Posted on 2025-03-27
Jazz Improv
I love extended solos and I've been thinking about them a bit. A good jazz improv extended solo has a timeless quality in the sense that it exists outside of time.
At some point after the musician has played three or four choruses the audience realizes that it's always different and that the soloist could go on forever never playing the same thing. And then they forget that it ever started. And then they feel like it will go on forever.
And then, like all things, it ends.
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A Portrait Of Art-Album Cover
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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Dazie Mae-Last Jazz In Paris
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
CC BY-NC-SA
28:16
SONIC MYSTERY-HOPE REMAINS
https://www.jamendo.com/album/30556/hope-remains
CC BY-NC-ND
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
CC BY
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Posted on 2025-03-10
Delta Boogie Newsletter-Gamerplus News - March 2025 - Hairy Larry and Rhode Island Red - Game Events This Month - Libre Indie Archive
On February 11 Rhode Island Red came for a visit and we recorded four songs.
https://archive.org/details/hl2025-02-11/
I've been playing with Jim Chapin AKA Rhode Island Red at The Biscuit for years. He wrote this lyric.
We're Hairy Larry and Rhode Island Red
And we're gonna play, until we're dead.
We ain't dead yet. No no. We ain't dead yet.
I wrote about it on Hairy Larry Rocks.
https://hairylarry.rocks/permalink.php?fname=Hairy_Larry_And_Rhode_Island_Red_At_HairyLarryLand_2025-02-11.txt
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Everyone who plays RPGs knows that the ultimate RPG experience is a weekly campaign. I must be living right because I'm in a Thursday night game and a Sunday afternoon game. Both range in age from kids in school to me. I've got to tell you, that keeps you young.
Library Game Day this month is postponed to Saturday, March 22. It's from Noon until 4:00 at the Jonesboro Public Library. The next weekend is our Spring Break Family Weekend which means Family Game! I can't wait.
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I've been working on a hardware and software archival project for indie producers who have digital content they really don't want to lose. I call it Libre Indie Archive and I've been talking about it on my podcast at Hacker Public Radio.
What Is The Indie Archive?
https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr4312/index.html
Maintaining The Remote System
https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr4329/index.html
I posted this at gamerplus.org yesterday.
I now have all the functionality in place including File Integrity checks, email notification, and shell availability on the remote systems.
I am updating documentation and editing the scripts, regularizing them and fixing comments. I am writing install checklists for each system, primary, secondary, and remote.
My son is going to help me do a security audit.
I am planning on posting to Codeberg this month.
- Libre Indie Archive Update
https://gamerplus.org/deck/@hairylarry/114106383066762290
Follow this project on my Mastodon account, @hairylarry@gamerplus.org. If you're not on Mastodon yet you are invited to join us at DBN-Gamer+ where the focus is music, gaming, and free culture.
https://gamerplus.org.
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I have posted two new articles by Matt Chaney on Delta Boogie and I have started a blog for award winning blues reviewer Blewzzman.
A Whole Lot of Rockin' Preceded Elvis in The Delta
https://www.deltaboogie.com/A_Whole_Lot_of_Rockin_Preceded_Elvis_in_The_Delta/
Plainspoken Ernest Tubb Inspired Rockabillies and Bluesmen
https://deltaboogie.com/Plainspoken_Ernest_Tubb_Inspired_Rockabillies_and_Bluesmen/
Blewzzman Reviews - The Blues Is My Passion And Therapy
https://deltaboogie.com/blewzzman/
Please forward this email and share this link. If you have anything you would like to add to Delta Boogie let me know.
https://home.gamerplus.org/permalink.php?fname=Delta_Boogie_Newsletter-Gamerplus_News_-_March_2025.txt
Thanks,
@hairylarry@gamerplus.org - on Mastodon
https://gamerplus.org/@hairylarry - link to my profile
hairylarry@deltaboogie.com - send me an email
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Chris Isom And Josh Carter
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
music
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 2025-03-09
Hairy Larry And Rhode Island Red Live At HairyLarryLand - 2025-02-11
https://archive.org/details/hl2025-02-11
Rhode Island Red came to visit. We went to the library and played their ukelelee. We helped unload food at the food pantry. We ate food and had a nice visit.
And then we recorded videos of our original songs.
Ride Me to Heaven - by Larry Heyl
Granny's On Fire - by Jim Chapin
My Stick's Always Gettin' In The Way - by Larry Heyl
Mr. Right - by Jim Chapin
Well, that was fun.
Enjoy
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Posted on 2025-03-07
Why You should Join The Fediverse
There's no hidden algorithm. Most recent on top.
Follow people you like. Write posts about what interests you.
If you make something or do something we want to know. Clark Terry said you have to blow your own horn.
Use hash tags on your posts and follow hash tags that interest you.
Always include alt tags with you pictures. It makes everything work better.
Boosts spread the word. Just like this boost.
Have fun.
I wrote this on my Mastodon account at https://gamerplus.org
https://gamerplus.org/deck/@hairylarry/114124841886233314
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Art Porter Jr-Art Porter Music Education
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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