This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring Fred Hersch, Ahmad Jamal, and NJHB. 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.

Fred Hersch and Julian Lage – Free Flying
fredhersch.com/discography

Ahmad Jamal – Blue Moon
ahmadjamal.com/

NJHB – Blue Goose
archive.org/details/Njhb-BlueGoose

This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring Greyboy Allstars, Moore’s Code, and Fruition. 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.

Greyboy Allstars Live at Soundcheck Studios on 2022-04-05
archive.org/details/gba2022-04-05/

Fruition Live at Ardmore Music Hall on 2022-04-07
archive.org/details/fru2022-04-07.AKGCK63.Flac24/

Moore’s Code Live at Jazz Thursday May 15, 2014
njhb.bandcamp.com/album/from-dawn-til-dusk

DJ Hairy Larry presents Moore’s Code playing “Give Me The Night”.

01. DJ Hairy Larry Presents Moore’s Code
02. Something Blue – 29 – Happy second spot

Thanks Marty, today we’re hearing a George Benson song recorded at KASU Jazz Thursday right here in Jonesboro.

From The Archives Of Something Blue April 3, 2022

DJ Hairy Larry presents Getty Moss playing “I Ain’t Got You”.

01. DJ Hairy Larry Presents Gerry Moss
02. Something Blue – Empire – 29 second spot

Thanks Marty, today we’re going to hear the real blues recorded for Something Blue in Newport, Arkansas.

It was August 20, 2019, and it was hot and threatening rain. They had moved the Monster Grooves concert formerly known as Bluesday Tuesday indoors and we were glad. Because it was hot as August in Arkansas.

Mike Doyle and I had traveled south to see Gerry Moss, a storied bluesman. Moss was joined by Jerry Bone, bass and Danny Dozier, guitar presenting an all star lineup. All Arkansas musicians they did not disappoint. In fact they cooked all the way through their show.

DJ Hairy Larry presents Hairy Larry and The Flying Hungarians playing “Blues For Peace”.

1. DJ Hairy Larry Presents Hairy Larry and The Flying Hungarians
2. Something Blue – Guess – 29 second spot

Thanks Marty, today we’re going to play one of my original songs recorded by my family band, Hairy Larry and the Flying Hungarians.

Thanks Marty, today we’ll hear one of my original compositions played at The Round Room in the Jonesboro Public Library.

New Jazz In Jonesboro had a successful season at The Arts@311 in 2013. Then in 2018 I restarted the program at The Round Room and thanks to Mark Smith we got KASU on board helping with publicity.

On November 10, 2018, NJHB, the New Jazz House Band, played four of my original compositions, three of them being played for the first time in public. Because that’s how NJHB rolls. We just put a brand new chart up on the music stands and then we improvise the whole arrangement, not just the solos.

The last piece of the evening was “Artificial Gravity” and playing on the song in solo order are Cody Ballard – tenor, Jon Vickers – alto, Gabe Waters – bass clarinet, Tyler Remagen – tenor, Hairy Larry – piano, Spencer Rawlins – bass, and Alex Washam – drums, all ASU Jazz Students and alumni.

From The Archives Of Something Blue March 13, 2022

DJ Hairy Larry presents Joy Sanford playing “Jordu”.

1. DJ Hairy Larry Presents Joy Sanford
2. Something Blue – Mystique – 29 second spot

Thanks Marty, this week we’re hearing a jazz standard played by our favorite pianist that I recorded at KASU Jazz Thursday.

I can’t count the number of times Joy Sanford has helped KASU playing piano at live music events. She played in The Little Big Band, The Adhoc Combo, with Gary Gazaway and Lisa Ahia, and Jazz Alliance. She accompanied Delta Vox at Bebopalooza and she helped frequently with our Jazz Thursday concerts. She also played at the Delta Jazz Workshop which I recorded for Something Blue.

When I was booking Jazz Thursday I thought, “Joy plays for us all the time. We should do a show to feature her.” So on February 24, 2011, our featured act was Joy Sanford.

From The Archives Of Something Blue March 6, 2022

DJ Hairy Larry presents Striding The Blast playing “Just Another Reggae Love Song”.

1. DJ Hairy Larry Presents Striding The Blast
2. Something Blue – Soffa – 29 second spot

Thanks Marty, today we’re going to hear a reggae song recorded at the Craighead Forest Bandshell.

As we have been hearing on From The Archives Of Something Blue I tried to record every act playing at the bandshell. In 2014 I added video recording taping one or two original songs with a single hand held camera for several acts. This ended up working out well even though it was a little tricky during the filming because there was no B roll to cover up mistakes.

On May 18, 2014, I made a video of Striding The Blast playing James Carvell’s composition, “Just Another Reggae Love Song”. Playing on the piece are James Carvell – guitar and vocals, Joey Hankins – vocals, and Jason Davis – percussion.

From The Archives Of Something Blue February 27, 2022

DJ Hairy Larry presents Gary Gazaway playing “The Phoenicians”.

1. DJ Hairy Larry Presents Gary Gazaway
2. Something Blue – Freedom – 29 second spot

Thanks Marty, This week we’re hearing El Bujo recorded live at Jazz Thursday.

Gary Gazaway brought The El Bujo Project to KASU Jazz Thursday held in TheArts@311 on June 27, 2013, and it’s one of the best Jazz Thursday shows I ever recorded for Something Blue.

For today I picked a song Gary wrote called “The Phoenicians”. Introducing the song Gary said that he wrote it for Robert Palmer who was a famous writer and journalist and also an Arkansas musician.

Thanks Marty, today we’re hearing an original song recorded at the HairyLarryLand Studio.

Starting as a duo and then a trio Bebop Beatniks kept adding musicians until it became a sextet. When we recorded our album, “Leaves” resident Beatniks were Tyler Remagen, sax and flute; Sid Davis, trumpet; Emily Lindley, vibes; Alex Washam, drums; Paul Nunis, bass and vocals; and Hairy Larry, piano and vocals. Every one of us lives in Northeast Arkansas and we were all students in the ASU jazz program except for Paul, who is on the faculty.

The album includes one standard, a song by Sid Davis, a song by Paul Nunis, and three songs that I wrote. Today we’ll hear one of mine that I titled “In The Zone”.