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DJ Hairy Larry Presents Jazz Buskers Playing Autumn Leaves
From The Archives Of Something Blue 2025-12-28

Jazz Buskers – Freddy’s Blues

Thanks Marty. Today we’re going to hear my favorite song recorded at my favorite place, HairyLarryLand.

In the fall of 2024 I saw Eliecer Tamez at Gamer’s Haven when I was there for my Thursday Night D&D campaign. Eliecer played with me in the Jazz Recital Band at ASU and he expressed an interest in getting together and playing agian.

Then at Blues Fest I saw Danielle Russell. She’s been the singer in many rock and blues bands in Northeast Arkansas and she sang with The Flying Hungarians every year at Blues Fest. I asked if she would be interested in singing jazz and she started in on all of her favorite jazz composers.

Eliecer also sings and so somewhere in the back of my brain this idea emerged to start a jazz vocals group with three singers. They were up for it and we started playing at HairyLarryLand a couple of times a month, working up repertoire. We finally settled on six songs that gave us an hour long set. We played our first gig in the Oak Grove Heights City Park at our family reunion and we’ve been on a steady roll ever since.

If you play six songs several times a month for a year you get pretty good at them. The only problem was we needed a bass player. Enter Terrell Montgomery.

I also went to school with Terrell and he helped me many times with my compositions. Terrell and Tyler Worsham gave me my first reading on my bossa Nova song, “Malaysia”, which is now my show closer. They also both played with me in the “Trinity For The Arts” jazz happening on the quad in front of the music department at ASU.

And it just so happened that Terrell was coming to Jonesboro to play at Tyler’s wedding. And I was able to set up a session the next day to record Terrell with Jazz Buskers.

So, on November 3, 2025, we had a session and recorded the Jazz Busker’s album, “Freddy’s Blues”.

And on that album is Eliecer singing my favorite song, “Autumn Leaves”.

So now, from their new album “Freddy’s Blues”, here’s Jazz Buskers, with Terrell Montgomery on bass, singing “Autumn Leaves”.

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