Hi All,
Coming up in September's Good Vibes, west coast vibist Charlie Shoemake debuts with a cut from his CD Inside with a tribute to Victor Feldman, "Azul Serape." Here's the rest of the line-up:
Gary, David, Mike, Eddie, Terry, Milt,…
Corey is a member here, though he has a slightly different approach on vibes and on music than most of us. I think he's a great vibes player and person, with a true passion for the instrument like all of us.
He recently decided to sell…
Hey Guys,
I'm playing at Zinc Bar on August 30th with the Ralph Peterson Fo'tet. We play 3 sets. 1 at 8:00pm, 10:00pm, !2:00am. I hope I can see some fellow vibe players there! I'm also playing at Rue 57 on the 31st with the same group at…
Greetings everyone,
I've recently been enjoying working on exercises in "Velocity Warm-Ups: 92 Improvisional Patterns for Jazz Vibraphone and Marimba" by Charles Dowd. Some great ideas for practicing scales, arpeggios, modes... ects.
I…
hi,
this taken from one of my last gigs during this summer (believe it or not that´s the summer in germany!) unfortunatley the vibe is a bit low during comping.
hope you like it.
tarik
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Look at that awesome picture!! Tony is currently spreading the good vibes in Korea! And they do things "in big"! Go Tony!!! :o) ps: special thanks to Sangwon, Tony's Korean student and member here, for making it happen!
French vibist Franck Tortiller is to launch in November a tribute album to Janis Joplin. Here is a excerpt... with Monsieur Jacques Mahieux on vocals! Enjoy!
Hello guys,
I started to work on the solo lessons yesterday and I was watching some youtube videos from Marie's post on "listen first" (http://www.vibesworkshop.com/video/totm-art-solo-vibes-listen-first/mar…) and I accidentally saw this…
Beautiful!
This is how started my day... Could have been worth, huh?
I only truly recognized the tune around the end, but it's even better I think. I love the "shadowed" intro, the feeling all through the piece, the loneliness and…
This clip is from a gig last January playing Ted's composition Ida Spoons which is based on Stella. The cameraman missed the head and part of Ted's solo which is a shame. Ted is composer/saxophonist with Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra…
This is my last etude on the bebop lessons. Ofcorse this is not the end but the beginning. I now really know what to do and what to practise and that's great! Thanks all the guys for these lessons. I was practising a TOny's lesson which is…
man sometime you just lament about selling any instrument ... years ago i bought my first vibraphone which was in 1987. a new musser m 48 .. serial number was 153.. wow .. when i was on tour with 3 leg torso out of portland in 2004 the bar…
My First Jazz Gig
So...I don't usually write blog entries, but I figured I'd share some insight from my first-ever jazz gig in the community last week. I know some of you are old pros at gigging, but for those who aren't, here is one…
If anyone is interested, this is an article I wrote for PAS's periodical. I geared it towards a college student who is a percussion performance/education major, but the hardcore jazzer can get just as much out of it (I hope). Some of the…
