This is pretty cool! Check out Joe's solo. I was just looking around and this floored me. The thing I also dig is their re-interpretation of the tune. I hear a lot of reinterpretations these days and a lot are so far removed from the original that I personally get a little turned off. It's obvious that Keeser knows the path back to Summertime (IMHO).
Bars, resonators and their tuning.
Base of the vibes' sound ofcourse are the bars, and in a huge amount the (tuning of) the resonators.
I'll try to explain in the next article how to tune the bars, how to tune the resonators, and how to get the best benefit from the resonators.
Bars.
It is widely know that vibe bars have their fundamental tuned, and the first overtone to a double octave.
Last minute post and just a long shot, but if anyone is here from the Harrisburg, PA area, I'm at the Harrisburg Hilton tonight. Trio, John Ragonese (sax), and Micah Jones (bass).
Just thought I'd mention it. Probably should have posted this a few days ago.
The Hilton is a great Jazz Room. Sometimes it gets noisy, but for the most part it's cool.
We're all excited here at vibesworkshop.com because Ed Saindon has agreed to become part of our faculty. Ed will be posting lessons and more, hanging out with us at the vibe hangs! Helping all of us to get better on the instrument. Ed has been playing and teaching on this instrument for YEARS now. So he has a ton to offer!
I just thought I'd announce that. I'm going to put up his section of the site hopefully today and then he'll start sending lessons down!
Here is a pretty extensive discography of Joe Locke recordings. Some are hard to get a hand on, but this will give everyone here a pretty good basis of getting stuff by Joe Locke.
I'll try to post amazon links to the records I can find there for everyone to check out.
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To this day, I still love Led Zeppelin, Paul McCartney, The Stones, The Doors, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix... and of course The Beatles… and many other pop bands. I love them just as much as I do any music. They all played perfectly (to me). And today with my ears having decades of learning, listening and educating, I find this music to be even more astonishing.
Douglas Walter contacted me first, so he'll get a masterclass. He teaches at the University of Colorado. I'm hoping to video the workshop and i'll post it here!