Crystal Nights
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Night Blue
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All in Blue Time
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Impressions of Christmas
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RECENT GIGS
Still crooning after all these years.
At the Southpoint Casino in Las Vegas
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Playing a Yamaha Y62 tenor saxophone |
Blue Sax
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Opry Backstage |
With Irish singer Daniel O'Donnell
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With Crystal Gayle on PBS |
I'm the Coal Miner's daughter's sister's saxophone player
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With songwriters Don Henry, Mike Loudermilk and Roger Cook at the Bluebird |
With saxophonist Jeff Coffin and trombonist Roy Agee
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Backstage with Larry Gatlin |
At the Opry
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Singing a duet on the Grand Ole Opry with Crystal Gayle |
Crystal Gayle & Jay Patten
"There's a Rainbow"
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Denis Solee burning the house down on
"Straight, No Chaser" |
Yanagasawa soprano saxophone and an old Gibson mandolin on
"Ready For The Times To Get Better"
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On the Bluebird Cafe stage for the 30th Anniversary Show with Crystal Gayle
(Ric Lonow/drums) |
The first guy to ever play the Bluebird Cafe hosting the 33rd Bluebird Anniversery Show
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Webb Wilder singing with the Jay Patten Band at the Bluebird Cafe Birthday Show |
Opening the show at the Dosey Doe
in The Woodlands, TX
(Duane Norman/drums, Rob Price/bass)
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On stage with Peggy Sue Wright and Crystal Gayle after singing "There's a Rainbow" |
Jammin' "The Jim/Jay Blues"
Jay and Jimmy Hall
with Rick Lonow on drums in the key of G minor
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With John Prine after the Bluebird Christmas Show 2018 |
"Memories Are Made of This"
Crystal Gayle and me in a swinging duet |
With Kirk Whalum at Smooth Jazz Festival,
Clearwater, FL |
Ran across
my friend Gallagher in the airport |
Playing to the valley in Sedona, AZ
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Jamming onstage with my friend Lee Greenwood |
Bluebird 25th Anniversary Show
(TOP: Mike Loudermilk, Roberto Bianco, Frank Sheen,
T. Graham Brown, Rick Lonow;
FRONT: Toni Sehulster, me, Jonell Mosser,
Jimmy Hall, Hal Ketchum) |
Bluebird 25th Anniversary Show
With Amy Kurland and my band
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Bluebird 25th Anniversary Show
with Irish star Maura O'Connell
and the amazing Jonell Mosser
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Backstage at Clearwater Smooth Jazz Festival
with David Pack (Ambrosia)
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On soprano with Mike Loudermilk
rocking on guitar
(photo by Lorri Straight) |
With Jeff Steinberg and the great Buddy DeFranco |
He likes bread 'n butter--songwriter Larry Henley
("Wind Beneath My Wings"), lead singer with
The New Beats
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Recent picture of Jeff Steinberg and me |
On a vortex mountain peak
with drummer Rick Lonow and lighting director extraordinaire Don Kellams
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Michael
Feinstein, Crystal Gayle, and me backstage |
Crooning at Feinstein's, NYC |
Magic
night fronting my own big band at the Belcourt Theatre, Nashville,
TN |
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Cole
Burgess on lead alto takes a ride |
Rockin'
at Brown's Diner, Nashville |
Mike Loudermilk on guitar,
Toni Sehulster on bass |
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Bluebird
Cafe Anniversary Show, Nashville |
Quando
Condo at the Bluebird Cafe party
(l to r): me, Roberto Bianco, Rick Lonow, Vicki Carrico, Michael
Johnson, Frank Sheen |
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JAY'S ROADCASE OF MEMORIES
With my therapist
(she looks a lot like Crystal Gayle...) |
Glenn Miller Band Bus
Larry Fisher, Larry Bell, Bob Dogan, me |
The New Swing Combo
Chris Enghauser on bass |
Jay Patten Band (L to R):
Toni Sehulster, Ralph Vitello, Jay,
Larry Chaney, Tommy Wells
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Drummer Jim
White and me
Crystal Gayle Band |
A promo picture somewhere along the way
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I
need to cut my hair, put on a hat,
pick up my alto and play the blues. |
What
What's wrong with this horn?
I think I'll switch to Yamaha... |
The Glenn Miller Band in London
L to R: Richie Barz, me, Loretta St. John |
My friends the Everly Brothers
L to R: Don Everly, Phil Everly, me
Jerry McEwen in foreground
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Crystal
Gayle Band in Europe
L to R: Me, Jim Totoian, Larry Schwartz,
Alan Steinberger,Bob Patin,
Tony Newman, Chris Leuzinger, Steve Garrard |
Arranger
Jeff Steinberg & me,
Berklee College of Music |
Northern
Ireland |
The
Mad Dogs
(L to R): Mike Foley, Bob Biles (Roberto Bianco),
Jay, Clark Furlow, Steve Uzzle
Notice the dog collars!
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I was still searching for a stage name
(check out the shoes!) |
Taking a solo!
Jim Ferguson on bass
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Posing
for a TV promo for a kid's show pilot,
Cypress Gardens, Florida |
I WAS 15, and we played in an Acme Market in Asbury Park, NJ; my
dad, Carmine Pellecchia, ran the store (Danny Kokora on accordian and Steve Kay on drums)
We were set up between the fruits and vegetables. |
With the Glenn Miller Band in Japan
(that's me in the black tux) |
Belfast, Northern Ireland
L to R: Tony Newman, me, Steve "Gyro" Garrard |
Guy
Clark & me at Mississippi Whiskers |
Rehearsing
the Atlanta Symphony, Crystal Gayle Show |
My band at the Bluebird Cafe
L to R: Larry Chaney, Jerry McEwen, unknown drummer, me, Alan
Steinberger |
Singing "Black Hat & Saxophone"
on The Nashville Network |
Buddy DeFranco, the world's greatest
jazz clarinetist, is trying my alto sax
(that's me in foreground left) |
The making of the "Black Hat" video
featured on VH-1 |
With pianist Bob Patin in London
...Waiting for the subway |
Bassist Duncan Mullins, me, guitarist Chris Leuzinger
Crystal Gayle Band |
My
friend Tony Newman at the drums,
Crystal Gayle Band |
Mugging it up in Las Vegas
Jim Totoian (facing backwards), me,
my friend & saxophone hero Richie Cole |
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