Last Sunday was the Vibe Summit annual meeting in California! This event exists since nearly 20 years now and since last year we are more linked to those we call "the west coast guys". Gary Rich is among them, and I much look forward to his videos... I know it's a long hard work... Go Gary! :o)
Hi Everyone,
In honor of Independence Day, July's Good Vibes will open and close with "America," the first from West Side Story (Cal Tjader), and the second from Mike Mainieri's CD Crescent, also known as "America, The Beautiful."
In between, lots of good stuff:
Cecilia Smith's arrangement of McCartney's "Blackbird" and an absolutely knock-your-socks off version of a traditional Civil War anthem. Hope you can tune in, July 1 and 4. See the following for times.
www.jazzon2.org
Good Vibes airs on the first Sunday of the month, 8-10 pm eastern time
Rusty just joined us on the site. I love his relaxed and swinging 2 mallet playing! Babu had already posted a video with him. This morning Patrice put this one on his Face Book Page. I can't resist sharing it with you! Man this tune is all except "sad"!! (triste) ;-) - Enjoy!
I hope I did OK. Feedback is welcome so I know on what to work.
greetings
Stefan
...just thinking out loud and letting ya'll know what I'm up to at the moment.
I've been sight reading every day for the last month or so. I just print 6 or 8 pages of a solo or something I find online, turn on a metronome and go.
To make a very long story shorter, the past month of my life has been CRAZY trying to find a new place to live, and practicing has unfortunately fallen on the wayside in the process (but I've been working on Rhythm Changes when I can...I'll record and post my final sometime this weekend!).
Let's wrap up rhythm changes this week. Yeah??? I've worked so hard on them the last couple months.
Maybe we just move into the world of bebop and see where that takes us, via etudes and whatever else.
This is not vibes but I think it's a great musical lesson: I discovered this tune today, after listening to a recent interview of Joe Locke where he speaks about it. I heard the Julie London & Shirley Horn versions with lyrics, the Miles/Evans' instrumental. But man when I hear this version I remain speachless: I've never been a great saxophone fan, but to me Michael Brecker here can make the words speak deeper than the lyrics themself... Wow... Enjoy