Allow me to toot this brilliant man's horn today. Alan is still squirming with the grooviest, hippest intentions to melt your boots off. He has uploaded this wonderful video below to youtube: Alan Haven - What's Going On ( be sure to subscribe to Alanhaven and encourage some more great posts of his playing).
Spoke to Alan last week and he reminded me of this show. I have some rough camcorder footage of Alan playing a JVC during the early 80's. On VHS if I can just get it converted. Still the best UK jazz organist, even now.
I played a support slot for Alan at a JVC showcase event in Bournemouth when I was just 15. Would have been around 1982. Such an amazing player and without doubt a huge influence on me.
@@a440dc yes I worked at Eddie's around that time and had lessons over the road at the yamaha electone music school, which led to me playing at the showcase 👍
@billmcljnr - I remember Alan doing alternate sets with Peter Leigh's big band at the palais with the occasional teddy boy's rumble going on in the crowd. Thinking back to the 50's, the dance halls were only source of live jazz & swing around in the NW apart from the jazz at club "43" on oxford rd M/cr. Nice vid thanks for posting
Iremember reguarly seeing Alan playing his range of Haven organs and Crumer keyboards. I bought a Haven 103 which I split and gigged for years. Alan a teriffic player and still have his record, The Alan Haven Organ Show. Anyone know if Alan is still playing here? Last Iheard he was living in Spain. Hope he's ok and still entertaining somewhere out there.Talent like that is just not around now.
What a perfect way to approach the organ. I bet you could match Alan's body motion in this clip to almost any of his songs and most watchers would think he was playing it. I fully dig his playing.
Darn! What a shame he's miming! (and WHY? He's a monster organist) The organ looks very much like a Lowrey TLOK (Holiday). You can tell it's a Lowrey by the unique key shape. I have one. It's a fabulous instrument. Alan produced his own range of organs, but I never had the privilege of playing one, or even seeing one. I saw Alan many years ago and he was amazing. His pedal technique is quite special to say the least. He's such a tasteful jazzer. I don't remember all that body movement though!
Awesome playing. Incredible really. But, LOL, he looks like his bench is too hot to sit still on. I suppose that's just the music and the beat moving him.
Chloe Haven Oh really, that is a shame. I was keyboardist with Eric Delaney in Blackpool and we performed an arrangement I wrote of IMAGES (by Alan). I called it NEW IMAGE and Alan came to watch us perform it for him at the Tangerine Club.
I used to know Alan. He used a knee switch made for him by Bill Dunn to change the Leslie speed. Bill made it from a garden gate hinge which Alan nudged against a relay switch. So no hands which is what may have fooled you. It fooled many! Very clever in those days!
Yes it's quite common on Yamaha organs to have Leslie foot switch but on on this video it's definitely mimed as being an organist it's easy to spot...check at 1.59 the upper manual still playing but he's not touching the keys.. !
I used to know Alan. He used a knee switch relay to change Leslie speeds. It was made by Bill Dunn from a gate hinge! So there was no visible Leslie switching.
Great playing. Hilarious dancing!
Yeah baby!....groovy!
Alan played many times at the Bull Hotel Bridport Dorset
Tx for sharing. The "Haven For Sale" album has 1-2-3, which is an absolute corker.
Sadly not long after the 50th anniversary of this broadcast, Alan Haven passed away on 7th January 2016
Its amazing how he didn't fall off the organ stool when playing..... he looked like he was getting an electric shock off the keys!
Allow me to toot this brilliant man's horn today. Alan is still squirming with the grooviest, hippest intentions to melt your boots off. He has uploaded this wonderful video below to youtube:
Alan Haven - What's Going On
( be sure to subscribe to Alanhaven and encourage some more great posts of his playing).
Spoke to Alan last week and he reminded me of this show.
I have some rough camcorder footage of Alan playing a JVC during the early 80's. On VHS if I can just get it converted.
Still the best UK jazz organist, even now.
