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Our first Pop Up Class! We studied Green Dolphin Street!!!!

I pick a time announce it, which ever subscribers can make it, we study something and then we perform! That is is Pop Up Class!

Here is our performance!

Pretty self-explanatory. Tony thought there weren't enough gongs on my last post.

Well... gong solo this time.

Need I say more?

My apologies to Juan Tizol. It was a great tune before this happened.

Here's a video I made with my buddy down in Chiapas, Mexico. When you enter his town there is a huge (I mean huge) sculpture of a marimba. The cool thing is I think it's made out of metal. Touche! We win!

On Marimba is Alexander Cruz a great Marimba and Vibes player!

Hanging, talking, playing!

No matter what your stance is on guns, I think this is pretty cool!

What do you Europeans think? Very American right?

Here's the website: https://www.12gaugemicrophones.com/

As some of you know, for the past few months I've been studying a lot of Bud Powell on piano, and by the transitive property, also vibraphone. I've done a number of transcriptions and analyses, and I've learned almost every tune he ever wrote. So, for some closure before I go to Oscar Peterson, I'll be posting three solo vibraphone versions of his tunes.

Just got off the phone with a few vibesworkshop members and we had a great time studying Green Dolphin Street!

Our goals are to make a solo version in C and then Eb and then we will do a facebook concert where we each play a version of Green Dolphin Street.