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MixRemix On Anonradio - From The Creative Commons Jazz Library - 2025-01-10

34:26 Regis V Gronoff-Lonesome Traveler https://www.jamendo.com/album/87798/lonesome-traveler CC BY-NC-SA

26:48 Piano Jazz by Andre Zimmermann https://archive.org/details/PianoJazz-AndreZimmermann CC BY

50:19 La vie sous la mer - Bruce H. McCosar https://www.jamendo.com/album/9479/la-vie-sous-la-mer CC BY-SA

56:27 Dead Horse by Charts and Maps https://lostchildren.bandcamp.com/album/dead-horse CC BY-NC-ND

22:54 FMT-Jazzy Cooking Show https://www.jamendo.com/album/480982/jazzy-cooking-show CC BY-NC-ND

14:28 Art Yenta-Mystery of Meetings https://www.jamendo.com/album/75410/mystery-of-meetings CC BY-NC-ND

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John Lee Hooker

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Delta Boogie Newsletter-Gamerplus News - January 2025 - Bebop Beatniks Album - The Dragon's Egg Playtest - Indie Archive

Ok, there's a new Bebop Beatniks album out featuring Paul Lessard on alto sax playing on top of our piano trio with Jeremy Jackson on bass and Alex Washam, drums.

It's called "The Blue Crane" and it's got Audubon on the cover. Want to listen? Here's some links.

Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/hl2024-09-29.album

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At Library Game Day the RPG table was kind enough to let me playtest The Dragon's Egg. The modified combat went well. It's great to just look for ones and not have to add stuff up. (The Dragon's Egg uses D6 dice pools in combat and if you roll a 1 on any die you miss.)

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DJ Hairy Larry Presents Carl Heyl Reading Lawrence Ferlinghetti

From The Archives Of Something Blue 2025-01-05

Thanks Marty, today we're going to hear a poem by Lawrence Ferlinghetti read at the Craighead Forest Bandshell.

Bebop Beatniks was designed with spoken word in mind. It's right there in the band name, Bebop says jazz and Beatniks says beat poetry.

At the Craighead Forest Bandshell on June 18, 2016, Bebop Beatniks opened their set with a song I wrote called "Church" and I invited my son, Carl Heyl, to read a poem called "9" from Lawrence Ferlinghetti's "Coney Island Of The Mind".

As always, Carl was entertaining, and he delivered the poem by portraying the scene, making it come alive for the audience.

Playing in Bebop Beatniks that day were, Kevin Tinker - trumpet, Sid Davis - trumpet, Paul Nunis - bass, and I'm on piano.

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DJ Hairy Larry Presents Jerry Bone Playing Something

From The Archives Of Something Blue 2024-12-29

Jerry Bone And Illa Jones Playing At The Arkansas Roots Festival

Thanks Marty, today we're going to hear an Arkansas musician play all the instruments over a drum track on his arrangement of "Something".

And not just anything either. I'm talking about the George Harrison song "Something", one of the most famous and most popular of the Beatles' songs.

To say Jerry Bone is a fixture in Arkansas music is an understatement. He played bass with Mark Sallings and The Famous Unknowns when they were the house band at B.B. King's Club on Beale Street. He also played with Tony Spinner.

He has a bit of history with KASU too playing with David Lynn Jones, Gerry Moss, and The Lockhouse Orchestra.

Besides playing bass for other musicians Jerry Bone also plays exceptional guitar and has released his own albums. His album, "Yankin' The Covers" is very well produced, which shouldn't be surprising since he runs his own recording studio in Hardy, Arkansas.

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Furry Lewis & Don Nix

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"Rest In Peace dear Sugar Pie DeSanto. So much spunk and soul! Lightnin’ Hopkins, Sonny Boy Williamson, Sugar Pie DeSanto, Howlin’ Wolf, Clifton James backstage at the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, on the 1964 American Folk Blues Festival tour."

via Bob Corritore

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DJ Hairy Larry Presents Bebop Beatniks Playing Low Earth Orbit

From The Archives Of Something Blue 2024-12-08

Thanks Marty. Today we're going to hear jazz, in space!

