DJ Hairy Larry Presents Joy Sanford Playing Wave

From The Archives Of Something Blue 2025-02-16


Joy Sanford and Ron Horton
Thanks Marty, today we’re going to hear our favorite pianist play the Bossa Nova.

I was thrilled when Joy Sanford agreed to play KASU Jazz Thursday on February 24, 2011. She had helped us so many times on so many shows but always as an accompanist, never as the star of the show.

She put together a great band of regional musicians with Ron Horton on trumpet, Craig Collison drums, and Tom Mason, bass. And they really delivered, song after song. I was fortunate to get good recordings at this once in a liftime event.

Bossa Nova is Portuguese for new wave. It’s a Brazilian style incorporating Samba and Jazz. The most prominent composer of Bossa Nova songs is Antonio Carlos Jobim and one of his most played songs is “Wave”.

So now, here’s Joy Sanford playing “Wave” at KASU Jazz Thursday on February 24, 2011.

Joy Sanford Live at Bella’z on 2011-02-24
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Logic

Something Blue – Logic – February 15, 2025


Behind Every Word by Steve Lawson

This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring Tom La Meche, Steve Lawson, and NJHB. For more about the show visit the Something Blue website at sbblues.com.

Don’t miss Something Blue, Saturday night at 10:00 PM CST, at kasu.org.


Tom La Meche-Road Movie

MixRemix On Anonradio – From The Creative Commons Jazz Library
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Behind Every Word by Steve Lawson
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Tom La Meche-Road Movie
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The Next Age of Adventure (Part 1 of 2) – Bruce H. McCosar
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NJHB-Circular Logic
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Stefan Kartenberg-Jazz Instrumental Music
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The Next Age of Adventure (Part 1 of 2) – Bruce H. McCosar
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DJ Hairy Larry Presents NJHB Playing Circular Logic

DJ Hairy Larry Presents NJHB Playing Circular Logic
From The Archives Of Something Blue – 2025-02-09

NJHB – Circular Logic

Thanks Marty, today we’ll hear a band of students play the title track from their first album.

When I came up with the idea of doing the New Jazz In Jonesboro concerts at TheArts@311 I was a jazz student at ASU. So it stood to reason that I would recruit the New Jazz House Band, known as NJHB, from my fellow students.

We had our first session at the HairyLarryLand studio in Jonesboro at the very end of 2012. We recorded four songs, all original compositions. I was the only one who had played any of them before so it was kind of like jumping off into the deep end. No rehearsals, just put the music up on the stand, talk for a minute, and record it.

I took what we recorded and released our first album, “Circular Logic”.

All of what came to be known as the NJHB sound, improvising the arrangements, leaving the chord change, group improvisation, and unusual instrumentation, was on display on that first album. As always, this was the only album with this exact lineup.

Playing at the session were

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

Garrett, Cody, Joseph, and myself were in the ASU jazz program at the time. Mike and Matt attended ASU earlier. We all lived in Northeast Arkansas except for Matt who lives in southeast Missouri.

I’ve got to tell you these guys all played good. The one thing that makes NJHB work is talented musicians.

We generally played arrangements from 15 to 20 minutes long. Not exactly radio friendly. I did a new mix of “Circular Logic” keeping it all there but choosing the best choruses for this podcast. Go to the Something Blue website at sbblues.com for a link to the whole album including 12 plus minutes of this song as originally released.

Ok now, going back to the very beginning, recorded on December 29, 2012, here’s NJHB playing my song, “Circular Logic”.

NJHB-Circular Logic
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Eyes

Something Blue – Eyes – February 8, 2025


Orrin Evans – Liberation Blues

This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring Jazz Alliance, Chet Baker, and Orrin Evans. For more about the show visit the Something Blue website at sbblues.com.

Don’t miss Something Blue, Saturday night at 10:00 PM CST, at kasu.org.

Orrin Evans – Liberation Blues
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Chet Baker – The Italian Sessions
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Jazz Alliance – Live at Jonesboro Public Library on 2011-09-27
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Jazz Alliance – Live at Jonesboro Public Library on 2011-09-27
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DJ Hairy Larry Presents Jazz Alliance Playing Someday My Prince Will Come

From The Archives Of Something Blue 2025-02-02


Jazz Alliance – Live at Jonesboro Public Library on 2011-09-27

Thanks Marty, today we’re going to hear a Disney song recorded at the Jonesboro Public Library.

And not just any Disney song. From the animated classic, “Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs”, “Someday My Prince Will Come” has become a classic and a jazz standard. Disney asked Frank Churchill to write something quaint. I think he outperformed his instructions.

The song was covered by Dave Brubeck, Miles Davis, and Jazz Alliance. I had the great good fortune to record the Jazz Alliance concert at the Jonesboro Public Library on September 27, 2011,for Something Blue.

Playing at the concert were

Ron Horton – trumpet
Craig Collison – vibes
David Eckert – bass

and

Mike Overall – drums

I met Mike Overall in the eighties during my first extended stretch at ASU. I visited in his home following the Maynard Ferguson concert and played with him then and many other times.

Ron Horton and Craig Collison both taught me jazz at ASU after I retired and returned to school to complete my music degree.

David Eckert worked at the Jonesboro Public Library and set up this concert. He also taught bass at ASU.

