Vibraphone

Beautiful playing by Ed Smith!

This is an article about Teddy that was published in the November 1962 issue of Jazz Monthly magazine.

Let's add what you find to the Archive! :-)

I hear some stuff similar to Walt Dickerson. I mean the out playing. The instrument does lend itself to playing a lot of crazy notes. I think when musical players do this it's great.

Can you see the funny thing in the shots when Teddy is playing?

https://www.vibesworkshop.com/book/teddy-charles/marie-noëlle/050316
Here's a section on Teddy including David Friedman talking about studying with Teddy.

Teddy quit the business for a long time. He came back towards the end of his life. He seems pretty down in this video.
He quite and did something in the Caribbean with a boat. Giving tours or something like that.

I think he sounds pretty good here.

That's me bringing the vibes to the people at my wedding over the weekend. I did a little version of Stevie Wonder's "You and I" before the first dance. She let me buy a second instrument (M75) last year, so I think she's a keeper!

Pure Imagination from Willie Wonka and The Chocolate Factory. One of my favorite songs. One of my favorite versions is from Joe with beautiful singing by Kenny Washington. Please check that out if you haven't heard that yet.

Any recommendations for bar cord for a Omega vibe? Had one snap on me the other night and had to use some musser cord which left several bars with a metallic buzz (also just tried some paracord with the same results! The reason for asking is that Malletech wants $36 plus shipping for a set of cords, which sounds a bit pricey! Especially after having one break on an instrument that's just over a year old. I've never had this problem on any instrument in the past 30 years. So if anyone has any suggestions, I'd really appreciate. Thanks!

So my buddy posted this list on FB. he said it's a list of all the chords.
Too much info for me!!!! What do you think!

All of the chords - Based on melodic/harmonic minor and major.

7th Chords:

△7
△7+
-△7
sus △7
-7
-7 +5
sus7
Dom. 7
Dom. 7
Dom. 7+
ø7
o7
o△7

9th Chords:

△9
△9 +5
△7, #9
sus 9,△7
sus 9
sus b9
-9
-△9
Dom. 9
Dom. 9, +5
Dom. #9
Dom. #9, +5
Dom. b9
Dom. b9, b5
Dom. b9, +5
ø b9
ø ♮9
o ♮9
o △7,♮9

11th Chords:

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