READ THIS BEFORE PLAYING THE AUDIO:
I dedicate this to Tony because I think this is probably what Christmas Music sounds like inside his head after hundreds of gigs playing it (static); I dedicate it to Nico because he's a cool guy and it…
Here is a little piece of music(see attachment) from a theater show I'm doing n Januari. This is a short introuction to the third part of the show. I thought this would be a good exercise for sticking.
A lot of guys are always asking: "…
Hey Tony,
I have a few of different version of Green Dolphin Street ready to go. I might try to record it one more time tomorrow and then post it. Talk to you soon!
Jon
Tom Beckham Quartet "REBOUND" CD Release Event
Chris' Jazz Cafe
featuring Chris Cheek - saxes, Matt Pavolka - bass, George Schuller - drums
December 10, 2008 - 9pm
Chris' Jazz Cafe
1421 Sansom Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102
215-568-3131…
Malletech announced a new vibraphone that allows manual tremolo using your foot (is manual the right word?).
http://thevibe.net/smf/index.php?topic=1120.0
Looks interesting.
Gavin has a great write-up on it:
http://gavinmcgraw.blogspot.com…
Trying to sort some stuff out, but I have some things in mind over the xmas break. I'm finished teaching at school (Univ of the Arts) and have a month off.
I'd like to get on line a lot over the month and hang out with subscribers. Maybe…
Bah humbug!! You guys are in the holiday spirit! I'm not a holiday guy at all and I'm dreading my Friday gig. We'll be in some guys mansion and we'll be playing tunes and of course someone will want Christmas tunes. some of them are pretty…
Hey Everybody,
Marie has been hagging me to blog about the two times a have seen Mike Mainieri play in the last week. But I've been fed up with some really complicated personal stuff... Well actually that has been going on for a year now,…
Here's another song I was thinking of adding for my Xmas gig.
I was working on a solo version and also with accompaniment. Enclosed is a version with Band-in-a-Box background
For some reason my setup is real noisy. Gotta track that down…
Real simple. Pick something. Play it and record it listen back and do it over and over for an hour or so.
Record then listen to it. Just keep the cycle going and don't interrupt the cycle.
Real simple real easy. Maybe a head to a tune?…
Hi everyone, feel free to check out my website if you get a chance. www.behngillecejazz.com I plan to add some more pics and stuff, but if anyone has any other suggestions, that would be great. Thanks.
Behn
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…