Woody Allen the Preservation Hall Jazz Band on the soundtrack of "Sleeper". Woody Allen and his New Orleans Jazz Band have been playing each Monday evening at the Carlyle Hotel in Manhattan for many years specializing in New Orleans jazz from the early twentieth century. He plays songs by Sidney Bechet, George Lewis, Johnny Dodds, Jimmie Noone and Louis Armstrong. The documentary film "Wild Man Blues" (directed by Barbara Kopple) documents a 1996 European tour by Allen and his band, as well as his relationship with Previn. The band has released two CDs: "The Bunk Project" (1993) and the soundtrack of "Wild
Woody Allen short interview of Allen by French director Jean-Luc Godard. In 2011 the PBS series American Masters co-produced the documentary "Woody Allen: a Documentary", directed by Robert B. Weide. Eric Lax authored the book "Woody Allen: A Biography". From 1976 to 1984, Stuart Hample wrote and drew "Inside Woody Allen", a comic strip based on Allen's film persona. Woody Allen Heywood "Woody" Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; December 1, 1935) is an American director, writer, actor, and comedian whose career spans more than six decades. He began his career as a comedy writer in the 1950s, writing jokes and scripts for