Joe Locke - Force of Four will be performing at Smoke, in NYC, December 4. 5 & 6.
(w/ Robert Rodriguez, Johnathan Blake, Ricardo Rodriguez)
Smoke: http://www.smokejazz.com/
yo, i have a 4 oclock sunday gig. it pays great!! so that's cool. let me find out what time it's over and get back to you.
i'm hoping i can get home early. i work i think 7 nights next week, which is good. but after that it's slow, and i'…
Hi everyone, I was going wait until the album was available on itunes and amazon until I announced this but I have no clue when thats going to happen BUT the CD and MP3 CAN be purchased through the label website right now!
My new (first)…
When I started playing with 4 mallets, I had to choose which grip to use. I decided to use the Miceli grip because it seemed like an intuitive transition from using 2 mallets, where the inner mallets (mallets 2 and 3) usually handled the…
We're all excited here at vibesworkshop.com because Ed Saindon has agreed to become part of our faculty. Ed will be posting lessons and more, hanging out with us at the vibe hangs! Helping all of us to get better on the instrument. Ed has…
Not much, until you get lost in YouTube.
Part of my vibes study routine is to see what's posted on YouTube.
Someone post "Wii Music - Legend of Zelda (Vibraphone)"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5ZLKQm6YWE
Which led to someone playing it…
I wrote this as an etude to study chords and comping with roots. This etude goes through the chords of Blue Bossa in a way that uses lots of up partials and scale tones. The pedal is down for most of every bar. Use common sense with the…
I had a fellow few vibes enthusiasts over recently, during which I noticed how geeky we all are. I thought that I would post some photographs that were taken that day. Please don't blast me for posting a photograph of myself. I thought it…
I'm curious to know what your most challenging aspect of playing the vibes is or has been. I'd like to know from both the "pros" and the "up and coming Pros". This should be very unique to each individual. We all have different views on…
I think it's ok for every young musician to rebel against those who came before if they choose. The discussion about lines and then John's post about challenges of the instrument got me thinking.
Burton, Milt, Joe, Friedman, Stefan...…
I posted this over at www.larrysimprovpage.com and thought that maybe it would be of interest to some of you here, especially the pros.
Everybody is going for a bail out plan, well jazz musicians should also. After all, look at all the…
ok, im thinking as i listen the digital jazz station that we get thru cable Tv. so many different recordings and omg the history .. so i got to thinkng.. I wonder what bobby hutcherson is listening to? what is tony listening too .. and on…
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I just bought a vinyl copy of the album "We get requests" by the Oskar Peterson Trio. I know this record since I was a teenager and for me the solo OP plays here is one of the finest jazz solos ever recorded. OP uses rather few notes,…
Tony recently pointed out a great article about the vibraphone on NPR. That’s something we are all concerned about: to get more people to know about this too uncommon instrument.
For this new post, Ladies and Gentlemen, let me introduce…
hey all .. let me know what ya think of the sound quality of this. this is the maiden voyage for audio here in my new home.. vibes are in the living room so well lets see what kind of recording i can get ...
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