Witch Dance-Nowhere
Posted on 2025-06-29
DJ Hairy Larry Presents The Jelly Roll Kings Playing I Didn’t Know
From The Archives Of Something Blue – 2025-06-29
https://sbblues.com/2025/06/29/dj-hairy-larry-presents-the-jelly-roll-kings-playing-i-didnt-know/
Thanks Marty, today we’re going to hear the real blues played by some delta musicians.
I met Frank Frost, Sam Carr, and Jack Johnson when Vivian and I were enjoying blues festivals in the nineties. They played every year in Helena, Arkansas, and Clarksdale, Mississippi, and after a few years we became friends. Frank and Sam even came up to Jonesboro to play at Blues Fest and at the Delta Blues Symposium. They are, all three, genuine blues legends.
Frank was born in Auvergne, Arkansas. When I met him Frank lived in Helena in an apartment above Ettie Mae’s Cafe, my home away from home during the festival. I remember one time Vivian and I were visiting at the cafe before the festival started and Frank brought out the Jelly Roll Kings album. At first I wasn’t sure I could afford it but I decided I had to have it and I bought it from Frank. Ettie Mae looked at me and said, “I knew you were going to buy that”. Frank Frost fronted the real blues band in the black juke joint in the movie, “Crossroads”.
Sam Carr was born in Friar’s Point, Mississippi, but when I knew him he lived across the river from Helena in Lula. Vivian became close friends with Sam’s wife, Doris, who always saved a chair for her so they could talk during the festivals. Sam won the best blues drummer award in Living Blues magazine, year after year. After Frank passed in 1999 Sam continued playing at the King Biscuit Blues Festival with our friend, Dave Riley, fronting his band. Sam also played at the Levon Helm show in Helena in 2000. Doris passed in 2008. Sam passed in 2009.
“Big” Jack Johnson was born in Lambert, Missippi. He got a break in 1962 when he played with Frank and Sam at Clarksdale’s Savoy Theater. They recorded “Hey Boss Man!” at Sun Studios which was released on the Phillips label. According to the Mississippi Folklife Directory, “In 1978 Frank recorded the group, and the following year he started the Earwig label to issue the Jelly Roll Kings’ album, ‘Rockin’ the Juke Joint Down’.” I met Jack at the festival in Clarksdale, Mississippi, but I also heard him in Helena. Jack Johnson passed in 2011
So, I lift a glass to friends passed, all fine outstanding musicians. They may be gone but their music is forever.
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Gray The Flutesmith-solo 99 Idea
Posted on 2025-06-27
MixRemix Radio - Creative Commons Jazz - 2025-06-27
https://archive.org/details/ccj2025-06-27
MixRemix On Anonradio - From The Creative Commons Jazz Library - 2025-06-27
jazz.mixremix.cc
4:14
Gray the flutesmith-solo 99 idea
https://www.jamendo.com/album/497400/solo-99-idea
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32:34
[SCL145] Kai Engel - Paradigm Lost by Kai Engel
https://archive.org/details/SCL145
CC BY-NC-SA
41:12
Pharmacopia-One To Many
https://www.jamendo.com/album/462752/one-to-many
CC BY-NC-ND
43:46
Regis V Gronoff-Brazil Blues
https://www.jamendo.com/album/186376/brazil-blues
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24:29
José Travieso - Musica para una Guitarra sin Voz (ca397) by José Travieso
https://archive.org/details/ca397_jt
CC BY-NC-ND
49:56
Secret Babies-So Much So Young
https://www.jamendo.com/album/86058/so-much-so-young
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Posted on 2025-06-23
Bebop Beatniks
New Jazz In Jonesboro
May 24, 2025
Brookland United Methodist Youth Building
Brookland, Arkansas
Youtube
https://youtu.be/b0v1fR9BEeQ
Live Music Archive
https://archive.org/details/hl2025-06-24
Songs
00:01:30 1 White Rats And Meerkats
00:12:00 2 Gotta Lotta
00:22:58 3 Malaysia
00:35:16 4 Colossus
00:44:10 5 Ain't Misbehavin'
00:55:14 6 Autumn Leaves
01:06:57 7 Summertime
Songs 1-4 by Larry Heyl, CC-BY 4.0
Personnel
Bebop Beatniks
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Paul Lessard - Alto Sax
Matt Jackson - acoustic bass
Jeremy Jackson - electric bass
Alex Washam - drums
Hairy Larry - piano, vocals
With Jazz Buskers vocalists on 5-7
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Danielle Russell - vocals
Eliecer Tamex - trumpet, vocals
MC - Mike Doyle
Audio recording - Zoom H6
Audio production - Audacity and SAW Classic
Video cameras - Samsung Galaxy S-10
Video production - Openshot
New Jazz In Jonesboro is held monthly in the Brookland United Methodist Youth building in Brookland Arkansas.
