He certainly knows a lot about music. I know he plays accordian and vibes.... But WHO IS JOHN KEENE?
Hi Tony!
I recorded Summertime this morning and just wanted to post it to give a proof of life since I have been on holidays for two weeks now. For the comping I used my latest guitar acquisition I bought some three weeks ago. Will take some time until I manage to use the extra strings properly :-)).
Critics are welcome, am happy that the Philly workshop was such a great success, cheers Stefan
Earlier today I was recalling my experiences with French jazz violinist Stephane Grappelly. I made one recording with Stephane and while it is far from earth-shattering, it remains a sentimental favorite of mine. I met Stephane rather serendipitously at a Newport Jazz Festival, and at the time I knew very little about him. I associated his name with the Hot Club of France, a legendary French jazz group led by guitarist Django Reinhardt, a group that came to fame in the 1930's and ended in 1939 because of World War II .
Where: 250 South Broad Street Room 604 (but double check with the guard)
My cell number is: two six seven nine seven three seven nine three eight
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We are having a great time at the workshop!! Watch us today at 3pm Eastern U.S. time.
John Daly who is one of my online students from Ireland (and a great drummer) asked me to write an etude based on what we were talking about in our lesson.
This etude has several parts to it. First there's the melody. The head at the beginning is a chord melody and the head at the end is more a melody accompanied by a line.
The solo section starts off as a chord melody solo. The second chorus, a very simple accompanyment with a line and the 3rd chorus is just a line.
In a way you start off with chords and by the end of the tune, you are playing just a line.
So I've played for a few years and never had a problem breaking strings (although I've only been doing professional gigs for about 8 months). I got a set of Albrights recently and have broken the string on the vibes 3 times in the past month. I had a gig last night where we played 4 sets and I was using a set of med soft albrights. they are pretty soft so I have to hammer the notes out a bit, but not ridiculously. During the second set I realized that the string between my F# and Ab was near failure.
John Brought this video up in another Warren video I just posted.
Check this out. This is a cool video. Warren is on the street, jamming. 2 mallets and he plays like he's on stage somewhere.
I think the playing is really good, and I'm floored by how he uses the 2 mallets. I dig this guy!
I think this is a good track! I dig players that have and lived through the old school and are also trying the new stuff. the combination of it is really cool.
I also dig the showman stuff. He plays and looks at the audience and smiles, neither of things i do on stage. So this is pretty cool to me.
Another bablafon player. I love listening to this and hearing the kids in the background. Folk music is really cool. Ultimately it's what music is really about right?
I'm looking through some of these posts, looking at the replies, seeing the depth of some of these discussions and just flipping out.
Here we're talking about Musser models and there's all this feedback and then Gary chimes in with an in depth reply about the M-55 and the M-48. This is incredible!
I was just excited about all that and thought I would post my excitement.