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Hi!
As you some of you already know I moved in to Philadelphia to do my Master's degree with Tony at University of The Arts. I wanted to say to all of you that Tony is a monster both playing and teaching and already learned a tons from him. That is the reason I am not so active to the site but I make sure that me and Tony work hard and all the vibe hangs will be great!

Tony you are the man....thanks a lot for everything!!!!!!

Dimitris

Hello
Since we are practising Duke Ellington's tune I am going to play try to play the tune called melancholia which is a greek word and it means I am very sad (it's actual a medical term).
I could play it with a bass player or by myself....

See you all soon!

I'll be Livestreaming my gig with the Trude Witham Group on this Friday, 13-Sep-2013, from 8:00-10:30EDT. You can join us at http://new.livestream.com/accounts/1758489/events/2395741.

It keeps popping up. Either the student doesn't know the melody or sort of knows it. Or, he can only play the melody with his 4 mallet arrangement.

I think you guys should make yourselves a promise. When you learn a new tune, you will learn the MELODY first and play it and work on it, unaccompanied. No chords. Use your inner to hear the chords while you play the melody.

Next learn the chords.

Then you can put them together, but NEVER forget the melody or lose the ability to play it unaccompanied.

Deal?????? This will go a long way!

Hi All,
Want to know what is happening in October on Good Vibes radio? Of 19 tunes only four are standards. Three are reharmonizations of Lennon/McCartney and Stevie Wonder. The remaining 12 are newer contemporary compositions (eight of those were written by the performing musicians).
When I hear people say that good jazz is no longer being written, I ask them to please listen to my show. And when I hear people wondering about "where jazz is going," I tell them the same.

Hey Everyone,

It's been a while since I visited the site. SHAME ON ME ! I know.

I thought I would come back out of Holiday end of July, and then continue to work on playing, and I started on doing so, but I just couldn't keep up.

As of Yesterday I have a new job ! Last week I still was a productionplanner in a assembly factory, as of this week I'm a teacher.
I teach sound and lightning technics in my hometown's highschool.(In my previous life I was a technician in theater)

This was taken from the concert announcement. The Premiere is on Sept. 8th in Linz, Austria.

Performed by Bruckner Orchester Linz / Dennis Russell Davies
, Vibraphone:David Friedman
Video by Romy Kießling (DE),
Noam Gorbat (DE/IL)
a concerto for improvising vibraphone dedicated to David Friedman

hi all people this is a copule of videos of a past gig last year
a friend send me the video and I put this on you tube, one tribute to milt
and the other neal hefti tune with the vibes and marimba

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQUvpnS0B8Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ob5qT2z92s&feature=youtu.be