - TALKS ABOUT PLAYING ON THE LITTLE RICHARD EARLY RECORDS, FATS DOMINO , - " I WAS IN THE STUDIO BAND COSIMO MATASSA " 01:06:40 - ART PLAYS A BIT OF THE ORIGINAL RECORD OF " WALKING WITH MR. LEE " FOR LEE ALLEN - LEE ALLEN TALKS ABOUT PLAYING NOW ( 1988) WITH THE BLASTERS 01:07:48 - ART INTRODUCES BIG JAY MCNEELY ( HONKING SAXOPHONIST ) 01:10:34 - ART FEIN INTERVIEWS BIG JAY MCNEELY ABOUT WHEN HE FORST STARTING PLAYING " I FIRST - ART FEIN ASKS JAY MCNEELY ABOUT THE " HONKERS" SOUND - STARTED PLAYING JAZZ, 1946- 47, WENT TO FEDERAL RECORDS AND RECORD MY SOLO RECORDS " JAY MCNEELY TALKS ABOUT THE " HONKIN' STYLE" ON THE SAXOPHONE 01:16:48 - ART FEIN INTERVIEWS LEE ALLEN ABOUT TOURING OVERSEAS WITH FATS DOMINO - TALKS ABOUT WORKING " OFF AND ON" WITH FATS DOMINO - WHEN HE TAKES A REST I TRY TO STAY BUSY - LEE ALLEN TALKS ABOUT BEING FROM DENVER AND MOVING TO NEW ORLEANS WHEN HE WAS SEVENTEEN - TALKS ABOUT JAZZ AND RHYTHM & BLUES - LEE ALLEN TALKS ABOUT BEING FLEXIBLE IN HIS PLAYING SO HE CAN KEEP WORKING 01:19:00 - ART TALKS ALTO GARTH HUDSON ABOUT HIS SAXOPHONE PLAYING - PLAYED WITH A BAND IN 1958 JUST ON SAXOPHONE " PAUL LONDON AND THE CAPERS" JUST PLAYED SAX WITH THAT BAND. GARTH HUDSON TALKS ABOUT THE DIFFERENT SAXOPHONES HE PLAYED - TALKS ABOUT LOSING INSTRUMENTS IN HIS FIRE 01:22:29 - ART FEIN INTERVIEWS LEGENDARY RHYTHM AND BLUES SAXOPHONIST LEE ALLEN ABOUT HIS EARLY YEARS PLAYING SESSIONS IN NEW ORLEANS " WHEN RECORDING STARTED IN NEW ORLEANS IN 1947 I STARTED - I WAS IN ON THE GROUND FLOOR - I RECORDED BEFORE FATS MADE HIS FIRST RECORD - I WAS WITH DAVE BARTHOLOMEW FIRST 01:23:36 - BIG JAY MCNEELY TALKS ABOUT RECORDING ON FEDERAL RECORDS AND SAVOY RECORDS IN LOS ANGELES - TALKS ABOUT HIS EARLY TRAVELING IN THE LATE 1940'S PACKAGE TOURS - "TOP TEN ACTS" TOURS
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1988
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1980s
- File Name: AFPP-100