00:38 Allison Miner welcomes audience. 01:17 Professor Longhair performing “Tipitina,” recorded by Jerry Wexler and Ahmet Ertegun played. 04:07 Miner introduces interviewer Grant Morris. 04:29 Morris introduces the participants. 06:18 Morris gives an overview of Professor Longhair’s influence by reading press releases. 08:46 Demonstration: Allen Toussaint talks about Professor Longhair’s musical inventions and plays the Professor Longhair song “Bald Head” in ways which illustrate his points, singing in Fess style. 12:47 Dr. John & Toussaint explain what was unique in Professor’s Longhair’s piano approach and techniques, and why his work challenged the preconceptions of some. 14:10 A story by Alexander Byrd regarding Fess at The Blue Eagle on N. Rampart in 1950s. 15:07 Dr. John talks about the first time he met Fess, his earliest experiences with him, his influence. 18:13 Miner relates a Wardell Quezergue story about his producing a Fess recording. 19:28 Demonstration: Dr. John plays and sings, “Her Mind is Gone”. 22:10 Demonstration: Dr. John introduces and plays, “Tipitina”. 25:57 Toussaint gives props to Dr. John, talks of his own first experiences hearing Fess’s music, how his music was an embodiment of the New Orleans essence. 29:14 Remembrances of Fess’s personality by son Alexander Byrd. 31:15 Miner on Fess’s career, Allen & Alexander on Fess’s growing popularity. 36:32 Pat Byrd on her father’s spirituality. Byrd on current status of Fess’s publishing. 40:00 Miner on her friendship with and management of Professor Longhair, on his 1970s years. 43:10 Grant Morris introduces Quint Davis. Miner tells anecdote of Fess’s first Jazz Fest performance. 44:44 Quint Davis talks about searching for Professor Longhair in 1970-71 to try and get him to come out of retirement & play at the first Jazz Fest. George Wein, One Stop Record Shop, drummer Edward Kimbrough, Jr. mentioned. 49:23 Davis relates what Fess told him about his learning rhythms, eventually tap dancing as a youngster. How he transitioned to piano, why he kicked piano. 51:09 Davis talks about his own touring with Fess during the 1970s. 53:57 Davis talks about Professor Longhair playing at the 1st New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, mentions Snooks Eaglin, Armstrong Park, the festival set-up that first time. 55:49 Davis talks briefly about Toussaint playing on the riverboat at Davis’s request. 57:19 Toussaint talks to audience about Fess, new Professor Longhair CD, Crescent City Gold performance (Red Tyler, Lee Allen, Earl Palmer), about Stephenson Palfi’s film, “Piano Players Rarely Ever Play Together” (with Allen Toussaint, Tuts Washington, Professor Longhair). 58:52 Demonstration: Toussaint plays “Mardi Gras in New Orleans” in Fess’s, then in his own style, segues into a composition of his own thanking God for giving the world Professor Longhair, finally segueing into “Tipitina,” playing and singing in the style of Professor Longhair (with a tag and a false ending).
