"Man Blues"" (1997). In a 2011 review of a concert by Allen's jazz band, critic Kirk Silsbee of the ""Los Angeles Times"" suggested that Allen should be regarded a competent musical hobbyist with a sincere appreciation for early jazz: ""Allen's clarinet won't make anyone forget Sidney Bechet, Barney Bigard or Evan Christopher. His piping tone and strings of staccato notes can't approximate melodic or lyrical phrasing. Still his earnestness and the obvious regard he has for traditional jazz counts for something."" Allen and his band played the Montreal International Jazz Festival on two consecutive nights in June 2008. For many"
"Vince Giordano Vince Giordano (March 11, 1952, Brooklyn) is an American saxophonist and leader of the New York-based Nighthawks Orchestra. He specializes in jazz of the 1920s and 1930s and his primary instrument is the bass saxophone. Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks have played on television and film soundtracks, including the HBO series ""Boardwalk Empire"" and Woody Allen's musical comedy film ""Everyone Says I Love You"". When he was five, Giordano listened to music of the 1920s on a wind-up Victrola. When he was 15, he played string bass and bass saxophone professionally and took lessons from Bill Challis to"
"(optional) subtitles. Wild Man Blues Wild Man Blues is a 1997 documentary film directed by Barbara Kopple, about the musical avocation of actor/director/comic Woody Allen. The film takes its name from a jazz composition, sometimes attributed to Jelly Roll Morton and sometimes to Louis Armstrong, and recorded (among others) by each of them. It depicts Allen's love of early 20th century New Orleans music by preserving performances on the 1996 tour in Europe by his New Orleans Jazz Band. Allen has played clarinet with this band for over 25 years. The musicians are: Although their European tour is the primary"
"Ramblers With others Vince Giordano Vince Giordano (March 11, 1952, Brooklyn) is an American saxophonist and leader of the New York-based Nighthawks Orchestra. He specializes in jazz of the 1920s and 1930s and his primary instrument is the bass saxophone. Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks have played on television and film soundtracks, including the HBO series ""Boardwalk Empire"" and Woody Allen's musical comedy film ""Everyone Says I Love You"". When he was five, Giordano listened to music of the 1920s on a wind-up Victrola. When he was 15, he played string bass and bass saxophone professionally and took lessons from"
"Wild Man Blues Wild Man Blues is a 1997 documentary film directed by Barbara Kopple, about the musical avocation of actor/director/comic Woody Allen. The film takes its name from a jazz composition, sometimes attributed to Jelly Roll Morton and sometimes to Louis Armstrong, and recorded (among others) by each of them. It depicts Allen's love of early 20th century New Orleans music by preserving performances on the 1996 tour in Europe by his New Orleans Jazz Band. Allen has played clarinet with this band for over 25 years. The musicians are: Although their European tour is the primary focus, the"
"film music. Allen has been married to Madhur Jaffrey, the Indian-born actress, food and travel writer, and television personality, since 1969. With Ron Carter Sanford Allen Sanford Allen (born 1939) is an African-American classical violinist. At ten, he began studying violin at the Juilliard School of Music and continued at the Mannes School of Music under Vera Fonaroff. He was the first African-American regular member of the Lewisohn Stadium Concerts Orchestra, joining in the summer of 1959. In 1962, shortly after winning the inaugural Young Concert Artists competition, he became the first full-time African-American violinist with the New York Philharmonic."
