Hey guys, this is a clip that was just featured on the Vic Firth YT channel. The footage is from a concert that took place in Boston this past July as part of the Berklee Percussion Festival. The channel will be adding more clips from the…
I've uploaded the Livestream video of the OGD Vibe Quartet from last Friday to YouTube. Enjoy!
Steve Esposito is the 'O' (organ).
Mike Caruso is the 'G' (guitar).
Joe Lis is the 'D' (drums).
And I'm the vibe :-).
Tom P.
This is a funny version of the old Th. Monk classic »Blue Monk« which I recorded with my duo partner STEPHAN KÖNIG from Leipzig.
Please also have a look at the other video of this duo which shows another side of our musical collaboration:…
Wonderful composition by Mark titled "And Marvin is Monk" which is based on Blues changes. Fun tune to play on. The melody and changes are the catalyst for spirited and creative playing. Great comment by Mark at the end of the clip. "You…
Christos Rafalides & Manhattan Vibes
this TUESDAY, MAY 20th at the Zinc Bar in NYC.
8pm & 10pm
Really excited to present our new project 'SERENDIPITY'
Christos Rafalides - vibraphone
Sergio Salvatore - piano
Petros Klampanis - bass…
Here is take two of Autumn Leaves with some thoughts on improv. A simple technique is to play a motive and move it around the scale. The strength of the motive allows it to be played out of the scale of the underlying chord or used over a…
Hey guys,
Started to look at this tune again. Really nice tune 3/4 tune in a minor key by Kurt Weill titled Liebeslied. Sort of plays itself with nice guide tone lines running through the changes. 32 bars, through composed.
FYI: We added…
Guys, here's a version of Ellington's Take The A Train. A Train is one of those tunes that can sound cheesey if you play too diatonic and "in". The changes are fairly diatonic, so if you just play chord tones and diatonic scales, it will…
Happy New Year everyone! I became aware of the beautiful composition Alfonsina y el Mar just before the holidays. Here's an alternate version that I had recorded when practicing the song. (I was also testing out an external mic versus the…
This is the quintessential recording of this tune. Maybe some of the younger guys haven't heard it??
Stop, sit and lesson.
If you didn't know this it makes the tune even heavier.
Billy Strayhorn wrote this tune at age 17 (if my research…
Here's the second lesson of a short series about rhythm changes playing.
As usual there's a pdf that is a summary of what we are going to do during the lesson.
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