NJHB's “Nichessa” now on CDBaby
Click here. Listen for free. Original compositions by Hairy Larry and Joseph Curtis.
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Nichessa on the Live Music Archive
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Bebop Beatniks In The Loft at The Edge
5:00 – 7:00 pm today, February 16. Jazz standards plus some original tunes composed by Hairy Larry. No cover. Come get your coffee buzz at The Edge Coffeehouse, 1900 Aggie Road, Jonesboro, AR.
Route 66 – Hairy Larry and George with Mike Lovell, Cheryl Culp, Suzanne Michell
New Jazz In Jonesboro – February 9, 2019 – Recap
A fantastic set of jazz standards by The Ken Carroll Trio with guest stars Chris Isom on drums and Joseph Curtis, trumpet, featured Ken Carroll's EWI work. The EWI or Electronic Wind Instrument is a synthesizer that is played like a horn and can sound like any instrument or go off in a world of it's own. The Ken Carroll Trio included Gabe Waters on bass and Hairy Larry, piano and vocals. Closing the set guest star Whitley Newman sang “Summertime”.
Set list. 1. Black Orpheus 2. Yesterday 3. Wave 4. How High The Moon 5. Recordame 6. Autumn Leaves 7. Summertime
Then NJHB played a burning set of jazz originals listed below and recorded the sixteenth NJHB album, “Nichessa”.
This was the first public performance of “Pixellation” and “Nichessa”. “Neo Soul Jam # 1” also appears on the NJHB album, “Blue Goose”.
https://archive.org/details/Njhb-BlueGoose
Playing with NJHB on February 2, 2019 were.
Joseph Curtis – trumpet Dean MacDonald – tenor sax Chase Hoots – alto sax Gabe Waters – bass Chris Isom – drums Jeremy Jackson – guitar Hairy Larry – piano, vocal percussion, vocals
I will include a link to the NJHB album when it is uploaded.
New Jazz In Jonesboro on Saturday, February 9 at 7:00 pm
Enjoy jazz music at a free concert in the Round Room at the Jonesboro Public Library. New Jazz In Jonesboro presents The Ken Carroll Trio and NJHB, the New Jazz House Band.
At 7:00 pm The Ken Carroll Trio will play jazz standards including latin, blues, and vocal numbers.
After a break NJHB will play all original songs. Guest musicians and composers are invited to participate.
Please use the outside entrance to the Round Room. The concert is free and open to the public. Coffee and cookies will be served.
Romain Pilon, Jeff Denson, Ronen Itzik
I met these fine jazz musicians at a workshop in the ASU bandroom today and I was very impressed with their musicianship, their compositions, and their spoken eloquence.
I am working on writing about their careers and their music at my blog, 21st Century Jazz Composers.
Here are their links.
Delta Legends on Arkansas Roots
A big shout out to Mike Doyle at KASU for playing Delta Legends on Arkansas Roots. He played “Baby What You Want Me To Do” and “Logan's Blues” recorded live on June 10, 2017, busking in front of Gearhead Cycle House on Main St. in Jonesboro.
https://archive.org/details/hl2017-06-10
Thanks to Mike Doyle and Arkansas Roots at KASU.
http://kasu.org http://deltalegends.com
Addendum – The Arkansas Brothers are closing the show now. I recorded them at Blue Monday in Paragould.
Cosmic Voyage
My friend Tomasino is hosting a Science Fiction writing project so, of course, I joined.
It is called Cosmic Voyage and it is the annals of the human diaspora into the galaxy told in text files. Here's the background.
Humanity has expanded to the stars. Earth is a distant memory. We journey into the darkness not in a great migration--as many thought--but in small communities, drifting far and traveling at relativistic speeds, dividing from each other by unfathomable distance and time. Our only connections are the thin tethers of the Quantum Entanglement Communicator (QEC). These precarious devices bridge the vast distances with near-instantaneous communication, but provide only enough bandwidth to the ancient relay hub for simple, plain-text messaging.
My ship is the Space Beagle and my protagonist, E. Grosvenor, is a Nexialist. (hat tip to A.E. VanVogt) I am not sure exactly what lies ahead but I am sure that bug eyed monsters and other dangerous aliens will be involved.
So fun!
There are many other ships communicating with the SOL System and each other using the Quantum Entanglement Communicator. So I have a lot to learn about mankinds greatest adventure, the journey to the stars, all in plaintext.
Here's the link. https://cosmic.voyage/
New Super Short – Seventeen Haikus
I just posted this over at SFF Short Stories.
https://sffshortstories.com/?x=entry:entry190120-122906
There's some depth in this super short. An optimistic view of the end of a dystopia.
Enjoy!
Three New Stories
As part of a writing challenge my goal is to write 10 new Super Shorts this January. So far I've done three, “Sweet Mary”, “Chaos In The Eye Of God”, and “Hegel, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein”. Here are the links.
Sweet Mary https://sffshortstories.com/?x=entry:entry190106-094005
Chaos In The Eye Of God https://sffshortstories.com/?x=entry:entry190109-101203
Hegel, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein https://sffshortstories.com/?x=entry:entry190110-110731
Please click on over and have a read. They are truly super short.