This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring Bob James, Scott McLemore, and Steve Kahn. For more about the show visit the Something Blue website at sbblues.com.

This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring Sunna Gunnlaugs, AxMei, Regis V. Gronoff, and Kai Engel. For more about the show visit the Something Blue website at sbblues.com.

Don’t miss Something Blue, Saturday night at 10:00 PM CST, at kasu.org.

AxMei – Piano Su. 01
www.jamendo.com/album/464494/piano-su-01

Kai Engel – Irsen’s Tale
archive.org/details/SCL081

Regis V. Gronoff – Brazil Blues
www.jamendo.com/album/186376/brazil-blues

Sunna Gunnlaugs – Songs From Iceland
sunnagunnlaugs.bandcamp.com/

This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring Giant Steps, Trish Clowes, and Cedar Walton. For more about the show visit the Something Blue website at sbblues.com.

Don’t miss Something Blue, Saturday night at 10:00 PM CST, at kasu.org.

Trish Clowes & Ross Stanley – Journey to Where
trishclowes.bandcamp.com/album/journey-to-where

Cedar Walton – First Set
www.arts.gov/honors/jazz/cedar-walton

Giant Steps – Jazz Thursday 2013-05-23
archive.org/details/gs2013-05-23

DJ Hairy Larry Presents Lisa Ahia Singing My Romance
From The Archives Of Something Blue 2023-09-03

Thanks Marty, today we're going to hear a female vocalist accompanied by a female pianist recorded in 2011 at Bebopalooza!

This Saturday I have a great show featuring top jazz pianists and female vocalists. So I got to thinking about what I have in the archives of Something Blue that will complement the show. And I came up with Lisa Ahia. I love the way she sings the song "My Romance" and I do have several recordings of it. But when I heard the version recorded right here at ASU, on October 15, 2011, I knew I had found what I was looking for. With Joy Sanford accompanying Lisa on piano the resulting recording is very sparse and perfectly rendered. A great song to go with a great show.

This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring Taper’s Choice and Circles Around The Sun. For more about the show visit the Something Blue website at sbblues.com.
Don’t miss Something Blue, Saturday night at 10:00 PM CST, at kasu.org.

Taper’s Choice Live at Spoke Bicycle Cafe on 2023-08-05
archive.org/details/tc2023-08-05.sbd.akg414.logrippo.flac24

Circles Around The Sun Live at Bowery Ballroom on 2021-08-27
archive.org/details/cats2021-08-27.schoeps_mk4v_flac24

Jess Stacy was a ready dance pianist in his teens at Cape Girardeau, Mo. “Jess was always a serious and fundamentally sound musician,” attested R.F. "Peg" Meyer, bandleader. “His great interest in life was always the piano, and he pursued it in a quiet and hard-working manner. He was born with a natural talent and fingers that could span thirteen piano keys (five notes over an octave) and developed a determination that he would not just play the piano, he would excel at it. After school when the rest of us would play pool or seek other amusement, he would hurry home, climb on the piano stool, and practice arpeggios by the hour.”

Stacy’s fingers on piano were “trained down to steel… bringing out both ends of an octave at once through any din,” reviewed Otis Ferguson in 1937. The jazz critic heard Stacy’s piano “as both an orchestra in miniature and a linking force among its separate parts, tying the chorded beat of the rhythm section into the melodic line, providing a sort of common base as between brass and reeds, filling out the chords of each.”

This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring Cosmic Lunchbox, Wadada Leo Smith, and Sun Ra. For more about the show visit the Something Blue website at sbblues.com.

Don’t miss Something Blue, Saturday night at 10:00 PM CST, at kasu.org.

Cosmic Lunchbox – Still Time
darinwilson.bandcamp.com/album/still-time

Sun Ra & Arkestra – Hendersonia: Sun Ra Performs Fletcher Henderson
sunramusic.bandcamp.com/album/hendersonia-sun-ra-performs-fletcher-henderson

Wadada Leo Smith and Orange Wave Electric – Fire Illuminations
wadadaleosmith1.bandcamp.com/album/fire-illuminations

Darin Wilson – Meanderings
darinwilson.bandcamp.com/album/meanderings

Bebop Beatniks
On The Twitch Porch
April 2, 2023

Songs

00:00 Stardust by Hoagy Carmichael, public domain
08:27 African Violet
17:05 Sail Boats
24:26 Malaysia
33:37 Low Earth Orbit
42:37 The Blue Crane

All songs except "Stardust" by Larry Heyl
"Stardust" arr. by Larry Heyl

Personnel

Hairy Larry - piano and vocals
Alex Washam - drums

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Video for this show is at https://archive.org/details/hl2023-04-02.video

Bebop Beatniks
Blues Fest
October 9, 2022
Craighead Forest Bandshell
Jonesboro, Arkansas

Songs

00:00 African Violet
09:09 Recuperation ...
09:28 The Blue Crane
16:50 I am a composition major ...
17:33 Low Earth Orbit
26:00 Jeremy Jackson, bass - Alex Washam, drums ...
26:41 Sail Boats
33:24 Drinking water ...
34:01 Malaysia
41:18 Thanks ...

Personnel

Hairy Larry - piano and vocals
Jeremy Jackson - bass
Alex Washam - drums

Guest Beatnik

Carl Heyl - vocals on African Violet
Lyrics from "The Rat And The Elephant" by Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695)

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Hairy Larry
Live at Beatles Park
Walnut Ridge, Arkansas
March 5, 2023

00:00 It's great to be back at Beatles Park ...
00:15 African Violet by Larry Heyl
07:20 Ok, here's a blues ...
07:28 The Blue Crane by Larry Heyl
16:26 I want to thank our good friends ...
16:48 Malaysia by Larry Heyl
27:29 I got one more for you today ...
27:44 Stardust by Hoagy Carmichael public domain