Blueness

Posted on February 18, 2023 by Hairy Larry

Something Blue – Blueness – February 18, 2023

This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring Steve Lawson, Bob Reynolds, Trafic de Blues, Fortadelis, and Jacques Pioch. 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.

MixRemix – Creative Commons
jazz.mixremix.cc
archive.org/details/ccj2023-02-10

Jacques Pioch-En marche vers Jerusalem Improvisations 2
www.jamendo.com/album/464396/en-marche-vers-je-rusalem-improvisations-2
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Trafic de Blues-Fin de cavale
www.jamendo.com/album/1820/fin-de-cavale
CC BY-NC-SA

Behind Every Word by Steve Lawson
music.stevelawson.net/album/behind-every-word
CC BY-NC-ND

Bob Reynolds-Live in New York
bobreynolds.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-new-york
CC BY-NC-SA

Fortadelis-Unexpected Journey
www.jamendo.com/album/178342/unexpected-journey
CC BY-NC-ND
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Hairy Larry Presents Will Riley

Posted on February 12, 2023 by Hairy Larry

Hairy Larry Presents Will Riley
From The Archives Of Something Blue February 12, 2023

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Thanks Marty, today we’re going to hear an original song that has blues, jazz, and gospel influences.

I met Will Riley at my juke house in Old Town Nettleton. He said he wanted to come and play so we scheduled him in. He became a regular performer playing mostly original songs. One night, on his last set, Bix Smith set in and I knew that I wanted to record what I was hearing.

So we scheduled some sessions during our off hours and recorded the songs featured on the Will Riley album, “My Baby’s Got Me By The Blues”. Eleven originals, each one better than the others. Fantastic work writing, playing, and recording.

I picked “Been Down To The Water” to play today because it’s a gospel song played to a blues change featuring jazz guitar. A little bit of all the ingredients that make up Arkansas Roots.

Will Riley is Billy Lee Riley’s nephew. He lived in Jonesboro when we recorded the album and now lives in Walnut Ridge. Bix Smith was from Imboden but he also lived in Jonesboro. Besides being a great jazz guitarist Bix was also a fine artist and he did the artwork for the album cover.

Also playing on the song was my son, Uldis Heyl, on bass and John “Street” Sifford on drums. Both of them were also living in Jonesboro when we had the recording sessions that produced this tremendous music.

I’ll post a link to the whole album on the Something Blue website at sbblues.com.

So now, recorded in 1995, here’s Will Riley singing his own song, “Been Down To The Water”.

archive.org/details/my_babys_got_me_by_the_blues
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Misunderstood

Posted on February 11, 2023 by Hairy Larry

Something Blue – Misunderstood – December 14, 2019 and February 11, 2023


This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring Charlie Hunter and The A-Beez. 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.

Charlie Hunter Live at Dazzle@Baur’s on 2019-08-02
archive.org/details/ch2019-08-02.dpa4015a.flac16

The A-Beez Live at Chianti on 2019-07-25
archive.org/details/abeez2019-07-25
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DJ Hairy Larry Presents Pansy Hall Singing Misty Blue

Posted on February 5, 2023 by Hairy Larry



DJ Hairy Larry Presents Pansy Hall
From The Archives Of Something Blue February 5, 2023

Thanks Marty, today we’re going to hear some southern soul recorded at Soundworks, right here in Jonesboro.

I played with Aaron Love at Blues Fest 91 but we never performed together on a regular basis until I had my juke house at Old Town Nettleton. In 1997 I put together a band featuring Aaron and a female vocalist, Pansy Hall. We had a tight Memphis sound with harmony vocals. We sang Blues and R&B cover songs as well as a few originals.

When we were promoting Blues Fest we would play live on Scene Midday at KAIT. That’s how we came up with the band name, Aaron Love and His TV Band. In 1997 we recorded an album at Soundworks, Sonny Hunt’s studio. Eric Crewes was the engineer at the sessions and we successfully captured the band’s sound.

The song I’m playing today, “Misty Blue”, features Pansy Hall on lead vocals and Aaron Love on background vocals. Pansy graduated from ASU and went to work at KAIT as a news producer. The other musicians in the band were all Blues Alley regulars, holding down the jams night after night. I don’t have song by song musician credits but featured on the album were.

Aaron Love – vocals, drums
Pansy Hall – vocals, percussion
Hairy Larry – vocals, guitar, percussion
Uldis Heyl – vocals, guitar
Richard Stevens – bass, flute, mandolin, piano
Donald Deloach – keyboards, drums
Kier Heyl – keyboards, drums, percussion
and
Richard Murray – saxophone

Aaron passed on a few years ago. Pansy and some of the other musicians have moved. But, at the time, all of these musician’s were living in Jonesboro.

So now, recorded in 1997, here’s Aaron Love and His TV Band featuring Pansy Hall on vocals singing “Misty Blue”.

deltaboogie.com/tvband/
deltaboogie.com/tvband/tvbandcd.htm
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Something Blue – Pharoah

Posted on February 4, 2023 by Hairy Larry

Something Blue – Pharoah – February 4, 2023

This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring J. D. Allen, Masao Nakajima, Eji Oyewole, and Koichi Matsukaze. 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.

