From The Archives Of Something Blue December 18, 2022

1. DJ Hairy Larry presents Lisa Ahia
2. Something Blue – Spiritual – 29 second spot

Thanks Marty, this week on From The Archives we’re featuring a Hawaiian Christmas song recorded at KASU Jazz For The Holidays.

Jazz For The Holidays is always a great show. On December 7, 2019 The band was joined by Sam Ahia, Lisa’s father. Sam is a well known Hawaiian jazz guitarist.

From The Archives of Something Blue December 31, 2022

DJ Hairy Larry Presents Bebop Beatniks playing “Gotta Lotta”

Thanks Marty, today we’re going to hear one of my jazz pieces played by Bebop Beatniks at the Delta Jazz Workshop.

The ASU Jazz Department holds the Delta Jazz Workshop during the summer, right here at ASU. Every evening they have a jazz concert and before the pandemic, Bebop Beatniks held down the Wednesday night slot. On July 10, 2019, we played one of my songs called “Gotta Lotta”.

I was on piano. Also playing were Jay Shepherd, guitar; Emily Lindley, vibes; Jeremy Jackson, bass; and Alex Washam, drums. All of the musicians are from Northeast Arkansas and most of them studied jazz at ASU.

This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring Joan Baez and the Grateful Dead. 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.

Joan Baez – Live at Oakland Auditorium Arena on 1981-12-31
Grateful Dead – Live at Oakland Auditorium Arena on 1981-12-31
archive.org/details/gd1981-12-31.156059.fob.senn421.voss.miller.clugston.flac2496

We are celebrating the New Year with a Bebop Beatniks retrospective album, all originals performed live, from 2016 through 2019.

Here's the link to free download and streaming at archive.org.

https://archive.org/details/bebop-beatniks-church

Or if your prefer Youtube Music.

https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mf1d0SMAHV60JyGIA-a-i5L0GsFUWfM-Y

I talk about the new album and my song, "Gotta Lotta" on From The Archives Of Something Blue. Here's a link to the podcast on the Something Blue website.

https://sbblues.com/2022/12/31/dj-hairy-larry-presents-bebop-beatniks-playing-gotta-lotta/

Don't miss Something Blue this Saturday, January 7, to hear some more jazz released in 2022 by Joshua Redman, Mary Halvorson, and Wadada Leo Smith.

Something Blue is broadcast on KASU, 91.9 FM and streaming on the internet at kasu.org, every Saturday at 10:00 PM Central.

Bebop Beatniks - Church

1. Gotta Lotta recorded July 10, 2019
Jeremy Jackson - bass, Alex Washam - drums, Hairy Larry - piano, Emily Lindley - vibes, Jay Shepherd - guitar
2. Church recorded May 29, 2016
Kevin Tinker - trumpet, Paul Nunis - bass, Hairy Larry - piano, Sid Davis - trumpet, Joseph Curtis - flugelhorn, Matt Burnside - xylophone, Jay Shepherd - guitar, Chris Isom - drums
3. Sheltered recorded on July 10, 2019
Jeremy Jackson - bass, Alex Washam - drums, Kevin Tinker - trumpet, Michael McGowan - sax, Emily Lindley - vibes, Jay Shepherd - guitar, Hairy Larry - piano and spoken word, "Tear Down and Build Over Again" by Walt Whitman
4. Sweatshirt recorded July 11, 2018
Sid Davis - trumpet, Tyler Remagen - tenor, Paul Nunis - bass, Alex Washam - drums, Hairy Larry - piano
5. Dragonflight recorded November 1, 2016
Sid Davis, Chris Wilson - trumpet, Nicholas Graves - alto, Jonathan Vickers - tenor, Austin Lynn - trombone,
Kyle Kempf - bass, Alex Washam - drums, Larry Heyl - piano
6. Groucho's Cigar recorded on May 13, 2018
Tyler Remagen - tenor, Sid Davis - trumpet, Emily Lindley - vibes, Alex Washam - drums, Spencer Rawlins - bass, Hairy Larry - piano

All songs by Larry Heyl except "Sweatshirt" by Sid Davis

This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring Jazz Alliance, Richard Andersson, and SFJAZZ Collective. 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.

SFJazz Collective – The Music Of Joe Henderson
www.sfjazz.org/shop/cds-dvds/sfjazz-collective-cd-live-at-sfjazz-center-2014/

Richard Andersson Sustainable Quartet – Please Recycle
richardandersson.bandcamp.com/album/please-recycle

Jazz Alliance – Partly Cloudy
archive.org/details/partly_cloudy
hairylarryland.com

Thanks Marty, this week on Something Blue we’re featuring some fine blues women including Suzanne Michell.

Suzanne played at the first Blues Fest in 1991 and she was a regular performer in Jonesboro, both solo and in groups, playing at Blues Fest, Sunday In The Park, Bebopalooza, and other venues around Jonesboro. She has dedicated her life to music, teaching and performing, playing blues, jazz, and folk music.

On May 23, 2010, she brought the Suzanne Michell Trio to the Craighead Forest Bandshell and gave us a brilliant set. Playing with her were Fred Wilson and Will Taylor. The entire trio are Arkansas musicians from Little Rock.

Suzanne and Fred do this marvelous counterpoint on a great old song, “The Sheik Of Araby” including jazz scat vocals and both Suzanne and Fred singing horn parts.

Here they are now, The Suzanne Michell Trio, singing “The Sheik Of Araby”.

archive.org/details/sm2010-05-23

Hairy Larry And The Flying Hungarians
Blues Fest
Craighead Forest Bandshell
Jonesboro, Arkansas
October 9, 2022

00:00 One More Cup Of Coffee
05:05 Setup ...
07:13 Memphis Blues Again
13:05 Ok, we're gonna do ...
13:25 Baby What You Want...

Thanks Marty, I’m Hairy Larry and I’ve got the blues for you.

Kyle Tims got in touch with me about playing at Blues Fest and we were glad to have him perform in September of 1997. I was talking to some of my friends who had played at Blues Fest, Sonny Burgess, Doug Greeno, and Larry Donn, and they told me that Kyle’s father, Tommy Tims, was a rockabilly drummer back in the day. Music runs in the family in Northeast Arkansas so I expected Kyle to put on a good show but everyone was just knocked out by his fantastic blues guitar work following in the footsteps of Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan.

I met John Spencer at Blues Fest and it wasn’t long before we had John and Tommy, The Spencer Brothers, on stage. John came to me with some songs that he and Tom Turner wrote, Tom was the lyricist and John put them to music. John is a regular at KASU events, both playing and in the audience and Tom Turner was raised at Burnt Hill, just down the road from me.