Tony wanted me to come over his house to hang, and record the Arabesque that I am working on. Since I don't play vibes with graduated bars as well as non-graduated bars, Tony offered to come my house!
I had a lot of fun. I got to try out…
A few months ago, as I was playing my YV2700 Yamaha vibraphone, the rotators stopped spinning and my control lights were kinda sputtering. I reached down to check the motor pullies and they were "frozen". No way could I get the belts…
This is an version of Brecker Bros Inside Out with Aebersold backing track a lot of notes which really suits brass and reed players, here's my attempt, tear me up
John
Check out this line up tomorrow!
Me (of course)
(in alphabetical order)
Behn Gillece
Mike Pinto
Dana Sudborough
Joe Veltri
(checking on Randy Sutin)
THE HANG IS HERE!
Venezuelan vibraphone player Alfred Naranjo joins the Venezuelan Expressions concert at the New Freedom Theater for a concert fusing traditional folklore rhythms with the music from the Caribbean, jazz and with some elements of classical…
Hey who wants to meet up for dinner and then go see Bobby Hutcherson play?
Let's make a list here, then we can find a restaurant nearby and have dinner.
We'll go dutch, I'm too broke to pay for a bunch of vibe players!
I'm in.
Leave a…
While trying to think up new lessons to post on the site I many times think of something and think, 'Oh man I already did that!'. However many of these lessons are buried. So I thought this would be 'FAVORITE LESSON WEEKEND'. Dig up an old…
I'm thinking of doing the next vibe hang October 10th. Who's in?
Any European guys??
I think if you have a laptop and a video cam, it will work pretty good.
Are you tired of blue bossa? I don´t like the song too much also. But i think it´s a good study and best of it to play it the way you might like it more. I tried this today. One good thing about tonys do it in all keys is, that i could…
Next Sunday, October 3rd, I am performing at the famous Lambert Castle, in Paterson,N.J., with a violinist. We have never played this combination before and this video will show us practicing together for the very first time.
This melody,…
This is one of the tunes we are working on in improv class just the melody ignore the beginning trying to catch the start as there is no count in working on the chord accomp
John
When I was a young kid I used to listen to Buddy Riches LPs awake and asleep so I could capture everything he does and the other players too. I could literally sing every solo on my favorite albums.
Even today I will often put a song or…
Years ago I saw somebody do a report on Charlie Parker solo and they stripped down all the ornaments of the solo.
I could never find the report since then, I think I saw it in a magazine but I would always look at Parker solos and…
I gave myself the Coffee Shop Test tonight. That is I'm playing solo in a coffee shop what would I play. Here's what I did.
I like coffee shops because if you play in them they're very low key. No one is walking expecting anything heavy. I…
So this was kind of a difficult lesson to create because it basically happens when I'm doing a one-on-one lesson. In the lesson we talk about something like comping, or soloing, work time, or whatever. Then usually I come up with some…
Last Friday night, Mike Pinto visited me at thr restaurant that I gig in on weekends and after he introduced himself, I "gave him hell" for not getting there sooner.
All that will say is, "we WOW'd the patrons" jamming the tunes selected.…
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