My Ridiculous Festival SchedulePosted on 2026-09-23
I'm back in school. I had Alex Upton for Jazz Improv last term and Logan Smoot this term. I think the Lab Band Is playing Helena West Helena on their second concert.
I put on five acts at the KASU Arkansas Roots Stage last Saturday at the Beatles at the Ridge Festival in Walnut Ridge.
Jazz Buskers with Eliecer Tamez on trumpet and Neale Bartee trombone. Ryan Hartness is also playing trumpet. He was in the Copyright Infringement band at Delta Jazz Workshop and graduated as a vocals major. They are all singing giving us five vocalists total with most of them writing their own harmonies.
So, an octet with 5 horns and 5 vocalists. Also everyone except the bass plays hand percussion. No drums. It's an ambitious project.
Our set
Eliecer improvises a solo with muted trumpet (a nod to Miles). Then we all sing Summertime and after a horn feature and solos Eliecer sings it out in his own amazing way.
Ryan Hartness sings Nature Boy just like Nat King Cole. Eliecer solos.
Neale sings Fly Me To The Moon and everyone says Frank. He scats a chorus. Then a horn feature and soloists including Preston Morgan on tenor. Preston is a senior at Valley View and is one of our star soloists playing fills behind the vocals on all of our swing numbers.
Danielle Russell sings There Will Never Be Another You, again with a horn feature I wrote and solos. I also wrote the intro and the outtro which I play on piano.
I sing After You've Gone with a trumpet/alto duet before the solos and a shout chorus. Ryan Wright plays alto. He reads really well and swings but he doesn't improvise (yet) so I wro
te his solos (and the duet).
We close with Danielle singing my song, Freddy's Blues, which is a little piece of musical theater. We have an optional extended ending with round the block solos and a vocal re-ending. We didn't play the optional ending.
The idea is to be able to sound like a big band and like Manhatten Transfer, in our own way. All done with an octet.
I have prescient ears and I can already hear how we'll sound in a year.
We are Jazz Buskers and we can do this on battery power in the middle of a field.
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Jay Shepherd and Shane Chastain played as Silver Wings. Quality entertainment with dinner jackets. Jay is teaching at ASU again and about to finish his doctorate in guitar performance at Memphis.
My blues band, Delta Legends, burned it up, closing with Voodoo Child and All Along The Watchtower. Danielle sang Watchtower with me and then I did a harmonica solo with feedback. I wore Michael Doyle's hat for the Dylan song. Delta Legends is a vehicle to showcase John Shepherd's guitar work.
The Spencer Brothers sang old Johnny Cash songs. John Spencer is almost as old as I am.
And then my new band, #jazz #blues #fusion, closed the show with Jarrett Robinette sitting in on drums. James Carvell and I are the songwriters in the band and we do all originals. My son, Uldis, is playing bass in the band.
My daughters, Sarah and Gretchen, were both at the show.
I recorded all of this and I got video on almost all of it.
Saturday and Sunday is Blues Fest at the Craighead Forest Bandshell. Then The Biscuit (11 gigs in 4 days), The Levon Helm downhome Jamboree (dance party to tunes by The Band), The Renaissance Fair (helping with The Friends Of The Library Booth), and our Halloween Party (you're invited).
Something Blue–LouisePosted on 2026-09-12
Something Blue – Louise – May 18, 2024 – September 12, 2026
https://sbblues.com/2026/09/12/louise-2/
This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring Striding The Blast, Stackabones, and Yarn. 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.
Stackabones Live at 118 North (Wayne, PA) on 2024-05-05
archive.org/details/stackabones2024-05-05/
stackabones.bandcamp.com/
Yarn Live at 118 North (Wayne, PA) on 2024-05-05
archive.org/details/yarn2024-05-05/
yarnmusic.net/
Striding The Blast Live at In The Loft at The Edge Coffeehouse on 2017-01-28
archive.org/details/stb2017-01-28/
KASU Arkansas Roots Stage 2026Posted on 2026-09-12
Beatles at the Ridge Festival in Walnut Ridge, Arkansas
KASU Arkansas Roots Stage
Saturday, September 19, at Beatles Park on Abbey Road
2:00 - Jazz Buskers
3:00 - Silver Wings
4:00 - Delta Legends
5:00 - The Spencer Brothers
6:00 - #jazz #blues #fusion
Jazz Buskers
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Jazz Buskers play jazz standards with horns and harmony vocals. If you love songs like Summertime, Ain't Misbehavin, Nature Boy, and Fly Me To The Moon don't miss Jazz Buskers at 2:00.
Silver Wings
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Silver Wings features Shane Chastain on piano and Jay Shepherd on guitar with both of them singing all of your favorite songs. These excellent musicians always deliver.
Delta Legends
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Delta Legends plays both kinds of blues, Delta Blues and Chicago Blues. Featuring Mr. John B. Shepherd on guitar and Hairy Larry, harmonica and vocals. Delta Legends has played at Blues Fest and at the King Biscuit Blues Festival.
The Spencer Brothers
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The Spencer Brothers are an acoustic duo featuring Tommy Spencer singing real country music and John Spencer playing originals and standards. Don't miss The Spencer Brothers at 5:00 pm. They always steal the show.
#jazz #blues #fusion
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#jazz #blues #fusion (pronounced jazz blues fusion) play jazz fusion with an extra dose of the blues. If you like electric bands with horns don't miss #jazz #blues #fusion closing the Arkansas Roots Stage from 6:00 to 6:50pm.
