This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring J. D. Allen, Masao Nakajima, Eji Oyewole, and Koichi Matsukaze. 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.

J.D. Allen – Pharoah’s Children
www.crisscrossjazz.com/album/1221.html

Masao Nakajima Quartet, Kemo Sabe
bbemusic.bandcamp.com/album/kemo-sabe

Eji Oyewole – Charity Begins At Home
bbemusic.bandcamp.com/album/charity-begins-at-home-edits

Koichi Matsukaze Trio feat Ryojiro Furusawa – At the Room 427
bbemusic.bandcamp.com/album/at-the-room-427

DJ Hairy Larry Presents Hairy Larry playing "Chunga"
From The Archives Of Something Blue January 29, 2023

Thanks Marty, today we're going to hear an original post bop jazz piece recorded at Harriet O'Neal's piano studio.

Regular listeners know that I'm a composition major at ASU. There's more to being a composition major than putting notes on a page. You are also expected to arrange readings of your pieces, make recordings, and perform recitals.

I wrote a piece called "Chunga", a prequel to Frank Zappa's "Chunga's Revenge". Harriet O'Neal was my piano teacher and she agreed to help play a reading and make a recording of the piece. Harriet was raised in Wynne, Arkansas, and she taught at ASU.

I pulled some top area musicians to fill out the rhythm section. On bass I had David Eckert, librarian at the Jonesboro Public Library who gave lessons at ASU and on drums, John Long, band director at Walnut Ridge.

For the saxophone parts I had two excellent musicians who I had played with in the jazz program at ASU, Aaron Decker - alto, and Cody Ballard - tenor. The bari player I had scheduled was out of town so I played the bari parts on my synthesizer.

This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring Doctor Deathray, Mosey Beat, and Zero. 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.

Mosey Beat Live at Funhouse Southside on 2023-01-15
archive.org/details/mb2023-01-15

Zero Live at Roseland Theater on 1993-03-07
archive.org/details/zero1993-03-07.stage.mtx-km254-c61-vox-sax.chief.mcgee.miller.sirmick.163303.flac1648

Doctor Deathray – These are all off my upcoming album, 51 Miles From Nowhere.
doctordeathray.bandcamp.com

MixRemix On Anonradio - From The Creative Commons Jazz Library - 2023-01-27
jazz.mixremix.cc

23:55
Gustavo Crochenci-Vintage
https://www.jamendo.com/album/148140/vintage
CC BY-NC-ND

42:47
20 - Boom Boom Beckett
https://www.jamendo.com/album/166470/20
CC BY-NC

30:09
Blancheneige Bazaar Orchestra-Royale Aero d'Inde
https://www.jamendo.com/album/18357/royale-aero-d-inde
CC BY-NC-SA

44:02
Alexey Baranov-Sunny Day Again
https://www.jamendo.com/album/164580/sunny-day-again-background-music-vol-1
CC By-NC-ND

56:27
Dead Horse by Charts and Maps
https://lostchildren.bandcamp.com/album/dead-horse
CC BY-NC-ND

55:01
Smoked Mood Volume 2 by SmokedBeat
https://smokedbeat.bandcamp.com/album/smoked-mood-volume-2
CC BY-NC-ND

DJ Hairy Larry Presents Jay Shepherd Playing Freddie The Freeloader
From The Archives Of Something Blue January 22, 2023

Thanks Marty, today we’re going to hear a Miles Davis blues performed at A-State Delta Jazz Workshop.

Jay Shepherd and Shugga Shane were regulars at Blues Fest so I already knew Jay when we were taking Jazz Improv together at ASU. He also played with Bebop Beatniks quite a bit and he is a featured soloist on our new live album, “Church”.

On July 12, 2016, I recorded Jay’s band at the Delta Jazz Workshop evening concert held in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. They played a great set of jazz standards ranging from swing to fusion and they closed with “Freddie Freeloader”, a song from the Mile’s Davis album, “Kind Of Blue”.

Playing on the song we will hear Jay Shepherd on guitar; Shane Chastain, piano; Terrell Montgomery, bass, and Keyven Dunn, drums, all fine outstanding Northeast Arkansas musicians.

Joe Lee and I recorded “Boppin’ At The Forest” in the studio, that is, in the front room of his home while I recorded in his office surrounded by Alley memorabilia. Except for one track.

“If I Had You” was recorded by Joe Lee and Friends at the Jonesboro Public Library. It was in the spring of 2001 and in between the sessions Joe booked a gig. At the gig Joe featured Dru Davison playing a bari feature. So the personnel on this song was just Dru and the rhythm section, Joy Sanford – Piano, Tom Mason – Bass, and Mike Overall – Drums. I don’t know if you’ve ever done live recording but a lot my job as audio engineer was holding my mouth right when I heard something exceptional hoping for a good recording all the way to the end of the song.

After Joe and I listened to the recordings Joe decided to add this Dru Davison feature to his “Boppin’ At The Forest” CD. Which is why, when you are recording a band, you always want to keep the tape rolling.

MixRemix On Anonradio - From The Creative Commons Jazz Library - 2023-01-13
jazz.mixremix.cc

15:28
Regis V Gronoff-Just Some Stuff
https://www.jamendo.com/album/30059/just-some-stuff
CC BY-NC-SA

46:51
Vélos - Boom Boom Beckett
https://www.jamendo.com/album/4234/velos
CC BY-NC

18:12
Serge Quadrado-Autumn Seashore
https://www.jamendo.com/album/473744/autumn-seashore
CC BY-NC-ND

54:41
NJHB-Bella's Blues
https://archive.org/details/bellas_blues
See license.txt

32:54
Tom La Meche-Blog
https://www.jamendo.com/album/1741/blog
CC BY-NC-SA

54:33
NJHB-Circular Logic
https://archive.org/details/hl2012-12-29
CC BY

This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring Jazz Writers Big Band, Makaya McCraven, and Matthew Halsall. 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.

Makaya McCraven – In These Times
intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/in-these-times

Jazz Writers Big Band – Jazz Writers Big Band
archive.org/details/hll-1054-Jazz_Writers_Big_Band

Matthew Halsall – When The World Was One
matthewhalsall.bandcamp.com/album/when-the-world-was-one

From The Archives Of Something Blue October 16, 2022

1. DJ Hairy Larry presents Bebop Beatniks
2. Something Blue – Turn – 29 second spot

Thanks Marty, today we’re going to hear some Creative Commons Jazz played on the Twitch Porch.

Happy Birthday Creative Commons. Creative Commons licenses are 20! At creativecommons.org they say “Honoring 20 years of open sharing using CC licenses, join us in 2022 to celebrate Better Sharing — advancing universal access to knowledge and culture, and fostering creativity, innovation, and collaboration.”

It seems like only yesterday but I have been using Creative Commons licenses for 20 years.

Thanks Marty, this week I’ve got a special performance of a great song that is From The Archives of Something Blue.

In 2019 KASU sponsored New Jazz In Jonesboro held in the Round Room of the Jonesboro Public Library. On February 9, 2019 we featured the Ken Carroll Quintet, Ken Carroll on EWI; Hairy Larry, piano; Gabe Waters, bass; Chris Isom, drums; and Joseph Curtis, trumpet. Ken Carroll is Director Of Jazz Studies at ASU. Joseph Curtis is the band director at Hoxie High School. The rest of us are jazz students at ASU. We love the Bossa Nova standard, “Recordame”, and that love for this music shines through in this performance. Now, here’s the Ken Carroll Quintet playing “Recordame”.