When I was writing for NJHB back in 2018 I wrote some titles based on physics, "Cold Fusion", "Quantum Blues", and "Entanglement", followed by some titles based on space flight, "Stratospheric", "Artificial Gravity", and "Low Earth Orbit".

"Low Earth Orbit" was the most accessible and the most fun to play and I have kept it in my repertoire ever since I wrote it, live streaming it through the pandemic and then playing it with Bebop Beatniks and Jazz Buskers.

The song is loosely based on "I've Got Rhythm" except even easier and played in a slow shuffle beat. I call it Honky Tonk jazz. Great for slow dancing.

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Big Bill Broonzy

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DJ Hairy Larry Presents Big Creek Band Playing Sing Me Back Home

From The Archives Of Something Blue 2021-12-01

Thanks Marty, today we're going to hear Big Creek Band play some real country music at Blues Fest.

I always say we play all kinds of music at Blues Fest because when you get right down to it, it's all blues.

Dennis Mathes was the bandleader of Big Creek Band with Sonny Ackerman on guitar and George Hinds on bass. They all played at Blues Fest every year and Dennis and Sonny were out at the park every week helping me build the bandshell.

Also playing on September 16, 2001, were David Pearce, vocals and guitar; Dave Pearson, vocals and guitar; and Mark Hill, drums.

The song we're playing today features Dave Pearson singing a Merle Haggard song. And it don't get more country than that.

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DJ Hairy Larry Presents Moore's Code Playing Every Day

Thanks Marty, today we're going to hear a jazz song written by a former ASU student.

Tim Moore would sit in with Jazz Alliance when he was in High School, driving in from Southern Missouri. Then he spent two years in the ASU Jazz Program while Ron Horton was the director of the Jazz Department. It was during that time that Tim and his brother Brandon wrote the songs for the Caprice album, "from dawn til dusk". We released that album on HairyLarryLand in 2013 and we still love it at KASU.

Of course, Tim didn't quit writing jazz songs after he left ASU. He went on to the outstanding jazz program at North Texas State where he honed his skills as a composer, a pianist, and a bandleader.

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K. C. Douglas

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Furry Lewis

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DJ Hairy Larry Presents NJHB Playing Circular Logic

Thanks Marty. Today we’re going to hear jazz from NJHB recorded at the very beginning.

I was planning on starting the New Jazz In Jonesboro concerts at TheArts@311 in 2013. It was Christmas break so I scheduled a session on December 29, 2012, with the founding members on NJHB.

I was rolling tape but I wasn’t really expecting to record an album. Turns out we played pretty good and we did. We recorded live in the studio, with just two mics recording the room, and we did it the NJHB way. We improvised the arrangements. We recorded four songs. I think I was the only musician there who had ever played them before. As I usually do with NJHB songs I made a radio mix for Arkansas Roots.

In our favor we had a room full of outstanding musicians.

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

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Jim Dickenson played piano on Sticky Fingers. He also helped produce the album.

The song was written by Mississippi Fred McDowell.

THE ROLLING STONES - You Gotta Move

Alb. "Sticky Fingers" (1971)

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West Memphis, Arkansas

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Delta Boogie Newsletter-Gamerplus News - November 2024 - Blues Fest Reprise - The Dragon's Egg - Embedding Mastodon Threads

Music

On September 29 we all showed up at the Craighead Forest Bandshell for Blues Fest and there was no electricity. Fortunately, I had my JBL Eon One Compact to use with Bebop Beatniks and it has batteries.

We ran the whole day one that amp. After Bebop Beatniks we heard The Spencer Brothers and Doug Butler. All the performances were great. I'm already playing some of the songs on Something Blue.

Gaming

I wrote a TTRPG called The Dragon's Egg.

At noon today I'm going to Library Game Day at the Jonesboro Public Library, which is hosted every month by NEA Gamers Guild. I'm going to play some RPGs and I may get to play test The Dragon's Egg.

I wrote a program called Embedding Mastodon Threads that makes it easy to embed a conversation on Mastodon in your blog or website. I had some help. I want to thank.

@jeff@soapbox.hackdefendr.com @conniptions@mastodon.social @EcksDy@techtoots.com @malin@dice.camp

These are their Mastodon addresses. They helped me, on Mastodon, to write an addon program for Mastodon. I write about the whole experience here.

More here.