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Posted on 2025-03-22
Something Blue – Thought – March 22, 2025
https://sbblues.com/2025/03/22/something-blue-thought
This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring Art Porter, Keith Jarrett, and Bill Evans. For more about the show visit the Something Blue website at https://sbblues.com.
Don’t miss Something Blue, Saturday night at 10:00 PM Central, at https://kasu.org.
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Posted on 2025-03-14
MixRemix - Creative Commons Jazz - 2025-03-14
https://archive.org/details/ccj2025-03-14/008-Dazie_Mae_-_04_-_The_Goodbye_Song.mp3
MixRemix On Anonradio - From The Creative Commons Jazz Library - 2025-03-14
jazz.mixremix.cc
12:50
Last Jazz in Paris by Dazie Mae
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dazie_Mae/Last_Jazz_in_Paris/
CC BY-NC-SA
36:44
Fortadelis-The New Batch
https://www.jamendo.com/album/145175/the-new-batch
CC BY-NC-ND
28:54
Tom La Meche-Personnel
https://www.jamendo.com/album/786/personnel
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28:16
SONIC MYSTERY-HOPE REMAINS
https://www.jamendo.com/album/30556/hope-remains
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14:21
AxMei-Piano Su 01
https://www.jamendo.com/album/464494/piano-su-01
CC BY-NC-ND
29:17
Pierce Murphy-The Joke Isnt Funny But It Goes Like This
https://www.jamendo.com/album/475370/the-joke-isnt-funny-but-it-goes-like-this
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Posted on 2025-03-09
DJ Hairy Larry Presents Common Time Playing Autumn Leaves
From the Archives Of Something Blue 2025-03-09
https://sbblues.com/2025/03/09/dj-hairy-larry-presents-common-time-playing-autumn-leaves/
Thanks Marty, today we're going to hear ASU students play my favorite song.
Common Time was a working jazz combo, playing every week. I was in school with them and they all helped me, playing at my composition recitals. Of course I invited them to play at the bandshell.
Playing in Common Time On June 3, 2017 were
Josh Carter - sax
Alex Ditto - guitar
Spencer Rawlins - bass
and
Chris Isom - drums
Although they were still in college in 2017, these are all top rank musicians, still playing today.
I can't tell you what a joy it is to hear young musicians deliver the goods playing jazz standards. But I'll try. Their set was tight with exciting solos and ensemble work. And they were playing some of my favorite songs. There's something about live jazz that gets the message across. The audience loved them.
So now, recorded on June 3, 2017, at the Craighead Forest Bandshell here's Common Time playing "Autumn Leaves".
DJ Hairy Larry Presents Common Time Playing Autumn Leaves
From the Archives Of Something Blue 2025-03-09
https://sbblues.com/2025/03/09/dj-hairy-larry-presents-common-time-playing-autumn-leaves/
Something Blue Archives Featured Concert
Common Time Quartet Live at Craighead Forest Bandshell on 2017-06-03
https://archive.org/details/ct2017-06-03
Something Blue Archives - List Of Concerts
https://archive.org/details/somethingbluearchives?sort=-publicdate
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And that's Common Time playing "Autumn Leaves" at the Craighead Forest Bandshell. Don't miss Something Blue, Saturday night at 10:00 to hear more Common Time, Nigel Harpur, and Charlie Hunter.
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Posted on 2025-03-02
DJ Hairy Larry Presents Art Porter Playing Lay Your Hands On Me
From The Archives Of Something Blue March 2, 2025
https://sbblues.com/2025/03/02/dj-hairy-larry-presents-art-porter-playing-lay-your-hands-on-me/
Thanks Marty, today we're going to listen to Arthur Lee Porter Jr.
Born in 1961 he started playing drums in his father's band, The Art Porter Trio, at the age of nine. When he was a teenager he picked up the saxophone. He went to school at the Parkview Arts and Science Magnet High School in Little Rock.
This is where it gets interesting. He was barred from playing in clubs because he was under 21. He was arrested and charged with working under-age in a nightclub serving alcoholic beverages.
Bill Clinton was Arkansas Attorney General at the time and he got the charges against Art Porter dropped. Later Clinton got the law changed to allow under-age musicians to appear in adult facilities as long as their legal guardians accompanied them. This law became known as "The Art Porter Bill".
In the eighties Porter moved to Chicago where he played with Jack McDuff and another Arkansas saxophonist, Pharoah Sanders, who also played with Art Porter in Little Rock. Pharoah Sanders, Art Porter Jr. and Art Porter Sr. are all recognized in the Arkansas Jazz Hall Of Fame.
Porter and his father performed for President Clinton during his 1993 inauguration, playing Amazing Grace at a prayer breakfast.
In 1996 Porter died in a boating accident after playing at the Thailand International Jazz Festival. He was only 35 years old when we all suffered this great loss to jazz music.
Go to the Something Blue website at https://sbblues.com for links to more about Art Porter and his music.
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