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Inspired by Marcel Pascual's beautiful arrangement of "I Remember You", I decided to learn it. Somehow, it turned into a stride arrangement. Barry
13 years 10 months ago - 17 comments
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Just to wish all you vibers who are Irish or half Irish or who think or wish they were Irish a Happy St Patricks Day to you all, keep vibing. "Slainte Go Beo" Go raibh do ghloine lán go deo. Go raibh láidir go breá an dion thar do cheann.…
13 years 10 months ago - 6 comments
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Hi Toni, Any suggestions on which is the best way to move a MUSSER M55 on a plane ? Thanks.
13 years 10 months ago - 3 comments
Vibes Album Covers
Marcel Pascual
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Hi Vibes Lovers! Sometimes when I'm looking for vibes albums I find that, altough the instrument is not very popular, or perhaps because of it, the vibraphone has especial atractive for the cover image. Bars, mallets, ressonators, frame,…
13 years 10 months ago - 6 comments
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I've pulled this 1988 CD out of the stacks in honor of this month's TOTM. It's a mix of standards and blues. Very nice listening! It has Hamp's version of "Someday My Prince Will Come", the TOTM we worked on in July. And best of all, there…
13 years 10 months ago - 1 comments
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Hope this is the appropriate place to post. I'm looking for a vibes player to add to a small jazz ensemble in northern Wisconsin. Probably from Stevens Point or north of there. I'm based in Vilas county but most gigs are from Wausau and…
13 years 10 months ago - 0 comments
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Here a beautiful ballad played with a marvellous group behind him. If you go on YouTube with that video there is the whole concert (all the tunes are of an incredible level). Quality sound and video, the guitar player is a blast too, and…
13 years 10 months ago - 2 comments
Aftermath music
Randy_Sutin
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sooo... like many folks on the east coast of the US, I spent the night awake wrestling with water that was determined to enter my house. Good news. I won. Through the night, people with dark senses of humor kept playing this song, so it…
13 years 10 months ago - 2 comments
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Check out the audio clip I have attached this article. I think sometimes students don't get it, that is how to really study something. How a little snip it can be so valuable. I spend 2.5 hours on this snippet tonight. First I love it! It'…
13 years 10 months ago - 5 comments
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My MalletKat came back on Wednesday with the KS v7 upgrade. I am now officially a super MalletKat Fan. Having the internal sounds really helps very much. Especially these PC3 sounds. A few things I want to mention. 1. I still have to get…
13 years 10 months ago - 2 comments
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with aebersold in the background.
13 years 10 months ago - 10 comments
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My homework is late! Here is last month's totm in a different key.
13 years 10 months ago - 2 comments
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This year Gary Burton - Joe Locke - Warren Wolf are all playing at the festival, woo-hoo!! I'm hoping to meet them. I met Joe the last time he was here with his Milt Tribute band. Joe took time after his set to chat with me for a few…
13 years 10 months ago - 7 comments
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13 years 10 months ago - 5 comments
Memorizing Tunes
ethanfisher
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Hey Vibes workshop, Its been a month since the delaware workshop, ive learned alot, and when i practiced my 4 hours in my practice room i would work hard to memorize these tunes. Its a month later and now,the chord changes of…
13 years 10 months ago - 13 comments
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Hey everyone, To reaffirm my belief in the value of composing alternate melodies, I'd like to offer up a Free CD of mine to the first two people to post an alternate melody to any of the Tunes of the Month that we have gone over on the…
13 years 10 months ago - 18 comments
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Hello guys, Tony graciously posted Joe and I playing Stella By Starlight (which was the last tune of the concert). If anyone is interested in checking out more of the concert, all of the clips are now up on my YouTube channel. Gustavo shot…
13 years 10 months ago - 3 comments
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I hope you stay safe and dry. Thinking about our NYC members and those who live up and down the Atlantic coast. You're all in my thoughts and prayers. Tony Fontana
13 years 10 months ago - 6 comments
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Simple duet to play with me. I thought about using a click track or a sampled beat, but I think this works ok.
13 years 10 months ago - 3 comments
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It's funny to see this talk about learning tunes. I have 3 tunes to learn. 2 I have never played and one I've forgotten. Jubilation (new) Que-Tee (new) Conception (forgot) I spent the last 2 hours on Jubilation. I learned the melody first…
13 years 10 months ago - 2 comments
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Several years ago 1980's, I did a lot of transcribing. I found a great way was to start in the beginning of the Jazz Era and work your way up. We had a great library in Pasadena, CA and I checked out a bunch of early jazz from around…
13 years 10 months ago - 4 comments
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I did a recording session yesterday and something awful happened. We were playing the tune Move by Denzel Best. I couldn't play one part of the tune. I had to practice it for 20 minutes. I realized that I got into a bad habit or something…
13 years 10 months ago - 4 comments
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Hi all, I'm happy to announce that I just received early copies of my third CD from Posi-tone entitled "Duotone". It's a co-led group with tenor saxophonist Ken Fowser, and it features a great rhythm section with Donald Vega on piano,…
13 years 10 months ago - 4 comments
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with aebersold in the background.
13 years 10 months ago - 1 comments
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I love this tune! Let's see how bad I can F@#k it up.
13 years 10 months ago - 1 comments
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