Thanks Marty, today we’re featuring a song named after one of the seven wonders of the world.
And that would be “Colossus”, named after the Colossus of Rhodes, which is appropriate because on the NJHB album, “Colossus”, I’m playing a Fender Rhodes.
“Colossus” was first recorded on December 29, 2012, and released on the “Circular Logic” album. The album “Colossus” was our third album recorded on February 2, 2013.
Now I’m bringing back some of the NJHB songs from over 10 years ago and Bebop Beatniks played “Colossus” at KASU New Jazz In Jonesboro on May 24, 2025. The band included the incomparable Paul Lessard on alto sax. Every time I get to play with him it’s a treat.
Thanks Marty, today we’ll hear the premier recording of a new song I wrote recorded at KASU New Jazz In Jonesboro.
NJHB recorded their first album at HairyLarryLand on December 29, 2012. In 2013 we released 8 ½ albums counting “Bop Soup” as half an album. We were back in 2018 and 2019, recording an album at every show. After the pandemic we recorded an album outside of the Round Room on November 5, 2023, and then, last week, we recorded “The Hop Skip Jump”.
We are a different kind of jazz band featuring group improvisation. On November 30, 2019, when we recorded our “Checking For Traps” album, I said, “Then we’re gonna do like NJHB does, we’re gonna not just improvise the solos, we’re gonna improvise the arrangement, we’ll go outside, do whatever we want, have a good time.”
So to explain some of this I’m going to do an analysis of the excerpt of “The Hop Skip Jump” we’re about to hear. I will post a link to the whole album at sbblues.com.
Thanks Marty, today we’re featuring a song named after one of the seven wonders of the world.
And that would be “Colossus”, named after the Colossus of Rhodes, which is appropriate because on the NJHB album, “Colossus”, I’m playing a Fender Rhodes.
“Colossus” was first recorded on December 29, 2012, and released on the “Circular Logic” album. The album “Colossus” was our third album recorded on February 2, 2013.
Now I’m bringing back some of the NJHB songs from over 10 years ago and Bebop Beatniks played “Colossus” at KASU New Jazz In Jonesboro on May 24, 2025. The band included the incomparable Paul Lessard on alto sax. Every time I get to play with him it’s a treat.
