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.

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.”

Thanks Marty, today I’m going to sing a song I learned from a blues legend, Sam Myers.

I love the King Biscuit Blues Festival and I used to attend every year. One of my favorite acts was Anson Funderburgh and the Rockets with Sam Myers. When they played I was always front and center dancing to their great blues.

One of the songs Sam did was “I’m Your Professor”. Because of ASU I just had to add the song to my repertoire. It’s a jump blues with humorous lyrics.

Well, Sam died in 2006, but I kept on singing that song. And when Delta Legends played at The Biscuit there I was with John and Jeremy singing “I’m Your Professor”. Of course, I dedicated it to the memory of Sam Myers.

MixRemix On Anonradio - From The Creative Commons Jazz Library - 2023-06-30
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31:20
David Dellacroce-Relatively Unobjectionable Melodies
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/david-dellacroce/relatively-unobjectionable-melodies
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9:42
Sonar Production-Funk Collection
https://www.jamendo.com/album/497258/funk-collection
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19:16
Nelson Jenstad-Upon A Time
https://www.jamendo.com/album/86932/upon-a-time
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48:36
Jazz Cafe - Solxis
https://www.jamendo.com/album/171602/jazz-cafe
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40:20
oprachina - the jazz farm
https://www.jamendo.com/album/9986/the-jazz-farm
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34:03
Pk jazz Collective - Pearls of our Life (LP, 2012) [SCL051]
https://archive.org/details/SCL051
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DJ Hairy Larry Presents the Eleven O'clock Small Group Playing Grumpy Cat At SXSW
From The Archives Of Something Blue 2023-06-25

Thanks Marty, today we're going to hear an original jazz song with a spoken word part about popular culture in the internet age.

My advisor, Tim Crist, was always encouraging composition students to involve others in multimedia projects. So I put together Trilogy For The Arts, an outdoor happening featuring jazz music, spoken word, metal sculpture, poetry, dance, photography, and audio and video recording.

I also want to thank Don Bowyer and Ken Carroll for saying yes and helping me make this happen.

The Eleven O'clock Small Group played the jazz. Trevor Scudder welded the sculpture. Lizz Etzkorn was dancing with hula hoops. Karen Newberry, Rick Lott, Gregory Hansen, and Mike Luster read poetry.

So, mostly ASU students and faculty, living and working in Arkansas.

From The Archives Of Something Blue June 18, 2023

Thanks Marty, today we’re going to hear an original country song I recorded at KASU Bluesday Tuesday.

I had been promoting The Salty Dogs on Delta Boogie and Something Blue for several years. Brad Williams sent me their CDs and I was knocked out. I mean how does a band sound progressive and old time country at the same time. Their country sound has a lot of rock and gospel included. I guess I would say they are a country band that rocks and sings gospel from the heart.

DJ Hairy Larry Present The Salty Dogs
From The Archives Of Something Blue June 18, 2023

Thanks Marty, today we're going to hear an original country song I recorded at KASU Bluesday Tuesday.

I had been promoting The Salty Dogs on Delta Boogie and Something Blue for several years. Brad Williams sent me their CDs and I was knocked out. I mean how does a band sound progressive and old time country at the same time. Their country sound has a lot of rock and gospel included. I guess I would say they are a country band that rocks and sings gospel from the heart.

DJ Hairy Larry Presents Apple, Rounds, Cobb, and Hees Playing Daniel
From The Archives Of Something Blue June 11, 2023

Thanks Marty, today we're going to hear an acoustic quartet play an Elton John song at the Arkansas Roots Festival.

When I heard the Apple, Rounds, Cobb, and Hees band playing at the Arkansas Roots Festival they were so relaxed and their delivery was so smooth it was like hearing some musicians playing out on the back porch.

They sounded great, but it wasn't until I heard the recordings that I realized how good they really play.

Every part well played, every note in the right place, vocals that tell the story, harmonies always spot on, all blending together in a balanced sound.

It just don't get no better than this.

So now, here's Apple, Rounds, Cobb, and Hees singing the Elton John song, "Daniel", recorded at the Arkansas Roots Festival on April 8, 2017.

MixRemix On Anonradio - From The Creative Commons Jazz Library - 2023-06-09
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29:08
Oleg O Kachanko-Taste Of Love
https://www.jamendo.com/album/156909/taste-of-love
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17:09
SONIC MYSTERY-GREAT MOVES
https://www.jamendo.com/album/38075/great-moves
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38:46
Hairy Larry Live at Craighead Forest Bandshell on 2013-09-08
https://archive.org/details/hl2013-09-08
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1:23:41
Christian Petermann-Various Music
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6:01:54
Split Phase - Compendium [nvr050]
https://archive.org/details/nvr050
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38:55
Regis V. Gronoff-Paris in the Rain
https://www.jamendo.com/album/43607/paris-in-the-rain
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