Bluesman Ed Alstrom, fresh off his 23rd season as weekend organist at New York City’s Yankee Stadium, makes his Vic’s Jazz Loft debut Saturday at the Stabin Museum, West Broadway, Jim Thorpe.

“It will be a lot of songs I’ve played for a good part of my career, as well as some newer compositions,” said the musician, who released his fifth album “This Idea of Humanity” in February.

Alstrom produced and recorded his latest album, issued on his Haywire label, in his Montville, New Jersey, basement. The blues-jazz album includes guests Ula Hedwig, formerly of Bette Midler’s Harlettes, friends Jimmy Vivino and Don Guinta, and Alstrom’s wife, Maxine.

“This Idea of Humanity” includes tracks such as the Ray Charles-inspired “Put You First,” as well as “Humans,” “Bridesmaid,” “Party Planner,” “Blues Keep Coming Back” and “Inquiring Minds.”

Alstrom played most of the instruments on the album, as he did with 2025’s “Flee Though None Pursue,” his blues debut.

“Flee Though None Pursue,” Alstrom said, “was a byproduct of me entering the 2024 International Blues Challenge, which I did as a lark. I wound up having to write originals to be in that competition.”

The latest album marks Alstrom’s first since 2010’s “Gettin’ Organ-ized,” with his first two sets, “The Record People Are Coming” and “Acid Cabaret,” arriving in 1996 and 2003.

Alstrom, a resident of Montville, New Jersey, grew up in Ridgewood. The multi-instrumentalist started playing the family Hammond M-3 at age 5 “because my dad played, and I had an early interest and showed some ability.” He acquired a piano at home at age 12.

Musical favorites and influences included Thelonious Monk, J.S. Bach, Herbie Nichols, Otis Spann, Elmore James, James Brown, The Meters, The Allman Brothers Band and César Franck.

Alstrom, who started playing guitar and bass as a teen, performed in rock bands through high school. The main band, which performed very few covers, brought Alstrom more into jazz music.

The performer, who earned a Bachelor of Music degree in organ performance from New Jersey’s Westminster Choir College, studied church organ and dabbled in other types of music.

Over the years, Alstrom has played at Northern New Jersey churches, performed on theater organs and taught music at various schools. He also has played with a who’s who of performers, including Darlene Love, Odetta, Ronnie Spector, Steven Van Zandt, Ben E. King and Chubby Checker.

“I’ve been blessed to cross paths with people who led me into many of those situations, notably Jimmy and Jerry Vivino, whom I met right after high school and worked closely with for years, and still do.”

Alstrom, during a worldwide dealer party gig, accompanied the “Rockit” musician on bass and drums on an array of samplers. Playing with someone on Hancock’s level “was a thrill. I also met Stanley Jordan and Larry Coryell then, and did similar gigs with them.”

Among other notables, “Bette Midler was a really nice person, as well as being Bette Midler. Chuck Berry, on the other hand ... I’m not the only musician that had a disillusioning experience with him.”

Other experiences include playing with Donald Fagen’s revue, at which time, Alstrom said, “Walter Becker, whom he hadn’t seen in a long time, was in the audience and came up to sit in. I was suddenly playing Steely Dan songs with Steely Dan.”

Alstrom also enjoyed Broadway and off-Broadway stints, including a gig as a primary keyboard substitute on “Hairspray.” He probably played the show, he said, more than 700 times.

In 2004, Alstrom realized a childhood dream: playing organ at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx. The organist, who attended his first Yankee game at age 9, filled the seat at the Hammond Colonnade, now an Elegante, which Eddie Layton had occupied before retiring after a 37-year stint.

“My wife, a terrific piano player, made the audition happen with one random phone call to Yankee Stadium,” the entertainer said. “I was shocked there was an opening since it was less than a month before the season started. The audition was about two minutes. I was too juiced up to be nervous.”

A typical game, Alstrom said, has some known quantities: “Happy Birthday” in the sixth inning, “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” in the seventh and bumpers to get players off the field at the end of an inning.

“Beyond that, at times I never know when I’m gonna play. I have to be paying close attention 100% of the time. I am directed. I am rarely told what to play, although I am told when to play most of the time.”

Aside from his Yankee Stadium gig, Alstrom rattled off career highlights such as singing in the Westminster Choir under Leonard Bernstein at Avery Fisher Hall in New York City, playing with so many “name” people, releasing his blues albums, and enjoying great airplay and reviews.

Alstrom, retiring as music director/organist at Central Presbyterian Church of Montclair in 2025 after nine years, plans to “do what I feel like doing whenever I feel like it. Every retired person I talk to is trying to do that. I’ll keep playing the gigs I wanna play as long as I’m physically and mentally able.”