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It's interesting all the feedback I'm getting about my thoughts on trio playing.

toddc, jondaly, keene and friedman are all making great points. I've been thinking really hard about all this lately. I've been thinking about musically what you need to give someone for them to be satisfied musically. The listener that is. What will hold someone's attention and for how long.

This is making me think I should read 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Again'. Some answers should be in there, as I remember.

Behn is coming down to shoot some video and do some lessons! I know some of you (me too) really dig Behn's playing. So this is good news! He'll be coming down this week, and hopefull I'll have stuff up next weekend.

I have a hard time when I'm playing trio. That is when I'm playing a concert and playing trio (vibes, bass and drums). It's easy if you're wallpaper music, or if it's a short set but two one hour sets can be intimidating for me.

I played tonight in front of about 500 people and played trio. Most of the time when I'm in these situations I add a horn or guitar. I feel as though a vibes trio can get boring, like it needs something else. Maybe it's just my stuff (well it is actually) but a vibes trio concert is a big deal to me and can be difficult.

Hey guys i'll be playing at cornelia st cafe with my quartet Friday Feb 26th at 9pm.
Maybe see some of you there!

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So it looks like the spammers have arrived. A couple things:

I've deleted 2 accounts in the last week.

If you see a funny post, put it in the shout box for us to see.

I might ask a few of you guys to take down any comments that looks funny and email me the user name.

If worse comes to worse, we'll have to review comments each night and release them.

Meanwhile I'll talk to my partner. We're using captcha, but I guess that's not enough. Just keep an eye out if you can.

People have been posting what they're working on. They're also posting original compositions and rehearsals and tunes from gigs. This is COOL! I always get inspired listening to others play. And I get ideas also. So I'm glad to see people posting what they're up to! I bet everybody feels the same way.

Hi All,

In the near future I'll probably be working on developing a commercial channel for Roku Players -- as a learning experience, I figured I could get started by developing a vibes channel.

So what's a Roku Player? It's a box that connects on one side to your TV, on the other to your home network, and allows you to play streaming videos from the Internet on your TV. It's main claim-to-fame is that it allows you to play Netflix instant movies on your TV. If you have a Netflix account and don't have a Roku or something similar (like Xbox), you should really get one.

It's a little strange to me that more people aren't talking about what they're working on, posting what they're practicing, putting there stuff on the line. This is something I'll never get. I try to assume that most of you guys aren't posting what you're up to because you're too busy, in a really productive environment. You get it? I guess if you're in college and you're playing stuff in groups, working with your friends, talking to lots of teachers, or doing sessions all week long and putting your stuff on the line all the time, then yeah, this wouldn't be first on your list.

If I had to make a fantasy workshop up, how I would like to see everything turn out, this would be it.

We all got to meet Marie, Nico and our guest David Friedman.

What a down to Earth, hip guy Friedman is. It's really great. At this workshop he's just one of the guys. He's just like another buddy. However, when he teaches I'm amazed at how much he can draw out of someone in a few simple minutes. That blew me away. He'd get someone up there, make a couple comments and bam they'd be making music together.