Professor Longhair is my favorite piano player

good link. is that EMP interview archived anywhere?

Very sadly I think the EMP New Orleans folks did not tape anything but the Senegalese musicians playing on Sunday with the New Orleans Afro-Creole banjoists Don vappie and Carl Leblanc.

I see but have not listened to the audio link about Marquez finding 'Fess on that cartwheelart.com link above. I was scribbling down some notes while listening to Marquez talk and then I got so caught up in listening to his great stories about 'Fess making more money card-playing (but allegedly having a former home burned down in relation to such card-playing), the unidentified comatose looking woman in 'fess's apartment who was never explained to Marquez; Marquez' story of paying the musicians union $800 (he had only $1000 in his bank acct at the time) so Fess could play again and get to use a Union rehearsal space with a piano...

Wow, great stories. Would love to see that Fess/Snooks footage. Guessing the unknown drummer could have been Sheba Kimbrough, Fess played with him a lot around that time. Or is it a bigger mystery?

Not sure. When Marquez told interviewer Berry he didn't remember, Berry just moved on to another question.

I loved how Marquez said something like "After 'Fess start playing the piano beautifully after I gave the union $800 for dues, I thought man, I'd pay $800 anyday to hear a guy like that perform again."

Marquez had loaned Quint Davis his Fess 78s to listen to and Davis was initially unimpressed according to Marquez; until concert promoter George Wein (who worked with Davis in creating Jazzfest) expressed interest

I freaking love the way Fess SINGS.....

i have a special place on my heart for rock n' roll gumbo as that was my introduction to the professor while back in college, played that to death and remember the first time it hit me
even tho i have way more albums by him keep going back to that for the memories

but gawd that man cld play

http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/spirit-of-professor-longhair-alive-at-new-orleans-jazz-and-heritage-festival/2014/04/17/fa5da3e8-be6d-11e3-bcec-b71ee10e9bc3_story.html

Re fixing up his house, a movie doc, and a movie feature

just got back from new orleans, and i really regret not going to see his house. though i did randomly walk by Allen Toussaint's house.

Coincidentally, I just stumbled across this yesterday, don't know if it's been mentioned/linked elsewhere:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX1vwDe9Z94

That W. Post feature quotes Quint Davis re finding 'Fess, but leaves out Hudson Marquez.