Pleasing Clients in the Music Business
Bruce Flett Productions
Office: (318) 221-0850
Bruce cel: (318) 773-3034
email: blucebird@aol.com
All Blues
Angel Eyes
Anthropology
Autumn Is
Autumn Leaves
Big Easy Shuffle
Black Orpheus
Blue Monday
Blue Bossa
Blue Ronda ala Turk
Birth of The Blues
Blue Smoke & Borrowed Cigarettes
Bourbon Street Blues
Bye Bye Blackbird
Crawl, Crawl, Crawl
Cry Me a River
Do You Know What It Means
Donna Lee
Don’t Know Why
Don’t Get Around Much Anymore
Fever
Fiyo On The Bayou
Footprints
Girl From Ipanema
Green Dolphin Street
Harlem Nocturn
Hey Pocy Way
Hi Lilly Hi Lo
How Sweet It Would Be
If I Only Had A Brain
In A Sentimental Mood
Just a Gigolo-l Ain't Got Nobody
Killer Joe
Let's Go Get Stoned
Live The Life 1 Love
Lullaby ofBirdland
Meditation
Magic of Love
Meditation
Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
Monkey Island
Moondance
My Favorite Things
Nature Boy
Nawlins, New Orleans
Nothin' s Gonna Be Alright
Naked Man's Not Safe In West Hollywood
Night Train
Night and Day
Ornithology
Over The Rainbow
Perry Mason Theme
Play Somethin' Sweet
Red Clay
Route 66
San Francisco
St. Thomas
Shady Side of the Street
Sitting In limbo
Some Day My Prince Will Come
Star Dust
Star Eyes
Summertime
Take Five
Tell It Like It Is
True Love
Watch What Happens
What's Goin' On
Wave
and plenty more where those came from..
Steve was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, and started performing in front of audiences while still in elementary school. He subsequently lived in Memphis, toured the states with a show band from Jackson, Mississippi, relocated to Los Angeles and worked in various fairly big time show biz situations. He moved with his family to New Orleans in 1998, and lived there till Katrina forced him full circle back to Shreveport
In L. A. Steve honed his skills and worked in a great variety of situations in the fertile music scene collectively known as Hollywood. Dozens of original bands, vying for a shot at the big time, had Steve as their sax man. There was jingle work for him, recording national level TV spots in the truly elegant studios of L. A. Los Angeles was great fun and very eye opening for Steve, working with and rubbing elbows with big name entertainers.
During this same period, Steve landed a touring position in Rita Coolidge’s band. He toured worldwide with her for 11 years of great traveling and performing, including Europe, Australia, Japan, Indochina, Hong Kong, and any and everywhere in the US. He also became a songwriter and composer while living in L.A.
Steve worked on Bourbon Street till the wee hours the first few years in New Orleans, still writing songs and stories, and thriving. Steve had produced several projects of his own in his studio there. He received a mini grant from the State of Louisiana Division of the Arts to apply to the completion of his album ‘Bourbon Street Blues’, and he also was in the final stages of finishing an all-instrumental album called ‘Pure Music’.
Steve has been hustling music work with a vengeance since being displaced to Shreveport, the place of his childhood. He has started the Steveport Jazz Combo with partner Dr. Doug Rust, working as a 2, 3, or 4 piece group in restaurants and private events in the area. He has appeared at all the top venues in town, including Ernest’s Orleans, Cambria Bistro, The Sea Grille, Harrahs, Shreveport Country Club, University Club and others. Shreveport has proven to be a welcoming host to Steve Allen and his efforts. He knows what it means to miss New Orleans, but has been very grateful to have found a safe haven in Northern Louisiana.
And now, as of the end of July, 2007, he and his family have restored their home in New Orelans and are now again living most of the time there, with the Shreveport area as a second home, yet with no intention of giving up their port-in-a-storm in the 'high elevations' of northern Louisiana.