Welcome to Music for Life, enhancing the Armstrong concert experience. I'm your host, Ryan Malone. In today's special episode, we have another one of our Live from Armstrong presentations. We have been given permission to broadcast the January 16, 2020 Legends of Dixieland concert presented by Oklahoma City-based trumpet player David B. Hooten. In our previous new episode, which can be found in our archives, we discussed this trumpeter at length, but now you can hear the majority of his actual concert. So if you missed this joyous event, stick around and you'll hear it today on Music for Life.
Trumpeter David B. Hooten and the six other instrumentalists joining him on stage entered the stage with Battle Hymn of the Republic to open their first half. After that, we'll hear 5'2", St. Louis Blues, and an original composition by David Hooten called Hootie's Blues to end the first half. I'll leave in some of the talking that he did to help set up some of the songs and to introduce the band members themselves. Thank you all very much. Is everybody having fun so far? Okay, good.
Now, tonight we're going to do this a little differently. I know this is a gorgeous concert hall, by the way. You all know that. Most of you have been here. This is my first time to play here, and so I'm honored to be here. And I know the weather has kept a few people away, but they'll make their way in. It's just going to take them a little longer. And we're going to make this kind of like a Dixieland night at my old restaurant, Mama Lucia's. What we did was it was a lot of fun, and we went through a lot of different parts of it, and we talked about different things. And so that's what we're going to do tonight is just recreate that. So it should be a lot of fun, but it means you guys have to participate.
So there is our audience participation. And now the first half is very short on purpose because the second half is really, really important. So you don't want to miss that part. So anyway, just a word to the wise. Thank you all very much. I want to introduce some of these guys here to you. Some of them you know, some of them you don't. On keyboard is the best piano player in the world. And I know that because I've recorded with a lot of piano players and I've played all over the world. And this guy is the best, Don Johnson.
Most of you know that he's music director for Emily Harris, does all kinds of things, played with everybody in the world, so I won't go through his resume. And then back behind him, wonderful bass player, and he's been playing with me for 30 years, which is kind of sad because I'm not that old. I started really young. But anyway, John Cole on bass. And then back on drums, this guy, we played in the recording sessions with Bob Snyder, and it was really, really fun stuff. I've gotten to play a lot of concerts with him, but haven't played lately because he's been on the road with Darcy Lynn. And he kind of stays real busy because he's a really great drummer. He's been out with Reba, plays with everybody. So trying to get him in town was the hard part. So this was booked way, way far in advance. And so about six months ago, I kept bribing him if he would come back and play just tonight. And so we're happy to have Steve Short here. Drums. So on clarinet, since Pete Fountain was busy and...
Bob Snyder's in Florida. He sends his regards, by the way, but he couldn't be here either. So I got someone that plays better than both of them. His name is Floyd Haynes, and right here in Oklahoma City. And then there's this fiddle player. Why do you have a fiddle player with a Dixieland group? But he and I started playing together at the Grand National Quail Hunt a long time ago, about 15 years ago. I think you started playing. I started about 20 years ago playing with Roy Clark and some other people up there. And they go up there and you hunt and they're really nice to you, but then they want you to play for your dinner. So you actually have to get up and perform. And so all of us would get up and we'd play. And so it was great. And you get to know some great players. Well, I mean, Byron has recorded with the Rolling Stones, believe it or not, back when I was first born.
Actually, I'm not making that part up. It's true. It's right around 1967 when you recorded with... 69. Okay, so I was 7. So, yeah. Can you feel old or anything? Yeah, I know. Okay. But he's literally played with everybody around the world, and I'm just so honored to have him here with me tonight. So, Mr. Byron Berline. And then we have this weird guy back here that I went to school with at North Texas.
Him, I produced music at North Texas when I was young. I was already writing jingles for companies and stuff. And so my roommate was Frank Green, who was the lead player for the David Letterman show when he finished the last four or five years with David Letterman. Well, Steve has played with everyone from Docs Everson to Maynard Ferguson, you know, tons of people all over the world. Great player, great jazz musician, does great arranging, Grammy winner. I mean, I can't say enough nice things. If you put good enough jazz players around you, I don't have to play well. And so that's exactly what I did. So all the way from Colorado, his plane got in in time to get here, is Steve Wiest.
And I guess you guys know who I am, so I'll go ahead and play. So we're going to end this first half with a thing called Hootie's Blues. It's a song I wrote, so thank you all for being here. You are listening to Music for Life. I'm your host, Ryan Malone. This is KPCG. On today's special episode, we are hearing a concert from Armstrong Auditorium, trumpeter David B. Hooten's Legends of Dixieland performance on January 16th, 2020. For time constraints, we're hearing the major highlights from it, and we just heard some of the first half.
For the second half, David leads the procession of his ensemble out onto the stage for a rendition of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot. After that, the group does Basin Street Blues. Then the Oklahoma City-based clarinetist Floyd Haynes is featured on Ain't Misbehavin'. After that, the group performs Onward Christian Soldiers, which features Steve Short on drums a fair bit. After that is the famous Louis Armstrong hit What a Wonderful World, then St. James Infirmary, then a recreation of a New Orleans funeral procession. For that, we'll hear them perform When the Saints Go Marching In, where the more mobile instruments of the group go out into the audience. And I'll try to boost the mics in the theater so you can get a sense of that. And then they're back on stage by the key change.
And that's where we'll end the rebroadcast of this delightful event. That's a little Basin Street Blues. So next we're going to feature this wonderful clarinet player who's just been tearing it up all night. Floyd, you sound great, man. So this one's all you. Great job. Great job. Floyd Haynes. Next we're going to do a song that was made famous by a trumpet player, but he never played trumpet on the recording. And so it's a beautiful tune. And I'm not going to sing it. I'm going to play it. But I think you'll recognize it.
You have been listening to Music for Life, a production of KPCG 101.3 on the FM dial in Edmond, Oklahoma. From the Herbert W. Armstrong College campus, I'm Ryan Malone. Thanks for joining me.