Friends of mine, these musicians helped me with Blues Fest, Jazz Thursday, and Bebopalooza! There’s a place in my heart for all of them.

Mike Overall passed in 2014. I sang with Wally Fowler at his wake. Craig Collison and Gary Gazaway were in the band.

So, with a tear in my eye, here’s Jazz Alliance playing “Someday My Prince Will Come”.

Jazz Alliance – Live at Jonesboro Public Library on 2011-09-27
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Alabama

Something Blue – Alabama – February 1, 2025


Seth Yacovone Band

This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring Donna Hopkins, Seth Yacovone, and Isaac Hadden. For more about the show visit the Something Blue website at sbblues.com.

Don’t miss Something Blue, Saturday night at 10:00 PM CST, at kasu.org.

Donna Hopkins Band Live at The Moonshadow Tavern on 2025-01-19
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Seth Yacovone Band – Burlington, VT – December 27, 2024
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Isaac Hadden Organ Trio Live at Parkway Brewing Company on 2025-01-18
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Donna Hopkins Photo By Ted Easley
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Everybody

Something Blue – Everybody – January 25, 2025

Alejandro Escovedo

This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring Calexico, Alejandro Escavado, and Pink Talking Fish. For more about the show visit the Something Blue website at sbblues.com.

Don’t miss Something Blue, Saturday night at 10:00 PM CST, at kasu.org.

Alejandro Escovedo Live at North Star on 2001-05-10
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Pink Talking Fish Live at Newton Theatre on 2025-01-17
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Calexico Live at Metro on 2003-10-01
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Rhythms

Something Blue – Rhythms – January 18, 2025

Lee Ritenour & Dave Grusin – Brasil

This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring David Dellacroce, Sun Ra, Lee Ritenour, Dave Grusin, and Hairy Larry. For more about the show visit the Something Blue website at sbblues.com.

Don’t miss Something Blue, Saturday night at 10:00 PM CST, at kasu.org.


Sun Ra – aurora Borealis
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DJ Hairy Larry Presents Hairy Larry Playing Noumenology


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DJ Hairy Larry Presents Hairy Larry Playing Noumenology
From The Archives Of Something Blue 2025-01-12

Thanks Marty, today I’m going to improvise jazz piano on a song inspired by Immanuel Kant.

Now Immanuel Kant was an influential philosopher back in the 18th century and he remains influential today. Kant created a dichotomy between phenomenon and noumena where phenomenon applies to things we can perceive with the senses and noumena are things that cannot be perceived. So I wrote this song called “Noumenolgy” about the study of things that cannot be perceived.

At first I thought this would be an ideal academic tenure, I mean, who could prove you wrong? But further thought led me to many scientists who deal with noumena on a daily basis.

Take cosmology for instance, the study of the origins of the universe. Cosmologists have come up with the idea of the big bang, something that happened about 14 billion years ago. They check how fast the universe is expanding to come up with a number like that. And they keep building bigger and bigger telescopes because the farther away something is the longer it took for it’s light to get to us which means we’re really looking back into the past when we look at distant galaxies.

Well, the big bang is noumenal. I mean, nobody’s going to actually perceive it. So you could say that some cosmologists are, in fact, noumenologists.

Or take particle physics. String theory, where we look at the stuff that makes protons and electrons, started as a mathematical exercise without proof in the real world. Definitely noumenologically inclined.

But those particle physicists kept building bigger and bigger cyclotrons banging atoms together to see what escaped and they started detecting the mathematically predicted sub-particles. I read last week that they discovered a particle that has mass going in one direction and no mass going in the other. Now, how does that work?

Moving on from philosophy, cosmology, and physics to noumena that actually affect ordinary people. Songwriters have written more songs about it than any other subject. Stories about it finance the publishing industry allowing them to publish books on philosophy and cosmology. And Jesus preached about it as his core message. Of course, I’m talking about love, something everyone experiences that has no phenomenal existence.

You can’t see it. You can’t touch it. What is love? remains a valid philosophical question. So there we are. Back to Kant.

On the song “Noumenology” I scat sing with a bebop and a doowop replacing actual words. So I got to thinking this morning, maybe I should write a lyric? Maybe about a cosmologist and a physicist who fall in love. Or even better a cosmologist and a physicist who bond over their shared their love for noumenology.

Which brings us to the big question. Just what is up with Hairy Larry’s brain and how does he come up with this stuff? I’m going to reveal my secret. Sometimes it’s dreams. And sometimes, in the morning, when I’m not ready to get out of bed, you know what I mean, you’ve been there, my mind just goes tick tick tick and the next thing you know I’ve written another podcast.

So now, from my “Hairy Larry Livestreams” album, here I am scat singing to “Noumenology”.

Hairy Larry Livestream
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Ancestral

Something Blue – Ancestral – January 11, 2024

David Murray – Blues For Memo

This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring Karl Denson, David Murray, and Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah. For more about the show visit the Something Blue website at sbblues.com.

Don’t miss Something Blue, Saturday night at 10:00 PM CST, at kasu.org.


Karl Denson – The Bridge

David Murray – Blues for Memo – with Saul Williams
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Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah – Ancestral Recall
chiefadjuah.bandcamp.com/album/ancestral-recall

Karl Denson – The Bridge

The Bridge


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Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah – Ancestral Recall
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