The Barstool Benny Quartet

#RESILIENCE
The word that keeps showing up when you least expect it. It's working in 25-minute intervals because that's what your spine allows, still crafting when most would've called it. Resilience isn't pretty— but it beats giving up.

Barstool Benny Jazz Quartet_Caravan EP 1999 - The Barstool Benny Quartet's Ko-fi Shop The Caravan EP delivers six instrumental gypsy jazz compositions performed by the Barstool Benny Quartet. Recorded with Hammond B3 organ, Selmer aco...

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Merry Christmas, everybody. Peace and love from the other side of the pond.

Christmas Eve always had that strange quality to it. The world slowed down just enough to hear yourself think, which can be good or rough depending on what's rattling around in there. But there's something about it that makes things feel possible, even when the year's been kicking your ass.

Whatever dive you're holding down tonight—have yourselves a weekend. Play something that matters. Drink something decent if you can afford it. Sleep in if the world lets you.

#LostJazzTapes #BoyleHeightsBop #BarstoolBenny

Death teaches you who people really are. Some honor the memory. Others just see an estate sale with a funeral program.
#grief #family #truth

Jazz doesn't lie. Can't fake the feeling, can't manufacture the soul. Either you lived enough to mean something, or you're just playing scales in expensive clothes.
#jazz #authenticity #music

Some gigs live forever on paper even when clubs become coffee shops. ko-fi.com/barstoolbenn...
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#foundposters #vintagemusic #divebars #jazzhistory #musicarchaeology #analogmemories #livemusic #jazzscene #musicposters #vintagedesign

Found old gig posters in storage - proof good music happened when nobody kept records.

#foundposters #vintagemusic #divebars #jazzhistory #musicarchaeology #analogmemories #livemusic #jazzscene #musicposters #vintagedesign

Every track comes with twenty years of dust and one good story. ko-fi.com/barstoolbenn...

#latenightjazz #hammondb3 #instrumentalmusic #barroomblues #souljazz #midnightmelodies #jazzvibes #bluesynights #smokyroomsounds

Visit The Barstool Benny Quartet's Shop! 🎹 Grab these Hammond-soaked late-night standards at ko-fi.com/barstoolbennys - where every purchase keeps Barstool Benny's Leslie spinning. 🥃

Jazz from people who lived it, not studied it.
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The music industry forgot us. We forgot them back. ko-fi.com/barstoolbennys

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New from the Barstool Benny Tapes
Rolling Highballs – Alt Take 3
Cut in ’82. Thought lost. No overdubs, no polish. Just Benny in the pocket and rent due Monday.
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#LostJazzTapes #BoyleHeightsBop #BarstoolBenny

Visit Barstool Benny's Shop! 🎹 Grab these Hammond-soaked late-night standards at ko-fi.com/barstoolbennys - where every purchase keeps Barstool Benny's Leslie spinning. 🥃

New from the Barstool Benny Tapes
Rolling Highballs – Alt Take 3
Cut in ’82. Thought lost. No overdubs, no polish. Just Benny in the pocket and rent due Monday.

🎧 Preview on SoundCloud
💿 Download on Ko-fi – $2.49
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#LostJazzTapes #BoyleHeightsBop #BarstoolBenny

Me and Lou are working on some serious alley-catting tunes for the times. Strictly on the jazz tip, and for those in the know. Stay tuned.

#barflyphilosophy #divebardiscoveries #divebarjazz #lostrecordings #jazzlegend #jazztrio #grittyjazz #lastcall #urbanwisdom #handsonthekeys #soulmusic

Barstool Benny - Jazz & Booze Music for midnight philosophers and 3AM saints. Slide a few bucks into the tip jar and take home some organ grooves that'll make your speakers sweat- cheaper than therapy, lasts longer than whiskey.

For the streaming types who ain't got scratch for vinyl, catch the Trio at soundcloud.com/barstoolbenn.... We only drink on days ending in 'y'.

#barflyphilosophy #divebardiscoveries #divebarjazz #lostrecordings #jazzlegend #jazztrio #grittyjazz #lastcall #urbanwisdom #handsonthekeys #soulmusic

#redondobeach #barstoolphilosophy #bennyjazztrio #organtrio #hammondb3 #divebarjazz #midnightconfessions #whiskeywisdom #lastcallblues #latenightphilosophy

Visit Barstool Benny's Shop! 🎹 Grab these Hammond-soaked late-night standards at ko-fi.com/barstoolbennys - where every purchase keeps Barstool Benny's Leslie spinning. 🥃

New tracks dropped at the shop. Each one recorded in rooms where the acoustics improved every time someone's heart broke.
Perfect soundtrack for driving nowhere at 2 AM, or sitting in your kitchen wondering where all the good years went.
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#barstoolphilosophy

City finally drops the act after midnight. Daytime's all pressed shirts and everybody pretending they've got their shit together. Darkness is Truth.

Anway, after midnight, we're all just hustling toward sunrise, hoping to keep whatever dignity we had when the lights went down.

The Hammond's been coughing like a chain smoker at dawn, but we made it through another set where nobody asked for "Sweet Caroline." Small victories taste better than good whiskey.

#JazzOrgan #Jazz #JazzMusic #HammondB3 #Organ #JazzGuitar #OrganTrio #BarstoolBenny #NightflyWisdom

9 PM watch - day shift crawling home, night shift crawling out. Kid practicing tricks under busted streetlight, still believes concrete won't bite. B3 waits inside, patient as confession.
🥃 #BarstoolBenny

I see the bottom of the barrel is hard at work again.

The Hammond and I have seen enough young dreamers come and go in my line of work to fill a graveyard of good intentions. But hell, without them, who'd remind us old-timers what we used to sound like before the world taught us better?

#topshelfphilosophy #barstoolbennytrio

Had a gig like that at The Rusty Nail back in '92. Bartender kept pouring me sympathy shots- the only currency I was earning that night. By set three, I was having a full conversation with my many reflections in the cracked mirror behind the bar. Sonofabitches had better comebacks than I did.

Hey misfits- Ol' Benny's got your crooked barstool ready. We welcome square pegs, midnight refugees & edge-landing coins. No questions asked 'bout your mismatched shadow. Just a warm Hammond, a stiff drink & dim lights too merciful to judge. Just don't forget about the music.

#divebarjazz #nightfly

Gymnogene, you beautiful rare bird. Taking a chance on some nobody pounding a Hammond with more past than future? That's a spiritual act of mercy, friend. Stick with me, kid. We're all just falling down the same staircase- plus, Lou's releasing more recordings!

New single on Soundcloud: 'Yesterdays'. It's what happens when the lights come on and reality sets in. soundcloud.com/barstoolbenn...

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"Mama Lou's Medicine" by The Barstool Benny Trio.
Recorded live at Mama Lou's Orchid Lounge in one whiskey-soaked night in 1992.

#organfunk #jazztrio #divebarjazz #lostrecordings #pressonvinyl #jazzlovers #vintagehammond #jazzisnotdead #undergroundjazz #bennytrio #nightclubvibes #lajazz #b3organ

"Benny's Blues", by The Barstool Benny Trio.

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Keep pourin' that sweat and poundin' that Hammond!

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