I played a support slot for Alan at a JVC showcase event in Bournemouth when I was just 15. Would have been around 1982. Such an amazing player and without doubt a huge influence on me.
@@jonpease6925 If I remember correctly the JVC showcase was for Eddie Moors Music
@@a440dc yes I worked at Eddie's around that time and had lessons over the road at the yamaha electone music school, which led to me playing at the showcase 👍
@billmcljnr - I remember Alan doing alternate sets with Peter Leigh's big band at the palais with the occasional teddy boy's rumble going on in the crowd. Thinking back to the 50's, the dance halls were only source of live jazz & swing around in the NW apart from the jazz at club "43" on oxford rd M/cr.
Nice vid thanks for posting
Iremember reguarly seeing Alan playing his range of Haven organs and Crumer keyboards. I bought a Haven 103 which I split and gigged for years. Alan a teriffic player and still have his record, The Alan Haven Organ Show. Anyone know if Alan is still playing here? Last Iheard he was living in Spain. Hope he's ok and still entertaining somewhere out there.Talent like that is just not around now.
This is too groovy for words !
What a perfect way to approach the organ. I bet you could match Alan's body motion in this clip to almost any of his songs and most watchers would think he was playing it. I fully dig his playing.
Darn! What a shame he's miming! (and WHY? He's a monster organist)
The organ looks very much like a Lowrey TLOK (Holiday). You can tell it's a Lowrey by the unique key shape.
I have one. It's a fabulous instrument. Alan produced his own range of organs, but I never had the privilege of playing one, or even seeing one.
I saw Alan many years ago and he was amazing. His pedal technique is quite special to say the least. He's such a tasteful jazzer. I don't remember all that body movement though!
Most probably not his choice to mime, it's easy to pre record the audio instead of doing mic set ups and as it's live studio time is short...
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Not like most jazz organ players I think Alan Haven played a Lowry organ rather than the mighty Hammond and played the bass pedals with his shoes off.
yes I think I saw him demonstrating Lowry in Warwickshire in the 70s he had two percussion players with him
Just heard his work on the soundtrack for the 1964 comedy JOLLY BAD FELLOW. What a big, meaty Hammond sound!
Lowrey not Hammond
@@mihrantheupsetter I should have noticed the tabs rather than drawbars!
Don't suppose you have a copy of 'Live at Annie's Room' by any chance?
Hi Jon, I believe that I may have a copy on cassette although, if I can find it, I'm not sure if I can make a copy
@@a440dc thanks for trying! Played my vinyl to death when I was young. Him and Tony Crombie were outstanding in the genre
Awesome playing. Incredible really.
But, LOL, he looks like his bench is too hot to sit still on.
I suppose that's just the music and the beat moving him.
river dance?
Does he really play like that, dancing all over the place!!??
+monsterjazzlicks
Yes he does! ..I'm his daughter. Sadly he died this January.
Chloe Haven Oh really, that is a shame. I was keyboardist with Eric Delaney in Blackpool and we performed an arrangement I wrote of IMAGES (by Alan). I called it NEW IMAGE and Alan came to watch us perform it for him at the Tangerine Club.
Chloe Haven btw - Keith Emerson passed away yesterday!
monsterjazzlicks
Oh wow, interesting! ...I should've said he did..can't get used to using past tense!
Chloe Haven All the best. Paul David Seaman.
Obvioulsy prerecorded and mimed....the give away is the Leslie ramping up and down with no controling of it...
I used to know Alan. He used a knee switch made for him by Bill Dunn to change the Leslie speed. Bill made it from a garden gate hinge which Alan nudged against a relay switch. So no hands which is what may have fooled you. It fooled many! Very clever in those days!
Yes it's quite common on Yamaha organs to have Leslie foot switch but on on this video it's definitely mimed as being an organist it's easy to spot...check at 1.59 the upper manual still playing but he's not touching the keys.. !
I used to know Alan. He used a knee switch relay to change Leslie speeds. It was made by Bill Dunn from a gate hinge! So there was no visible Leslie switching.