Thanks Marty. Today we’re going to hear jazz from NJHB recorded at the very beginning.

I was planning on starting the New Jazz In Jonesboro concerts at TheArts@311 in 2013. It was Christmas break so I scheduled a session on December 29, 2012, with the founding members on NJHB.

I was rolling tape but I wasn’t really expecting to record an album. Turns out we played pretty good and we did. We recorded live in the studio, with just two mics recording the room, and we did it the NJHB way. We improvised the arrangements. We recorded four songs. I think I was the only musician there who had ever played them before. As I usually do with NJHB songs I made a radio mix for Arkansas Roots.

In our favor we had a room full of outstanding musicians.

Mike Lovell – guitar
Garrett Tyler – drums
Matt Jackson – bass
Hairy Larry – Fender Rhodes
Cody Ballard – tenor sax
and
Joseph Curtis – trumpet and flugelhorn

MixRemix On Anonradio - From The Creative Commons Jazz Library - 2024-08-02
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26:42
Nelson Jenstad-How To Buy A TV
https://www.jamendo.com/album/92697/how-to-buy-a-tv
CC BY-SA

18:37
Gavin Gamboa-Mama's Hands
https://gavingamboa.bandcamp.com/album/mamas-hands
CC BY-NC-SA

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

32:45
Serge Quadrado-Urban
https://www.jamendo.com/album/458069/urban
CC BY-NC-ND

41:12
Pharmacopia-One To Many
https://www.jamendo.com/album/462752/one-to-many
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19:14
NJHB Live at HairyLarryLand on 2018-07-28
https://archive.org/details/hl2018-07-28
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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.

Not only do we improvise the solos, we improvise the arrangements too. We play all original charts and it's different charts every gig and different musicians too.