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So, here is our latest release.  If you like it, please download a copy from your favorite service.

Marianne and I have mostly done New Age/World Music stuff in the past.  In some ways, this is still that, but...  We have been so deeply disturbed over the last few years by all the chaos in society that we felt we needed to address it musically.  The result, for me as the composer, was not something really peaceful.

What say you all?   I'm considering doing more music in this general direction.  It honors my heavy metal roots.  :)

So if all goes as planned we're doing a CD of solo vibes with Team Omega. That's Me, Warren Wolf, David Friedman, Joe Locke and Stefon Harris. We are recording in August. I say if all goes as planned because with those cats, everything can change. They are busy people. But it's looking good. 

I picked two tunes, The Song Is You and Stairway To The Stars. 

Here's a new video of an old song. 

hey y'all,

I sometimes cop Balafon patterns to work on. I love listening to Balafon players and checking out their independence. 

Check out this video: 

In the beginning somewhere he plays this pattern. I don't take them down stricktly, because they vary them. 

Every now and then, we talk about the use of vibes outside the context of jazz.

I just became aware yesterday that this track, which includes the first recorded tracks I did with Miss Magnolia (my Deagan Imperial), was released a few years ago.  They had asked for a “vintage sound”, so my thought was to go with her, some old Albright mallets, and a pair of tube based mics.   
 

I want to do more of this.  :)

I'm interested if anyone knows about the history of dampening -- who did it, who didn't, who was the first to do it, etc. After watching lots of videos of great vibraphonists, I can see Milt Jackson did it quite a bit, especially on ballads (probably part of why his phrasing is so incredible), and pretty much every vibes player today I looked at does it to some extent (Tony+David obviously, but also Stefon, Warren, etc.), but I can't find videos where Lionel Hampton or Terry Gibbs do. Not a value judgement at all, I'm just interested in seeing how dampening has developed.

I am working on "O Grande Amor". Here is a version with a bunch of choruses using iReal Pro.

Barry