DJ Hairy Larry Presents Jay Shepherd Playing All Of Me
From The Archives Of Something Blue 2026-08-02
Jay Shepherd – Live At The Delta Jazz Workshop
Thanks Marty. Today we’re going to hear a jazz standard performed at the Delta Jazz Workshop.
Jay Shepherd was a featured guest on the Bebop Beatniks album, “Church” and on my album, “Bop Soup”. Then in the Summer of 2025 I recorded an album, “Millenium Fair” with Jay playing classical guitar.
I had also recorded Jay playing with a jazz band on July 12, 2016, in the Fine Arts Recital Hall at the A-State Delta Jazz Workshop. I have been playing songs from that concert on Something Blue so I asked him if he wanted to release it on HairyLarryLand.
He was good with that so we released “Jay Shepherd Live At The Delta Jazz Workshop” in December of 2025.
The cover photo is a satellite image from NASA of the Lena River Delta, not the delta but a delta. It looks like a tree with green leaves with another tree in the background with red leaves. All NASA images are public domain.
The song, “All Of Me” was written in 1931 so it will enter the public domain in 2027. It was performed by Belle Baker in a radio broadcast in 1931. “Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra recorded the song on December 1 that year, with vocalist Mildred Bailey; this went to the top of the US pop charts.” Louis Armstrong recorded it a few weeks later and his version went to #1.
“the definitive version was sung by Billie Holiday in 1941”
Frank Sinatra recorded it several times and “Willie Nelson’s recording of the song was included in his Stardust album and reached No. 3 on the Hot Country Songs chart in 1978.”
Thanks to Wikipedia for help with the details aboout “All Of Me”.
All of these songs are vocals. We’re going to hear Jay Shepherd play a more modern version as an instrumental.
Playing on “All Of Me” were
Jay Shepherd – guitar
Shane Chastain – piano
Terrell Montgomery – bass
and
Keyven Dunn – drums
All fine, outstanding, Arkansas musicians.
As always I will include links to the music at sbblues.com.
So now, recorded on July 12, 2016, at the Delta Jazz Workshop here’s Jay Shepherd playing “All Of Me”.
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And that’s Jay Shepherd playing “All Of Me”, recorded right here at ASU. Don’t miss Something Blue, Saturday night at 10:00, to hear Bob James, Tom Scott, and Emmet Cohen.
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