"this device include Rhonda Vincent. Red Allen (bluegrass) Harley Allen (February 12, 1930April 3, 1993), better known as Red Allen, was an American bluegrass singer and guitarist known for his powerful tenor voice. Allen, born in Pigeon Roost Hollow, near Hazard, Kentucky, grew up in the music-rich hills of eastern Kentucky, and following a stint in the Marines, settled in Dayton, Ohio in 1949, where he began performing professionally. In 1952, Allen discovered a young teenage mandolin virtuoso named Frank Wakefield, who had moved to Dayton from Harriman, Tennessee. Soon Wakefield became a member of Allen's first band, the Blue"
"Marshall Allen Marshall Belford Allen (born May 25, 1924) is an American free jazz and avant-garde jazz alto saxophone player. He also performs on flute, oboe, piccolo, and EVI (an electronic valve instrument made by Steiner, Crumar company). Allen is best known for his work with Sun Ra, having recorded and performed mostly in this context since the late 1950s, and having led Sun Ra's Arkestra since 1993. Critic Jason Ankeny describes Marshall as ""one of the most distinctive and original saxophonists of the postwar era."" Marshall Allen was born in Louisville, Kentucky. During the Second World War he enlisted"
"Red Allen (bluegrass) Harley Allen (February 12, 1930April 3, 1993), better known as Red Allen, was an American bluegrass singer and guitarist known for his powerful tenor voice. Allen, born in Pigeon Roost Hollow, near Hazard, Kentucky, grew up in the music-rich hills of eastern Kentucky, and following a stint in the Marines, settled in Dayton, Ohio in 1949, where he began performing professionally. In 1952, Allen discovered a young teenage mandolin virtuoso named Frank Wakefield, who had moved to Dayton from Harriman, Tennessee. Soon Wakefield became a member of Allen's first band, the Blue Ridge Mountain Boys. The band"
"and peaked at number eighteen in the U.S. with combined sales of over 1.7 million. Allen's second major-label album ""Thank You Camellia"" was released on May 22, 2012, and the lead single ""The Vision of Love"" was released March 26, 2012. Allen released his fifth studio album, ""Letting You In,"" on March 18, 2016. Allen was born in Jacksonville, Arkansas, to Kimberly (née Wood) and Neil Allen. He is the elder of two sons; his younger brother, Daniel, is a college cheerleading coach. Allen's interest in music began very early. He began playing the viola in elementary school and went"
"background vocals on the song ""I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow"" from the ""O Brother, Where Art Thou?"" soundtrack. He won two Grammy Awards for that recording in 2002, in the Best Country Collaboration with Vocals and Album of the Year categories. Allen performed on two bluegrass tribute albums for the British rock band The Moody Blues: ""Moody Bluegrass: A Nashville Tribute to The Moody Blues"" (2004), and ""Moody Bluegrass TWO... Much Love"" (2011). The latter album was released after Allen's death. Allen is survived by his three brothers, Ronnie, Greg and Mark Allens; his sister, Delores Allen; his"
"Eddie Allen (jazz musician) Eddie Allen (born July 12, 1957) is a jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist from Milwaukee. He has worked with Muhal Richard Abrams, Lester Bowie, Art Blakey, Benny Carter, Chico Freeman, Craig Harris, and Dizzy Gillespie. He has used several variants of his name on CDs including: E.J. Allen, Eddie E.J. Allen, and E.J. ""Eddie"" Allen. He also works in Rhythm and Blues and Rock. His rendition of Sade Adu's ""Smooth Operator"" earned praise from Lester Bowie. With Rabih Abou-Khalil With Muhal Richard Abrams With Craig Harris With Teddy Edwards With Louis Hayes With Etta Jones With Houston"
"he formed the Biel Ballester trio. He was introduced to Woody Allen during the filming of Vicky Cristina Barcelona. Allen, a jazz clarinet player, jammed frequently with Ballester during this time and included two of his tracks on the soundtrack of the film. Biel Ballester Biel Ballester (born 1974 in Mallorca, Spain) is a guitarist from Mallorca, Spain. He is best known for playing Gypsy Jazz music and for his contributions to the Woody Allen film ""Vicky Cristina Barcelona"": ""When I Was a Boy"" and ""Your Shining Eyes"". Biel Ballester is from Mallorca in Spain. He studied classical guitar under"
