This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring Soulive, Joe Lee, and Will Bernard. 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.

Will Bernard Projects Live at Beach Chalet on 1998-04-08
archive.org/details/WillBernard1998-04-08

Soulive Live at Higher Ground on 1999-08-11
archive.org/details/soulive1999-08-11

Joe Lee Swings On
deltaboogie.com/alleyrecords/
www.deltaboogie.com/deltamusicians/leej/index.htm

Bebop Beatniks
Horns and Vocals Sectional
ASU Band Room
August 6, 2023

Song List

1 African Violet

Personnel

Sophie Hacker - guitar
Rike Robinson - trombone
Tyler Remagen - sax
Hairy Larry - piano

During our sectional we recorded African Violet to test our setup. It came out pretty good. You just have to imagine Alex's great drum solos as we stop to give him 4s.

Bebop Beatniks
Horns and Vocals Sectional
ASU Band Room
August 6, 2023

Song List

1 African Violet

Personnel

Sophie Hacker - guitar
Rike Robinson - trombone
Tyler Remagen - sax
Hairy Larry - piano

DJ Hairy Larry Presents Jay Shepherd Playing Blue Bossa
From The Archives Of Something Blue 2023-07-30

Thanks Marty, today we're going to hear a bossa, featuring two of my friends, recorded at the Delta Jazz Workshop.

Besides being a jazz clinic the Delta Jazz Workshop is a mini festival with five jazz concerts from Monday through Friday. You can't learn jazz without listening to jazz and since there's no music like live music you can't play jazz without listening to live jazz. So the nightly concerts are actually an integral part of the learning experience.

The concerts were also a great opportunity for me to record Northeast Arkansas jazz musicians for Something Blue. I mean, I was going to the concerts anyway so I might as well roll tape, I mean fill flash cards, the modern day equivalent of tape.

On July 12, 2016, it was Jay Shepherd's turn to bring his band and play. I've known Jay for years and he's played guitar with Bebop Beatniks and with NJHB. He plays stand out performances on the new Bebop Beatniks album, "Church" and he is also featured playing with NJHB on "Bop Soup" recorded at my Senior Recital.

Also featured on "Blue Bossa" is my friend Tyler Worsham on piano. He helped me many times at my recitals. He played at Trilogy For The Arts and he is featured on the NJHB album, "Blue Goose", recorded at New Jazz In Jonesboro in the Jonesboro Public Library.

Also playing on "Blue Bossa" are Terrell Montgomery, bass and Keyven Dunn, drums. All of these musicians were students at ASU.

MixRemix On Anonradio - From The Creative Commons Jazz Library - 2023-07-28
jazz.mixremix.cc

16:24
Regis V Gronoff-Tokyo Thunder Dance
https://www.jamendo.com/album/103497/tokyo-thunder-dance
CC BY-NC-SA

24:46
Damascene by Secret Archives of the Vatican
https://secretarchivesofthevatican.bandcamp.com/album/damascene
CC NC-SA

1:30:53
BOB by Lobo Loco
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lobo_Loco/BOB/
CC BY-NC-ND

58:30
Queen of the Woods by Dee Yan-Key
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dee_Yan-Key/Queen_of_the_Woods/
CC BY-NC-SA

43:07
Tulio Borges-Batente de Pau de Casarao
https://www.jamendo.com/album/144962/batente-de-pau-de-casarao
CC BY

37:02
Kogani - Suerte
https://www.jamendo.com/album/5285/kogani
CC BY-NC-SA

Bebop Beatniks
Craighead Forest Bandshell
Jonesboro, Arkansas
July 23, 2023

Songs

00:00 African Violet
11:17 And that was African Violet ...
11:24 The Blue Crane
20:02 If anybody wants to dance ...
20:14 Low Earth Orbit
27:21 I work hard writing lyrics ...
27:54 Sail Boats
33:35 Introducing the band ...
33:53 Freddy's Blues
39:22 For our closer ...
39:29 Malaysia
48:00 outtro

Personnel

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

This show was livestreamed on Youtube and edited in OpenShot.

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MixRemix On Anonradio - From The Creative Commons Jazz Library - 2023-07-21
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4:28
"Bizarre" by Viktor Séthy
https://www.jamendo.com/album/38872/bizarre-by-viktor-sethy
CC BY

42:06
Mike Allen-Delta
https://www.jamendo.com/album/129928/delta
CC BY-NC-SA

52:13
evolution by Bruce H. McCosar
https://archive.org/details/evolution-McCosar
CC BY-SA


33:23
JoosTVD-For Your Pleasure Vol3
https://www.jamendo.com/album/161376/for-your-pleasure-vol-3-2016
CC BY-NC-SA

51:53
Doumen Suite by Pharmacopia
https://archive.org/details/DoumenSuite
CC BY-SA

31:16
This Isn't Magic It Is Just Music by Pierce Murphy
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Pierce_Murphy/This_Isnt_Magic_It_Is_Just_Music/
CC BY

This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring GrayMic, Regis V. Gronoff, Gaiapeace, and Paolo Pavan. 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.

MixRemix Creative Commons Jazz Library
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Inside – Paolo Pavan
www.jamendo.com/album/15112/inside
CC BY-NC-SA

Gaiapeace-piano works
CC BY-NC-ND

Jazz Friends-Jazz Friends 2013 – Guitars in Jazz
www.jamendo.com/album/118676/jazz-friends-2013-guitars-in-jazz
CC BY-NC-SA

Graymic-Jazz Ballads
www.jamendo.com/album/478781/jazz-ballads
CC BY-NC-ND

Strange Boat, Strange Cargo – Régis V. Gronoff
rvgmusic.bandcamp.com/album/strange-boat-strange-cargo
CC BY-NC-SA

DJ Hairy Larry Presents Hairy Larry Playing Low Earth Orbit
From The Archives Of Something Blue 2023-07-09

Thanks Marty, today I'm going to take my chill jazz piano into "Low Earth Orbit".

The pandemic was hard on everyone but it was particularly hard on musicians. Many musicians not only had to endure lockdown but they lost their income too.

It was hard on me because, for me, like many other musicians, playing music is not optional. Of course, I practiced every day but as any working musician will tell you, that's not the same. I like to practice but I have to play for an audience.

So when my daughter started livestreaming I thought, maybe that could work for me? I got a twitch account and set up a twitch studio with a powerful computer, lights, and webcams. It was just the kind of project that I like. Technical and creative.

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.”