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You've been very gracious to share so much about your life in music. I am hoping you might share a bit about two of your more unusual recordings, "Tennessee Firebird" and "Time Machine." I have always been fond of both. How did you collect all those Nashville musicians in one place? Who is Walter L? Overdubbing was still in its infancy when you recorded "Time Machine." How were the people at RCA to work with? And one last question. Was that you carrying the vibe bars on the cover of your first album "New Vibe Man in Town"?

This video made me smile, really big, and I wanted to post it here. Then I saw that Tifoo posted it. Even better!

Barry

Hey everyone, just got back from San Francisco last week, and I'm happy to say that my group with saxophonist Ken Fowser earned the Generations fellowship for 2009. There's a cool article about it, you can go here: http://www.creativearts.sfsu.edu/node/998

I was recently talking with a student about playing in slow motion. I think I've talked about it here before, but I thought I'd do a little reminder on the topic.

I just checked out Tony's myspace page and listened to him playing 4 and 1. That's some mighty fine vibin' there. Could you talk about that piece? If it's not here somewhere I think others would really enjoy it.

Don't know what to Practice? Grab a few of these licks and just go through the keys. Courtesy of bobland.org!

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Man I've been here practicing for the last few hours. I'm working on stuff I worked on yesterday and I'm realizing once again how important consistency is.

I'm seeing what I did yesterday flow a little better today. It's really exciting and always has been.

That's why I just want to mention about this. Make sure you're setting aside time each day, or most days. You need that consistency to get better.

Just taking a 5 minute break to pass on my 2 cents.

Ed Saindon will be playing this coming Sunday, May 17th at 75 Chestnut's Brunch from 11-3 along with the great upright bassist Thomas Hebb. It's back to school for me on Sunday... yey!

http://www.75chestnut.com

Steve Giordano (gt)
John Swana (tp)
Tony Miceli (vb)

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We'll play for a little bit and then I thought we'd talk about playing without a bass player and playing solo on our instruments for a little bit.

I wanted to address something that I have struggled with for a long time- attaching my self-esteem to my ability to play. I have always struggled with technique and regular practice habits, mainly due to the incessant self-flagellation I inflict during the practice sessions I manage to put together. Plus, part of me feels like if the music business is as bad as everyone says, why spend my time learning to be a great vibraphone player only to be damned to eternal penury playing door gigs in generic jazz quartets?