I'm happy to announce that Joe Locke, Tony Miceli (me), Ed Saindon, Patty Franceschi and Tjaco Oostdijk have been working on an article for PAS magazine. The article will be in the April issue of the magazine. Supplemental material will be here for when the article comes out.

If all goes well a lot of vibe players will be coming to the site. I will open up all the Giant Steps material for everyone to see for month or 2.

Check out Lem Winchester!

HERE'S THE LINK TO WATCH TODAY

Ok, let's do the next vibe hang on Feb, 8th.

ok, SO FAR: PATTY, MIKE PINTO, MAYBE BEHN GILLECE, ADAM LAST NAME? FROM TEMPLE UNIVERSITY (REALLY GOOD) TEXAS? DANA AND FRIENDS? Dan Mcarthy? Blake? James Shipp! Jackson Greenberg!

Make sure you get set up and test your set up: Read this: FAQ on how to do this

Hi all!

John Hollenbeck's newest release "Rainbow Jimmies" The Music of John Hollenbeck is a great CD! I've been listenning to it non-stop these past days!

I thought that it would be a good idea for you to check it out because besides the fact that it is full of great compositions, it features a vibes player: Matt Moran.

Please check it out at: http://cdbaby.com/cd/hollenbeckj

I think we'll be having another vibe hang this saturday! I think Behn Gillece will be here and I'm trying to get Patty Franceschi and maybe a couple other players from the area over.

Also Marc Prz will be on bass. I'm hoping for 1pm east coast USA time. As it gets closer we'll zero in more on the actual time.

The Vibe Hang Will Be Here

I'll be mailing cds tomorrow the day after Christmas. I went several times and the lines were so long! Tomorrow should be fine. So you should have them soon!

This is pretty cool! Check out Joe's solo. I was just looking around and this floored me. The thing I also dig is their re-interpretation of the tune. I hear a lot of reinterpretations these days and a lot are so far removed from the original that I personally get a little turned off. It's obvious that Keeser knows the path back to Summertime (IMHO).

Bars, resonators and their tuning.

Base of the vibes' sound ofcourse are the bars, and in a huge amount the (tuning of) the resonators.
I'll try to explain in the next article how to tune the bars, how to tune the resonators, and how to get the best benefit from the resonators.

Bars.

It is widely know that vibe bars have their fundamental tuned, and the first overtone to a double octave.

Last minute post and just a long shot, but if anyone is here from the Harrisburg, PA area, I'm at the Harrisburg Hilton tonight. Trio, John Ragonese (sax), and Micah Jones (bass).

Just thought I'd mention it. Probably should have posted this a few days ago.

The Hilton is a great Jazz Room. Sometimes it gets noisy, but for the most part it's cool.