bebopbeatniks.com
jazzbuckers.com
deltaboogie.net
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Posted on 2025-06-23
New Jazz In Jonesboro
Featuring
The Delta Blues Aces
Opening Act
United Gospel Trio
Saturday, June 28, at 7:00 PM
Brookland United Methodist Church Youth Building
301 W. Matthews
Brookland, Arkansas
Enjoy The Delta Blues Aces, Paul Nunis and Robert Rubenstein, this Saturday in Brookland. That's right, New Jazz In Jonesboro is in Brookland and we are featuring the sibling of jazz, blues.
The show is free and open to the public. The venue is family friendly so bring your family and friends to New Jazz In Jonesboro, this Saturday at 7:00.
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1625 Groove Street
Posted on 2025-06-22
DJ Hairy Larry Presents Paul Lessard Playing White Rats And Meerkats
https://sbblues.com/2025/06/22/dj-hairy-larry-presents-paul-lessard-playing-white-rats-and-meerkats/
Thanks Marty, today we’re going to hear a song I wrote this year and recorded at HairyLarryLand.
Paul Lessard is one of the finest jazz saxophonists I have ever worked with. When he joined the faculty at ASU I went to meet him to talk about music composition because, the truth is, there’s just not that many people into the nuts and bolts of music theory and composition. When I found out that he played jazz saxophone I knew I wanted to play with him.
He played with Bebop Beatniks on the KASU Arkansas Roots Stage at the Beatles At The Ridge Festival in 2024. Then he played with us again at Blues Fest and we recorded the album, “The Blue Crane”, on our second gig together.
Then this year, over Spring Break, my friend Chris Isom was coming to town and I set up a session with an amazing band and we recorded an album, “1625 Groove Street”. I wrote two of the songs on that album, the title track and “White Rats And Meerkats” which I have seleceted to play for you today.
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Bob Reynolds-Live In New York
Posted on 2025-06-20
MixRemix Radio - Creative Commons Jazz - 2025-06-20
https://archive.org/details/ccj2025-06-20
MixRemix On Anonradio - From The Creative Commons Jazz Library - 2025-06-20
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41:00
Bob Reynolds-Live in New York
https://bobreynolds.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-new-york
CC BY-NC-SA
16:27
Jazzrovers by Starrover
https://archive.org/details/Jazzrovers/01+-+Starrover+-+1.Ly+Bly+Blues.mp3
CC BY
49:31
Fancy Cocktails and Hot Sauce by The Underscore Orkestra
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Underscore_Orkestra/Fancy_Cocktails_and_Hot_Sauce/
CC BY-NC-SA
9:11
Rogue Ventriloquist Skills by Steve Lawson
https://music.stevelawson.net/track/rogue-ventriloquist-skills-2
CC BY-NC-SA
37:41
adam balusik: three trees
https://archive.org/details/adamb_three_trees
CC BY-NC
32:54
Tom La Meche-Blog
https://www.jamendo.com/album/1741/blog
CC BY-NC-SA
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The Funk Donors-Flatland
Posted on 2025-06-15
DJ Hairy Larry Presents The Funk Donors Singing Troubled
https://sbblues.com/2025/06/15/dj-hairy-larry-presents-the-funk-donors-singing-troubled/
Thanks Marty, today we’re going to bring the funk as played by a band that was popular here in Jonesboro before the pandemic.
Of course I’m talking about The Funk Donors. I never did get to hear them play live but I knew them by their reputation and I wanted to go see them since some of my friends were in the band. Fortunately they recorded a great album, “Flatland” and if you love live music like I do you can watch their videos on Youtube.
This all started when I went to see luvtrst. play at Stage Too. I was talking to Brian Nobles when he mentioned that he used to play in a band with Cody Ballard, the saxophonist in luvtrst. Well, my inquiring ears want to hear so I found out about the band and their album, “Flatland”.
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So what I try to do in shows like this is place local music in the context of what's happening globally with other musicians in the same general sphere.
Both to understand the value of what these local bands are doing and to show how they fit into the larger conversation.
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