J.D. Allen – Pharoah’s Children
www.crisscrossjazz.com/album/1221.html

Masao Nakajima Quartet, Kemo Sabe
bbemusic.bandcamp.com/album/kemo-sabe

Eji Oyewole – Charity Begins At Home
bbemusic.bandcamp.com/album/charity-begins-at-home-edits

Koichi Matsukaze Trio feat Ryojiro Furusawa – At the Room 427
bbemusic.bandcamp.com/album/at-the-room-427
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DJ Hairy Larry Presents Hairy Larry playing “Chunga”

Posted on January 29, 2023 by Hairy Larry

DJ Hairy Larry Presents Hairy Larry playing “Chunga”
From The Archives Of Something Blue January 29, 2023

Thanks Marty, today we’re going to hear an original post bop jazz piece recorded at Harriet O’Neal’s piano studio.

Regular listeners know that I’m a composition major at ASU. There’s more to being a composition major than putting notes on a page. You are also expected to arrange readings of your pieces, make recordings, and perform recitals.

I wrote a piece called “Chunga”, a prequel to Frank Zappa’s “Chunga’s Revenge”. Harriet O’Neal was my piano teacher and she agreed to help play a reading and make a recording of the piece. Harriet was raised in Wynne, Arkansas, and she taught at ASU.

I pulled some top area musicians to fill out the rhythm section. On bass I had David Eckert, librarian at the Jonesboro Public Library who gave lessons at ASU and on drums, John Long, band director at Walnut Ridge.

For the saxophone parts I had two excellent musicians who I had played with in the jazz program at ASU, Aaron Decker – alto, and Cody Ballard – tenor. The bari player I had scheduled was out of town so I played the bari parts on my synthesizer.

I recorded the song to my Zoom H4. We played two takes. The second one was better.

So now, recorded on November 21, 2011 at Harriet O’Neals piano studio, right here in Northeast Arkansas, here’s my post bop composition, “Chunga”.

archive.org/details/chunga
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Funhouse

Posted on January 28, 2023 by Hairy Larry

Something Blue – Funhouse – January 28, 2023

311 – Roseland Theater – August 16th, 2016
Photography by Jordan Inglee
www.visualsuplex.com

This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring Doctor Deathray, Mosey Beat, and Zero. 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.

Mosey Beat Live at Funhouse Southside on 2023-01-15
archive.org/details/mb2023-01-15

Zero Live at Roseland Theater on 1993-03-07
archive.org/details/zero1993-03-07.stage.mtx-km254-c61-vox-sax.chief.mcgee.miller.sirmick.163303.flac1648

Doctor Deathray – These are all off my upcoming album, 51 Miles From Nowhere.
doctordeathray.bandcamp.com
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DJ Hairy Larry Presents Jay Shepherd Playing Freddie The Freeloader

Posted on January 22, 2023 by Hairy Larry

DJ Hairy Larry Presents Jay Shepherd Playing Freddie The Freeloader
From The Archives Of Something Blue January 22, 2023

Thanks Marty, today we’re going to hear a Miles Davis blues performed at A-State Delta Jazz Workshop.

Jay Shepherd and Shugga Shane were regulars at Blues Fest so I already knew Jay when we were taking Jazz Improv together at ASU. He also played with Bebop Beatniks quite a bit and he is a featured soloist on our new live album, “Church”.

On July 12, 2016, I recorded Jay’s band at the Delta Jazz Workshop evening concert held in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. They played a great set of jazz standards ranging from swing to fusion and they closed with “Freddie Freeloader”, a song from the Mile’s Davis album, “Kind Of Blue”.

Playing on the song we will hear Jay Shepherd on guitar; Shane Chastain, piano; Terrell Montgomery, bass, and Keyven Dunn, drums, all fine outstanding Northeast Arkansas musicians.

So now, recorded right here at ASU on July 12, 2016, here’s Jay Shepherd playing “Freddie Freeloader”.

www.jayshepherdguitar.com/
archive.org/details/bebop-beatniks-church
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Something Blue – Question

Posted on January 21, 2023 by Hairy Larry

Something Blue – Question – January 21, 2023

This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring Julian Lage, Jakob Bro, and EST. 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.

Julian Lage – Love Hurts

Esborn Svensson Trio – Live In London 2018

Jakob Bro & Joe Lovano – Once Around the Room: A Tribute to Paul Motian
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DJ Hairy Larry Presents Joe Lee And Friends Playing If I Had You

Posted on January 15, 2023 by Hairy Larry

Thanks Marty, today we’re going to hear a jazz standard played on a bari sax.

Joe Lee and I recorded “Boppin’ At The Forest” in the studio, that is, in the front room of his home while I recorded in his office surrounded by Alley memorabilia. Except for one track.

“If I Had You” was recorded by Joe Lee and Friends at the Jonesboro Public Library. It was in the spring of 2001 and in between the sessions Joe booked a gig. At the gig Joe featured Dru Davison playing a bari feature. So the personnel on this song was just Dru and the rhythm section, Joy Sanford – Piano, Tom Mason – Bass, and Mike Overall – Drums. I don’t know if you’ve ever done live recording but a lot my job as audio engineer was holding my mouth right when I heard something exceptional hoping for a good recording all the way to the end of the song.

After Joe and I listened to the recordings Joe decided to add this Dru Davison feature to his “Boppin’ At The Forest” CD. Which is why, when you are recording a band, you always want to keep the tape rolling.

Except for Joe all of the musicians in Joe Lee and Friends had either attended or taught at ASU. Joe took his music degree at the University Of Mississippi in Oxford and he taught music at Trumann High School. He also recorded many Arkansas musicians for his label, Alley Records.

Ok now, here’s Joe Lee and Friends featuring Dru Davison on bari sax playing “If I Had You”.
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