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Hot House Show
David Marchant
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Had the chance to see Chick Corea and Gary Burton and the Harlem String Quartet in Burlington VT last night. What a show. Great tunes, beautiful arrangements and unreal musicianship. The best part of the show, besides Gary Burton's…
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thomas Mackay on vibes, John Zalabak on bass and kelvin underwood on drums, this is a tiny wine cellar that we play at twice a month. the place is so tiny the one nighter vibraphone barely fits in the place .. this is a tune by tmackay…
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My wife took a picture while I was recording myself. So here is my recordingstudio. :-)))) greetings, Stefan
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my wife and i are going to be in manhattan this weekend - anybody got anything cooking? it would be cool to hear and meet a vibesworkshop player. best - r
12 years 10 months ago - 2 comments
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I'm looking into buying my first set of vibes around Christmas this year and I have narrowed my options down to these two. I've played on the m-55, but I'm curious as to how the Yamaha sounds (I've heard great things from other people.) I…
12 years 10 months ago - 10 comments
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Tonight at 6pm pacific time the debut gig of The Mackay Project will be live streamed over www.lostforestrecordings.com copy and paste it to your browser. Mostly originals by tmackay, along with some tunes by sting, elliot smith, and…
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Tony suggested me this book by Jon Metzger. 'The art and language of Jazz vibes'. It arived today. What a beautiful book. I never saw such a nice published musicbook. This one is going to be treated with respect over here. I think I'm…
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Christos
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Anybody nearby, I'll be spending the day at Millersville University and performing at night.
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Finally, a website celebrating the musical genius of Victor Feldman (1934-1987), multi-instrumentalist extraordinaire and one of England's greatest exports! You've heard him on countless film scores, records, he contributed greatly to…
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Quick Exercise
tonymiceli
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prepare 3 tunes and then turn on your recorder and do a concert. record the 3 tunes. this is much better even than doing one tune. i'm doing it all the time now. i think we should have a little online concert series. maybe some of you…
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Hey Everyone, Time to fill you in on November's show. Jerry Tachoir starts us off with "Elect 'Oral' Blues." The second half hour begins with Roy Ayers and the Jack Wilson Quartet (thanks, guys!). Second hour has Dave Samuels in the lead…
12 years 10 months ago - 1 comments
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Hi guys. I would like to share this piece that I wrote called Familisterioso. The band features vibes, cello and bass clarinet + the guitar from master Nguyen Lê for the occasion. The challenge was to put together some very acoustic…
12 years 10 months ago - 18 comments
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Yo. So I know that this TOTM is over. BUT check this out. Amazing how he fills in the Harmony with counterpoint/ Bass lines. And it swings. Hard. I could definitely hear this on vibraphone... What do you think?
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Check out how important dynamics are in separating the melody line from the accompaniment. It's especially noticeable in the first 8 measures of the tune.
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here is a run through of etude number 3, I'm just beginning to play vibraphone and would appreciate constructive criticism
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Hello, Yesterday I went to see a concert, lead by Guitar player Marc Ribot. I really felt like sharing this evening with all of you. Marc Ribot's tribute to fim noir of the 40's, 50's and 60's. Ribot was backed up by 10 belgian musicians…
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