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From The Archive August 15, 2021 – Azul and Midori – “Song For My Father”

http://sbblues.com/2021/08/16/from-the-archive-august-15-2021-azul-and-midori-song-for-my-father/

Thanks Marty, on this weeks From The Archives Of Something Blue I’ve got a jazz standard recorded right here on the ASU campus.

ASU jazz students are the best. They play at my recitals and help me with my original compositions. So, I try to return the favor when I can and when Azul and Midori asked if I could record them in the Fine Arts Recital Hall I was pleased to help.

This wasn’t a recital. They just reserved an unscheduled time slot and took advantage of the hall’s acoustics. Playing at the session were Kevin Tinker, trumpet; Alex Ditto, guitar; Spencer Rawlins, bass; and Chris Issom, drums. I’ve enjoyed playing music with all of these musicians in ASU small groups and side projects. In fact, Kevin Tinker played in my band, Bebop Beatniks, for years and we still get to play with him sometimes.

So we all showed up. They played. I recorded. The rest is history.

Now here’s Azul and Midori playing a Horace Silver standard, “Song For My Father”, recorded right here at ASU on December 2, 2016.

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And that’s Azul and Midori playing “Song For My Father” recorded December 2, 2016, in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. Don’t miss Something Blue Saturday night at 10:00 to hear more Azul and Midori, Ahmad Jamal, and Barry Harris.

Gamer+ News August 16, 2021 from hairylarry's blog

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Tonight on Inspired Unreality Ari and Caper continue their work on Caper's Songbook. We have the opening verses for Caper's song of reckless spending called “Wee Will”. Here we go.

Wee Will

Wee Will was born with nary a coin and his parents had naught neither His Ma said Will is gonna be rich but no one would believe her.

But then one day Around mid may Will tripped and skint his knee. And what did he see buried under the tree? 'twas the shiny glint of gold.

Gold, gold, gold, gold, gold, gold, gold, gold, Gold, gold, gold, gold, gold, gold, gold, gold.

Wee Will brought the coin to his Ma at home and they were rich as kings with stars in his eyes he looked to the skies and dreamt of his favorite things.

His ma went to town and the wheel goes round she paid her bill and then she loaded up on groceries like she had no worries and was left with just a penny.

Gold, gold, gold, gold, gold, gold, gold, gold, Gold, gold, gold, gold, gold, gold, gold, gold.

Of course we need more tales of Wee Will getting alternately rich and poor.

So drop by tonight And help us write The song of reckless spending.

Inspired Unreality is held in the gamerplus chatrooms at Tenkar's Tavern on Discord. For more info go here.

Something Blue – Things – August 14, 2021

http://sbblues.com/2021/08/14/things/

This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring Jon Langford, Todd Sheaffer, Althea Grace, and The Way Down Wanderers. 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.

Todd Sheaffer Live at The Walpack Inn, Layton, NJ on 2021-08-01 https://archive.org/details/tsheaffer2021-08-01

Jon Langford Live at private backyard, New York City on 2021-08-01 https://archive.org/details/jlangford2021-08-01.flac24

Althea Grace Live at The Landing on 2021-07-30 https://archive.org/details/ag2021-07-30.nak.flac16

The Way Down Wanderers Live at The Landing on 2021-07-30 https://archive.org/details/wdw2021-07-30.nak.flac16

Caper The Giant Killer

In our 5e family game on Friday Caper the Giant Killer slew another Giant Beast or I should say Caper set the trap and the party beat the daylights out of him and his troll minion. It only cost Caper 5 gold to get a plaque hung in the inn with the giant's sword saying This Giant was killed by Caper the Giant Killer and Company. Caper is a halfling Bard and in the music business it's all hype.

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The Harmonic Tritone Scale

New nomenclature for what I used to call the Bebop Harmonic Scale. Harmonic Tritone is better because it completely describes the scale, a harmonic scale with the tritone added. You can use this over the entire ii V7b9 i progression or over just the ii V7b9.