"also participated in the ""Innerzone Orchestra"" together with Francisco Mora Catlett, Carl Craig and others in an appreciation of Sun Ra's music. For Recordings With Sun Ra See: Sun Ra Marshall Allen Marshall Belford Allen (born May 25, 1924) is an American free jazz and avant-garde jazz alto saxophone player. He also performs on flute, oboe, piccolo, and EVI (an electronic valve instrument made by Steiner, Crumar company). Allen is best known for his work with Sun Ra, having recorded and performed mostly in this context since the late 1950s, and having led Sun Ra's Arkestra since 1993. Critic Jason"
"Harry Allen (musician) Harry Allen (born October 12, 1966) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist born in Washington, D.C. Early on he was recognized in high school as an exceptional talent able to play tunes such as ""Body and Soul"" in the style of tenor players Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Flip Phillips, and Sam Donahue. He is a traditionalist in the manner of Scott Hamilton. He is best known for his work with John Colianni, Dori Caymmi, Keith Ingham, John Pizzarelli, and Bucky Pizzarelli. Allen's father, Maurice, was a big band drummer. As a child, his father played records for"
"considered influential. Allen first appeared on ""The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson"" on November 1, 1963 and over nine years his guest appearances included seventeen in the host's chair. He subsequently released three LP albums of live nightclub recordings: the self-titled ""Woody Allen"" (1964), ""Volume 2"" (1965), and ""The Third Woody Allen Album"" (1968) recorded at a fund-raiser for Senator Eugene McCarthy's presidential run. In 1965, Allen had his own TV special in Great Britain called ""The Woody Allen Show."" In 1967 he hosted an episode of ""The Kraft Music Hall"" where he would intersperse humor with interviews of famous"
"Person With Bobby Previte Eddie Allen (jazz musician) Eddie Allen (born July 12, 1957) is a jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist from Milwaukee. He has worked with Muhal Richard Abrams, Lester Bowie, Art Blakey, Benny Carter, Chico Freeman, Craig Harris, and Dizzy Gillespie. He has used several variants of his name on CDs including: E.J. Allen, Eddie E.J. Allen, and E.J. ""Eddie"" Allen. He also works in Rhythm and Blues and Rock. His rendition of Sade Adu's ""Smooth Operator"" earned praise from Lester Bowie. With Rabih Abou-Khalil With Muhal Richard Abrams With Craig Harris With Teddy Edwards With Louis Hayes With"
"and with Mezzrow in 1953. American filmmaker Woody Allen describes taking lessons from Sedric as a young man, ""But the clarinet I mostly played by myself. I called up a jazz musician—quite a well known jazz musician named Gene Sedric, and asked him if he could give me some lessons. And he used to come to my house and he would just sit in the living room with me and play something and say: 'You do it now'. And, and gradually I learned how to ah, how to play."" Gene Sedric Gene Sedric (June 17, 1907, St. Louis, Missouri –"
"Woody Allen (album) Woody Allen is a live 1965 comedy album by the American comedian Woody Allen. This was Allen's debut recording, and was recorded at Mister Kelly's nightclub in Chicago. It was the first of three comedy albums released by Allen, the three albums were issued in a 2014 boxset, ""The Stand-Up Years: 1964–1968"". It was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Performance at the 7th Annual Grammy Awards in 1965; it lost to Bill Cosby's album ""I Started Out as a Child"", which coincidentally had also been recorded at Mister Kelly's. ""Billboard"" magazine highlighted the album"
