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I posted this over at www.larrysimprovpage.com and thought that maybe it would be of interest to some of you here, especially the pros.

Everybody is going for a bail out plan, well jazz musicians should also. After all, look at all the gigs we're losing because of those greedy f*(kin b**t(*(s who chiseled away everything they could until there was nothing left. They didn't care about anybody including our jazz gigs!

So I propose only 1 billion to be set aside to compensate us for the following (that's much less then anyone else is asking for):

Hi everyone, I was going wait until the album was available on itunes and amazon until I announced this but I have no clue when thats going to happen BUT the CD and MP3 CAN be purchased through the label website right now!

My new (first) album "Prologue" is now available!
I'm going to provide an MP3 of one of the tracks plus the pdf of the chart only for vibesworkshoppers!

Check it out, let me know what you think!

If you want to purchase the CD or MP3s you can get them from:

www.innercirclemusic.net

Not much, until you get lost in YouTube.

Part of my vibes study routine is to see what's posted on YouTube.

Someone post "Wii Music - Legend of Zelda (Vibraphone)"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5ZLKQm6YWE

Which led to someone playing it on Theremin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJYho56INKU

"The King (for T.M.)"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnrxeO6PpDM

Jazz Baltica 2007

Hi!

I just bought a vinyl copy of the album "We get requests" by the Oskar Peterson Trio. I know this record since I was a teenager and for me the solo OP plays here is one of the finest jazz solos ever recorded. OP uses rather few notes, has a perfect phrasing and creates an tremendous "dramatic arc" over the solo and takes it to almost "reliefing" climax. And yet another aspect is the bass by Ray Brown and the drums by Ed Thigpen that faciliate and support the solo so well.

We have a podcast up on itunes called Percussion Geeks. It sort of helps the vibe cause, our website cause and more. I would love it if any of you guys could go over and put up a review. Do any of you subscribe to the podcast?

This link will take you directly there. http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=289736…

If any of you have video that would fit this format, i can include it. Even audio. Just as long as it pertains to being a Percussion Geek!

I'm just sitting here listening to the 'Procrastinator' and I realized that most of the cd's I've bought recently have come from the cd library here. I don't do much in the library, it's mostly Tjaco and Patty I think.

They have turned me on to great stuff that I didn't have. I can't believe that I never bought the Procrasinator! Also the Jackie Mclean cd's with Bobby H.

Really cool. Any of you other guys that want to put your recommendations in I can set you up. Especially Paps. You've seen him around and he's a walking musical encyclopedia.

Tony recently pointed out a great article about the vibraphone on NPR. That’s something we are all concerned about: to get more people to know about this too uncommon instrument.

For this new post, Ladies and Gentlemen, let me introduce you London based vibraphonist Roger Beaujolais! Here is a video he recorded for the internet music channel "MusFlashTV". What I like in this sample, is the approach of the instrument: at a time basic, complete and concrete.

I was replacing the threshold on one of my exterior doors. Took the threshold out of the package. It was aluminum, so I'm thinking, hmmmm, what's the pitch? I can really use a low-E. Uhh, no, but I have the start to making a Gyil. lol

In case you ever wanted to know what a 36 inch aluminum door threshold sounds like, I've enclosed a sample.

Barry