How important is it, as a professional vibes player, to be a great sight-reader?
I prefer working with smaller groups, trios, quartets, etc., but i'm not opposed to working with any other kinds of groups. Right now, i'm a decent…
“this one time, at band camp….”
I got home last night after spending a week at the Jamey Aebersold Jazz Workshop. While this is fresh in my mind, I thought someone may find value if I wrote about it and posted it here.
The first part is a…
The vibes are here! Not permanently (they belong to the high school), but it's something to work on. It's an Adam's "Vibraphone Concert". Excited already!
This is one of the posters I designed for Tony's gig in Ireland during his stay here, it features some fine musicians based here an of course the "Teach" himself. Really looking forward to these gigs.
John
Here is a lesson on building a voicing vocabulary. This is a exercise with offers a method for familiarizing yourself with every possible inversion and alteration of any given chord with a 4 note voicing. This first lesson just deals with…
Hey Chick82!
You joined us some 2 months ago as subscriber and we quite often see you online. You even had the nice thought of wishing Tony a happy birthday on the chat... But we don't hear much from you... hardly a comment, no post...
I…
This is a tune b Bill Dobbins hope you like it, I heard John Abercrombie playing this so I thought I would try it, I have added some effects on it, decided I would post this on Tony's birthday, tear me up
John
I was playing the piano and wanted to randomly choose a tune out of the RealBook, and opened to Lament by J. J. Johnson. I think it is a beautiful ballad. Here is my attempt of an arrangement for vibes. I tried to get the fullness I was…
Hey guys, here's a clip of a recent Sunday brunch gig with clarinetist Billy Novick. We've had the gig a long time and I always look forward to making the drive into Boston on a Sunday morning to play. For many years, I played with the…
Our next vibe hang is July 3rd. So far the line up is:
Randy Sutin, Behn Gillece, Tony Miceli and Dana Sudborough.
I think Nathaniel Vito my student might come an play a tune as well. It's going to be fun!
(Marie - did I do the UTC time…
Sugar by Stanley Turrentine
Playing on the blues (or bluesish tunes like Sugar) always give me a hard time because there are so few key areas to work with. A tune like Stella pulls you right along with the key centers changing frequently.…
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Here we go!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TONY!! We love you!!!
Some of you will remember, last year was a big one for our dear Tony! And we did a big 'cyber-fiesta' on the site!! Some 28 tunes patiently worked in secret and posted on the D-day in…
Hope this is the right topic / place for this question...
I'm new on the vibes and my sight-reading is very very crappy. I'm looking for suggestions for (a) material to use for practice in sight-reading, and (b) approaches to practicing.…
Hi everyone,
I've been sifting through a bunch of video I've been taking of some gigs. I chopped this one up and put it up on my website. It's from a gig I did out in Chicago a few weeks ago. It was a real pleasure to play with this…
ok here´s my final mix of Luiza (C. Jobim) one of the tunes i recorded with my trio latley.mixing is really difficult and it takes a lot of time but one time you have to stop and call it final.
we recorded everything in my flat.the singer…
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