While Fletcher Allen is a name most known as a health care provider, there is also a jazz saxophonist and arranger with this name who really seemed to get around; his career including lengthy performing stints in India and Egypt as well as the extended European sojourns that are "de rigeur," "naturalisch," or "bellisimo" for the jazzman who inevitably find the American scene to be a bit taxing. Or perhaps "non-taxing" would be a better description, as in very little income to tax. At one point when Allen returned to the United States from his travels and acclaimed performing ventures, he wound up working on the docks in New York City because there were no gigs.