"of his three solos (the other two involving a valved trombone and a trumpet) in a live performance of his song ""Great Guns"". Japanese free-improvisation trumpeter Toshinori Kondo has played baritone horn on some dates and recordings (e.g., ""Jazz Bunker""), as has saxophonist Ralph Carney (e.g., ""Night on Earth"") Baritone horn The baritone horn, or sometimes just called baritone, is a low-pitched brass instrument in the saxhorn family. It is a piston-valve brass instrument with a bore that is mostly conical, like the flugelhorn and alto (tenor) horn, but is narrower than the conical bore of the euphonium. It uses"
"Joey Allen Joseph Alan Cagle, known professionally as Joey Allen, is best known as the lead guitarist of the American glam metal band Warrant. Allen was born as Joseph Alan Cagle on June 23, 1964 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, but grew up in Irvine, California. His father is a retired electronics executive, while his mother worked for the Irvine Unified School District. He has two older sisters. Allen played in approximately 20 bands before joining Warrant. He endorses GMP guitars, Hughes and Kettner amplifiers and Dean Markley strings. In an interview, his bandmate and co-guitarist from Warrant Erik Turner states"
"supply trade, retiring in 1971. He died in Toronto in 1996 at the age of 93. Allen's nephew, Singer-accordionist Eddie Allen, was a member of The Happy Gang from 1938 to 1959. Les Allen (musician) Les Allen (29 August 1902 – 25 June 1996) was a Canadian saxophonist and vocalist popular in Britain during the 1930s. Allen was born in Ealing, London; at age 3, he and his family moved to Canada. As a child, he played clarinet alongside his father in the Queen's Own Rifles Band and later learned to play the saxophone. Allen performed with the dance bands"
"Woody Allen filmography Woody Allen is an American film director, writer, actor, and comedian. He contributed to many films as either actor, director, writer or sometimes both. Allen wrote four plays for the stage, and has written sketches for the Broadway revue ""From A to Z"", and the Broadway productions ""Don't Drink the Water"" (1966) and ""Play It Again, Sam"" (1969). His first film was the 1965 comedy ""What's New Pussycat?"", which featured him as both writer and performer. Allen felt that his New Yorker humor was mismatched with the director Clive Donner's British sensibility, and decided he wished to"
"a series of recordings and tours. Jerry's rousing style has been featured with many noted New Orleans jazz luminaries including Doc Cheatham, Percy Humphrey and Arvell Shaw. Jerry Zigmont is a regular member of Woody Allen and his New Orleans Jazz Band which plays every Monday evening at Manhattan's Carlyle Hotel. His trombone playing is steeped in the classic New Orleans tradition, with its trademark raw power and ""straight from the heart"" approach. He appears on the soundtrack of the documentary film ""Wild Man Blues"" (directed by Barbara Kopple) which documents a 1996 European tour by Allen and his band."
"Bureau of the Wall Street Journal. Paul was a Guitar World senior writer, also handling Online Editor duties, and began branching out more, writing for diverse publications such as SLAM Magazine, The New Yorker, People, and Entertainment Weekly. In 2005, Blumenstein accepted the China Bureau Chief position with the ""WSJ"". By March 2007, Paul had participated in a jam session with saxophonist (and US Diplomat) Dave Loevinger and guitarist/repair technician Woodie Wu. Paul named the group Woodie Alan, in honor of the late Allen Woody, as well a pop-culture nod to American film autuer Woody Allen. By September, the group"
"Biel Ballester Biel Ballester (born 1974 in Mallorca, Spain) is a guitarist from Mallorca, Spain. He is best known for playing Gypsy Jazz music and for his contributions to the Woody Allen film ""Vicky Cristina Barcelona"": ""When I Was a Boy"" and ""Your Shining Eyes"". Biel Ballester is from Mallorca in Spain. He studied classical guitar under Àlex Garrobé at the Escola D’Arts Musicals Luthier in Barcelona. He discovered the music of Django Reinhardt at age 18 and his music is a fusion of Gypsy Jazz and Spanish music. With Leo Hipaucha (rhythm guitar ) and Oriol González (double bass)"
