DJ Hairy Larry Presents Hairy Larry Playing Lady Bird

DJ Hairy Larry Presents Hairy Larry Playing Lady Bird
From The Archives Of Something Blue April 6, 2025

Thanks Marty, today we’re going to dig all the way back to last week when we had a session at HairyLarryLand.

My friend, Chris Isom, was coming to town for Spring Break and he got in touch. We wanted to get together to play some music so I got to work setting up a session. Our fellow student, Spencer Rawlins, said he could play bass. He used to play with Chris in Common Time.

So I scheduled a session for Tuesday, March 25 and I started reaching out to horn players. Paul Lessard who plays alto sax in Bebop Beatniks was good for that date as was Craig Collison who plays vibes.

We all have close ties to the ASU Music Department. For the liner notes I wrote, “Chris, Spencer, and I were jazz students at Arkansas State University and we all studied under and played with Craig Collison, who was the director of percussion studies. Paul Lessard is currently on the faculty teaching music theory and composition.”

So, personnel for the session are

Paul Lessard – alto sax
Craig Collison – vibes
Chris Isom – drums
Spencer Rawlins – bass
and
Hairy Larry – piano

Well, we hit the ground running playing two of my original songs and then we finished the session with two jazz standards. We were there for about two hours and when we were done we’d laid down the album, “1625 Groove Street”.

I contacted Sam Brown and got permission to use his fantastic painting, “Spiral Speak”, for the album artwork.

Go to the Something Blue website at sbblues.com for a link to Sam Brown’s website and to the album where you can see the artwork and hear all four songs.

I picked a great song to play today, “Lady Bird” by Tadd Dameron.

So now, here’s the Broadcast Premier of “Lady Bird” on “1625 Groove Street”, recorded by ASU graduates and faculty, at my studio, HairyLarryLand, on March 25, 2025.

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Cover art by Sam Brown Art – www.ceruleansam.com

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And that’s “Lady Bird”, recorded by my good friends, at HairyLarryLand on March 25, 2025. Don’t miss Something Blue, Saturday night at 10:00, to hear Gerald Clayton, Kurt Elling, and Jordan VanHemert.

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