For more information about the Beatles at the Ridge Festival and for the main stage lineup go here.
https://beatlesattheridge.com/
Blues Fest 2026 SchedulePosted on 2026-09-09
Blues Fest 2026
Craighead Forest Bandshell
Jonesboro, Arkansas
Sunday September 20
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2:00 The Infinite Calling
3:00 Jazz Buskers
4:00 ContingenC
5:00 The Bluescaster
Sunday September 27
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2:00 Hairy Larry And The Flying Hungarians
3:00 #jazz #blues #fusion
4:00 The Spencer Brothers
5:00 Delta Legends
Blues Fest is Free!
Bring family and friends.
Picnics permitted.
Bring lawn chairs and blankets for your comfort.
MixRemix Radio Creative Commons Jazz 2026 09 11Posted on 2026-09-11
MixRemix Radio - Creative Commons Jazz - 2026-09-11
https://archive.org/details/ccj2026-09-11
MixRemix On Anonradio - From The Creative Commons Jazz Library - 2026-09-11
jazz.mixremix.cc
46:51
Vélos - Boom Boom Beckett
https://www.jamendo.com/album/4234/velos
CC BY-NC
47:52
Thomas Saliba-Archeophonix Abelec
https://www.jamendo.com/album/488339/archeophonix-abelec
CC By-NC-ND
43:31
Regis V. Gronoff-Blue Beats
https://www.jamendo.com/album/101890/blue-beats
CC BY-NC-SA
38:23
Jean-pierre.saussac-Ballade hivernale
https://www.jamendo.com/album/503181/ballade-hivernale
CC BY-NC-ND
9:11
Rogue Ventriloquist Skills by Steve Lawson
https://music.stevelawson.net/track/rogue-ventriloquist-skills-2
CC BY-NC-SA
40:02
Way more out - Viktor Séthy
https://www.jamendo.com/album/133096/way-more-out
CC BY-NC-SA
Creative Commons Jazz 2026 09 04Posted on 2026-09-04
MixRemix On Anonradio - From The Creative Commons Jazz Library - 2026-09-04
jazz.mixremix.cc
1:08:09
Namouche - Special Quartet
https://www.jamendo.com/album/41851/namouche
CC BY-NC-ND
36:38
The Next Age of Adventure (Part 2 of 2) - Bruce H. McCosar
https://www.jamendo.com/album/65552/the-next-age-of-adventure-part-2-of-2
CC BY-SA
28:16
SONIC MYSTERY-HOPE REMAINS
https://www.jamendo.com/album/30556/hope-remains
CC BY-NC-ND
1:00:07
Jazz Friends-Summer Jazz 2011
https://www.jamendo.com/album/94812/summer-jazz-2011
CC BY-NC-SA
47:22
nadi-ballades en balade
https://www.jamendo.com/album/90132/ballades-en-balade
CC BY-NC-SA
37:02
Kogani - Suerte
https://www.jamendo.com/album/5285/kogani
CC BY-NC-SA
Something Blue Stern August 29 2026Posted on 2026-08-29
Something Blue - Stern - August 29, 2026
https://sbblues.com/2026/08/29/stern/
Mike Stern - Big Neighborhood
https://mikesternguitar.bandcamp.com/album/big-neighborhood
#jazz #blues #fusion - KASU Fundraiser
https://archive.org/details/jbf-kasu-fundraiser
Allan Holdsworth - Flat Tire
https://allanholdsworth.info/ahwiki/index.php/Main_Page
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDqhJZkS1WM
Andy Edwards - Bitches Brew Band
https://andyedwards.bandcamp.com/album/the-miles-davis-bitches-brew-album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m52-CQs7-iU
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Mike Stern - Song For Pepper
Welcome to Something Blue. I'm Hairy Larry and I've got the blues, for you.
Mike Stern - Long Time Gone
All right now, that's two songs from the Mike Stern album "Big Neighborhood". We heard "Song For Pepper" featuring Esperanza Spalding on bass and vocals and "Long Time Gone" with Eric Johnson joining Mike Stern on guitar.
Something Blue is broadcast on KASU, Saturday nights at 10:00 Central on 91.9 FM and streaming at kasu.org.
I'm Hairy Larry, host of Something Blue. Visit the Something Blue website at sbblues.com to listen anytime and for links to more music by the featured musicians.
Ok now, from his album "Flat Tire" here's Allan Holdsworth playing "House of Mirrors" and "Low Levels, High Stakes".
Allan Holdsworth - House of Mirrors
Allan Holdsworth - Low Levels, High Stakes
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#jazz #blues #fusion - The Blue Crane
All right now, recorded for Something Blue at a KASU fundraiser in the Rec Room on March 20, 2026, that's #jazz #blues #fusion playing a song I wrote, "The Blue Crane".
Something Blue is broadcast on KASU, Saturday nights at 10:00 Central on 91.9 FM and streaming at kasu.org.
I'm Hairy Larry, host of Something Blue. Thanks to Bandcamp and The Live Music Archive for hosting some of the music we're hearing tonight.
Ok Now, recorded in Andy Edwards Studio and released on August 3, 2026, here's The Bitches Brew Band playing "The Garden Of Eden". This contemporary jazz fusion is an album on Bandcamp and a video on Youtube. Go to sbblues.com for links.
The Bitches Brew Band - Garden of Eden
