Excerpted from the stream recorded on January 4, 2022.

01 Low Earth Orbit
02 Eventually
03 JTown Blues
04 Crates
05 Blue Goose
06 Bunnies
07 The Blue Crane

Hairy Larry's twitch stream is at

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Thanks Marty, today I’ve got a jazz standard played by a jazz legend.

Joe Lee started playing professionally in Mississippi in the fifties. He played in big bands and combos, even with Mose Allison. He was a heavily recorded sideman in Memphis, Tennessee, and he coproduced the Thomas Wayne hit, “Tragedy” with Scotty Moore at Bill Black’s Fernwood Studio in the late fifties.

"Sail Boats" by Larry Heyl  
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This version of "Sail Boats" was excerpted from the stream recorded on December 3, 2021. Hairy Larry's current schedule is Tuesday and Thursday at 3:00 PM and weekend performances to be arranged.  

This is the last Gamer+ News of 2021 and the first Gamer+ News on our new schedule. I bet a lot of you were wondering why you didn't get the news last Monday. Well, here it is! Now on a Friday.

Tomorrow, Inspired Unreality open game chat at 11:00 AM Central is in the gamerplus chat rooms at Tenkar's Tavern on Discord. It's the first Saturday of the month so this week our topic will be Fantasy and Science Fiction.

If you haven't been to Tenkar's Tavern there's a link for you here.

https://gamerplus.org/index

Chill Jazz Piano features sparse rhythms and melodic lines that appeal to a general audience, as well as jazz fans. Chill Jazz Piano has been a part of every era and almost every school of jazz throughout jazz history. If you are interested in playing jazz piano you can learn from the master's music and you can take lessons right on the internet. Or you can use this website to discover jazz songs everyone can enjoy.

"Crates" by Larry Heyl  
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This version of "Crates" was excerpted from the stream recorded on December 16, 2021. Hairy Larry's current schedule is Tuesday and Thursday at 3:00 PM and weekend performances to be arranged.  

Excerpted from the stream recorded on December 16, 2021.

01 African Violet
02 Eventually
03 Crates
04 Low Earth Orbit
05 Causality
06 Blue Goose
07 Knockin Boots

Hairy Larry's twitch stream is at

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The HairyLarryLand website is at

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From The Archives Of Something Blue December 12, 2021

1. DJ Hairy Larry presents Bebop Beatniks
2. Something Blue – Wastin – 29 second spot

Thanks Marty, today I’m playing a jazz classic recorded at a worship service.

Before the pandemic I used to be the Music Director at the Brookland United Methodist Church so it was a no brainer for me to book Bebop Beatniks in for our Wednesday night contemporary worship. At the time the Wednesday night service was attended heavily by youth so I took it as part of my job to expose them to all kinds of music played by regional bands, folk, blues, bluegrass, ambient, jazz, and even some original worship songs.

On July 20, 2016, it was my turn to get my band, Bebop Beatniks, to play. Bebop Beatniks does jazz standards and originals so we rehearsed the John Coltrane song, “A Love Supreme”, to close the service. Playing in Bebop Beatniks were Kevin Tinker, trumpet; Paul Nunis, bass; and I’m on piano. The entire band has ties to ASU.

When I started working on the arrangement I found Coltrane’s hand written chart that was used at the session when “A Love Supreme” was recorded. This piece of sheet music is considered so important in the history of jazz that it is at The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. Thanks to the internet I didn’t have to go to the Smithsonian but instead I wrote my Bebop Beatniks arrangement referring to a digitization of the original score.

Of course now there’s a big buzz going on about “A Love Supreme” including an NPR segment titled “John Coltrane’s Masterpiece Breathes New Life With ‘A Love Supreme: Live In Seattle'”. Not surprisingly, Bebop Beatniks were five years ahead of the curve.

Visit the Something Blue website at sbblues.com for links to the entire concert, the score, and NPR.

And now, here’s Bebop Beatniks playing “A Love Supreme” recorded July 20, 2016, at the Brookland United Methodist Church.

Bebop Beatniks Live at Brookland United Methodist Church on 2016-07-20
archive.org/details/hl2016-07-20

John Coltrane’s Handwritten Outline for His Masterpiece A Love Supreme

John Coltrane’s Masterpiece Breathes New Life With ‘A Love Supreme: Live In Seattle’
www.npr.org/2021/08/26/1031013271/john-coltranes-masterpiece-breathes-new-life-with-a-love-supreme-live-in-seattle

Immediately following the year that artificially paused many releases, in 2021, the floodgates broke loose. It was nearly impossible to keep track of all recordings released between this Thanksgiving and the prior one. And, even ignoring this, the quality and volume made it especially difficult to rank even the ones you did notice. Consider even just established saxophonists; Pharaoh Sanders, Archie Shepp, Charles Lloyd, Henry Threadgill, Gary Bartz, Dave Liebman, Kenny Garrett, Chris Potter, Steve Coleman, and Joe Lovano all produced something this year. How do you even begin to compare them?

Well, our team valiantly tried its best. Even then, perhaps a commentary on the circumstances in which we found ourselves, a consensus was more difficult than usual. I can’t pretend to speak for anyone else, but I have no doubt there were many great albums released that I have personally overlooked. But, those caveats aside, here are the ten that we collectively felt were the best releases of 2021. Ties are ordered alphabetically by the leader’s last name. — Rob Shepherd

Hairy Larry plays chill jazz piano December 14, 2021.

Playlists from Hairy Larry's twitch livestream.

01 Eventually
02 Crates
03 Sail Boats
04 Bunnies
05 Low Earth Orbit
06 Knockin Boots

Video playlist
https://archive.org/details/hl2021-12-14.video

Audio playlist
https://archive.org/details/hl2021-12-14