hey all .. let me know what ya think of the sound quality of this. this is the maiden voyage for audio here in my new home.. vibes are in the living room so well lets see what kind of recording i can get ...
enjoy
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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:
I'm very appreciative to mon amie Marie-Noelle on her kind words about the tunes on my MySpace page with the H-Factor, a local Philly jazz group. She pointed out to me that since previously, my page was set to private, that nobody was able to access my page to hear them. So I unblocked it. If you have time, please give a listen and tell me what you think. One tune, "That Old Devil Moon", features the great Larry McKenna on the tenor saxophone. The others members are Rob Henderson, the leader, on drums, Pete Colangelo an bass, and myself.
i have attached an mp3 of a trax that is basically a looped 8 bar idea. There is really no chord structure, but rather sound shapes. What i do alot in my home studio with REASON 4, is make short loops ideas to play over.. and then i work on the creative process
in the example its based around a C min tonality.. but can also be a Ab major tonality. like i mentioned previous there was no concept of chords.. just a groove....
with that in mind here is a list of step and ideas i mess around with ...
1. sing a line .. and play it. have a conversation with yourself and your instrument.
I was experimenting with dampening the two inner voices of chords, inspired by Joe Locke's video "Intros Part 1" and heard the song Laura when I lowered the inner two voices a 1/2 step.
last night i had some time welll not really time ..lol ..instead of watching tv i mess with my recording studio... so i imported the portland session into the program and remixed it.
musicians on session
T Macaoidh Vibraphone
David Valdez, alto sax
Michael Pappillo, Bass
Ken OLLis, drums
Tracks areL
AFterThought.. Tmacaoidh circa 2002
A lotis on Irish STreams... BIRD OF FIRE
all are first takes .. 100 percent sighting reading ... oh yess i was an afternoon in the laboratory...
jah bless
I started working on a transcription of Lionel Hampton's performance of "Flying Home" from the YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_rTICMVXQQ
This is the first part. I need to work on getting a less stiff and no mistakes (i.e., internalize it better).
Barry
Don't know what CD to get? Want to find out about more players? Players you don't know about? Look through the picks here! There should be plenty of new ideas for you!
Play along with the duets. Play vibes or even marimba and add your part and then upload it for others to check out!
I created these so you can get some ideas on how to comp for other instruments. Also this will help you're solo playing.
A couple things to consider:
1. If you can accompany me in this setting then when you play with a bass things will be even simpler. In this setting your voicings have to be very clear, you have to do all the work.
2. If you are in settings when you have to accompany another soloist with the support of a bass working like this will help you.