"Cosmonova in Sweden. In 2002 John Malkovich used Anderson's solo piano version of Bob Dylan’s ""All Along The Watchtower"" in his directorial debut movie ""The Dancer Upstairs"" featuring Oscar winner Javier Bardem. In 2005 Anderson was nominated to the Nobel Peace Prize for his commitment and contribution to peace projects throughout the years. In his music Anderson blends influences from Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan to Johann Sebastian Bach; during his performances he interprets these influences as well as his own songs. Yul Anderson Yul Anderson (born April 23) is an American Pianist, Guitarist, Singer and Inventor who plays a"
"Allen Woody Douglas Allen Woody (October 3, 1955 – August 26, 2000) was an American bass guitarist best known for his eight-year tenure in the Allman Brothers Band and as co-founder of Gov't Mule. After having studied at Vanderbilt's Blair School of Music, Woody joined The Allman Brothers Band along with guitarist Warren Haynes upon the group's reunion in 1989. Woody and Haynes formed side project Gov't Mule in 1994 with former Dickey Betts drummer Matt Abts. Haynes and Woody decided to leave The Allman Brothers Band in 1997 to put a full-time effort into Gov't Mule. Prior to that,"
"knew in his lifetime. Allen Woody Douglas Allen Woody (October 3, 1955 – August 26, 2000) was an American bass guitarist best known for his eight-year tenure in the Allman Brothers Band and as co-founder of Gov't Mule. After having studied at Vanderbilt's Blair School of Music, Woody joined The Allman Brothers Band along with guitarist Warren Haynes upon the group's reunion in 1989. Woody and Haynes formed side project Gov't Mule in 1994 with former Dickey Betts drummer Matt Abts. Haynes and Woody decided to leave The Allman Brothers Band in 1997 to put a full-time effort into Gov't"
"Back Alley John John Carl David Wilson (February 10, 1955 – June 22, 2006), known as Back Alley John, was a Canadian blues singer, songwriter and harmonica player. Born into a strict military family in Ottawa, Ontario, the young John Wilson rebelled and ran away from home, travelling to Venice Beach, California at the age of 14 in a stolen truck. He stayed in Venice for approximately two years, making a living as a busking harmonica player, and it was in Venice that he acquired the name ""Back Alley John"". As his brother, Peter Wilson, recalls, ""When he got (to"
"so impressive [he] decided to keep it as a working instrument. It was at that time that Layne lost his instrument."" A few notable folk musicians have played the instrument and have found it noteworthy. Among these are Jimmy Driftwood (composer of ""The Battle of New Orleans"" and ""Tennessee Stud""), Grammy Award winner Doc Watson and The Bray Brothers, who featured the Mayfield guitalin on their album ""Prairie Bluegrass"" on the tune ""Barbara Allen"" from the label Rounder Records, originally recorded in 1962 for WHOW radio in Clinton, Illinois. Recordings of these musicians with the guitalin can be found on"
"Doug Ostgard Doug Ostgard is a professional musician specializing in woodwinds. He has backed up an impressive list of showbiz greats, from Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett and Johnny Mathis to Rosemary Clooney, Lena Horne and Ann-Margret. Doug Ostgard is currently a woodwinds player located in Western Washington. He plays a dazzling array of instruments including saxophone, bassoon, oboe, flute and clarinet. He has released an album entitled ""Silhouette"" in 2007 in collaboration with seven time Emmy winner and Grammy nominee Steven Ray Allen. Doug has played in a variety of venues, such as 5th Avenue, the Paramount Theater, and a"
"colleges, and other venues from Maine to North Carolina. They sometimes perform for children, and they continue to receive airplay on kids' radio programs. They officially disbanded in 1994 but have reunited several times since. A poster advertising the band is visible briefly during a scene in the 1993 film Manhattan Murder Mystery, behind Woody Allen's character. Washboard Jungle Washboard Jungle is a four-man group that combines elements of folk music, classic rock, comedy, dance, and performance art. The members include Bob Goldberg (keyboards, accordion, bulbul tarang, percussion, vocals), Henry Hample (banjo, fiddle, mandolin, ukulele, percussion, vocals), McPaul Smith (bass"