I use it in Candles.

https://peertube.hairylarry.rocks/videos/watch/22d1d8bd-53b2-4f1a-8d90-cd657275bff7

The interesting thing about this scale is the 4 note chromatic run, 4, tritone, 5, b6. Pick and choose or play the whole run.

twitch.tv/hairylarryland August 12, 2021, chill piano jazz from HairyLarryLand

https://youtu.be/mViaL_XB0KI

Blue Goose by Larry Heyl

Hairy Larry's twitch stream is at

https://www.twitch.tv/hairylarryland

This version of “Blue Goose” was excerpted from the stream recorded on August 12, 2021. Hairy Larry's current schedule is Tuesday and Thursday at 3:00 PM and Sunday at 10:00 AM Central.

Playlist link

https://peertube.hairylarry.rocks/my-account/video-playlists/988ee865-850e-48d4-8ef2-ae9290b90585

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Blue Goose Hairy Larry

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Blue Goose By Larry Heyl twitch.tv/hairylarryland hairylarryland.com

Click here for “Blue Goose”

https://peertube.hairylarry.rocks/videos/watch/28669c0c-6811-4007-be6a-233a03aeec9c

Collaborate with Hairy Larry. Play along and record. Click this nextcloud link to download.

https://hairylarryland.com/nextcloud/index.php/s/Z9RFW4QS6XGa3qo

All of Larry's compositions are licensed Creative Commons Attribution, CC BY.

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twitch.tv/hairylarryland August 10, 2021, chill piano jazz from HairyLarryLand

https://peertube.hairylarry.rocks/videos/watch/playlist/f6eab77d-ddf1-4890-a448-aa31079fd140

Five songs excerpted from Hairy Larry's twitch stream performed August 10, 2021.

twitch.tv/hairylarryland August 8, 2021, chill piano jazz from HairyLarryLand

https://peertube.hairylarry.rocks/my-account/video-playlists/76474bc3-677d-4ed1-8f5f-64715cd197b9

Ten songs excerpted from Hairy Larry's twitch stream performed August 8, 2021.

Gamer+ News August 9, 2021 from hairylarry's blog

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Welcome to Inspired Unreality open game chat, tonight at 9:00 PM Central in the gamerplus chatrooms at Tenkar's Tavern on Discord. If you've never been to Tenkar's Tavern there's a link for you here.

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First on the agenda tonight will be working on Caper's song of reckless spending, a favorite of proprietors in gambling houses everywhere Caper goes. So far I've got something about the wheel goes round but we're going to hammer it out tonight and I need your help.

Last week Alan joined us and we talked a bit about SF and Fantasy books and a bit about writing, discussing our current projects. Alan is working on his Ember module called “Mine”. I have run it once at ARRPGCon and once online and it was fun both times.

https://gamerplus.org/user/Alan

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From The Archive August 8, 2021 – John Spencer – “Dusty Old Arkansas Home”

http://sbblues.com/2021/08/08/from-the-archive-august-8-2021-john-spencer-dusty-old-arkansas-home/

Thanks Marty, on this weeks From The Archives Of Something Blue I’ve got a bluegrass band that turns out to be just one person.

I met John Spencer at Blues Fest and soon John and Tommy, The Spencer Brothers, were regular performers featuring Tommy singing old time country music mixed with some of John’s originals. They also played at several KASU events and were regulars in the audience at all of the KASU live music concerts.

One day John told me that he and Tom Turner had written some songs and he would like to record them at my studio. John was raised outside of Paragould and Tom Turner was raised down the road from me at Burnt Hill.

Click link above for audio and more.

We started work recording and soon fell into a weekly schedule with John recording a song or two every session. Sometimes we had guest musicians and sometimes it was just me and John. The songs included protest music, folk songs, sea shanties, and calypso.

We still had a bluegrass number left to record. The bluegrass was a little bit different than what we had been doing because John played all the instruments, upright bass, guitar, banjo, and mandolin, as well as singing. In the end we had a song that sounded like it was recorded by a tight bluegrass band. You would never know by listening that it was the product of multiple overdubs.

And that’s the story behind “Dusty Old Arkansas Home”, written by John Spencer and Tom Turner and recorded at HairyLarryLand in 2011 with John Spencer singing and playing all the instruments.