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This tune is a tribute to Sara Vaughn. I've always loved it, but as far as I can tell it never really made it into the popular fake books. A friend of mine transcribed it back in the the late 1970s. I recorded this version for piano and marimba a few years ago.

The form is kinda long and a lot of fun to improvise on. It's usually done in even 8ths. I checked Youtube and found several covers by a variety of great jazz players. There are also lyrics for the melody, although I don't know who wrote them.

A lead sheet is included.

Joe Doubleday was an early subscriber on the site. He used to post his gigs when he was in high school and just beginning on vibes.

His mom was an airline stewardess so he would fly around the country for free taking lessons off of vibe players and fly home later in the day. Amazing!

Fast forward 8 years and he's graduated Berklee and Juliard and is a great vibe player! He did a cd with a really great clarinetist.

He said I could post a Soundcloud link to the CD for Vibesworkshop Subscribers to check out. It's great!

So here is an epic etude with a lot of what i'm talking about in the videos.

Your job:

Write in the changes with my extensions.
Listen and adjust your pedaling so it sounds like my playing.

aloha,

It's been quite some time that i posted on the site. ive recently been focusing on improvisational music mixed with Electonica in a trio setting known as " TMP"

The mp3 attached we called " Whats Next" free improvisation until the theme is played then it floats into a variety of groove and sonic texture .. the cool thing about all is is the set and how much fun it is ...