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I have had an ongoing discussion with the handful of students and friends who have come to me over the years about the nature of what we are doing as jazz musicians, how to study it and how it fits into the whole music in general. Recently, Tony and I were discussing some of this offline and he encouraged me to put this out here in this forum for discussion.

I love that idea.

Check this Stefon Harris video out!

You guys have probably already seen this.....

The guy who posted this says
"yeah man...bobby hutcherson is a quiet flower cleaning the air we breath.... "

Check out this young guy Alexander Cruz. I met him at PASIC this year. He was playing with an excellent marimba group from Chiapas Mexico called Narimbo:
http://www.narimbo.com/

An excerpt from a concert we did at a local community college.

For more info on Trio Montuno visit:
http://www.triomontuno.com

Maybe this is what is needed to make vibes/marimba more popular ? Dig the showmanship of the bass player (lol)

Made me smile for about 3 seconds....now for something completely different!

Whoa!

This is an amazing improvisation by master marimbist Keiko Abe. Unfortunately is not the entire performance but you can get an idea. She has mastered the 6 mallet technique. If you look carefully she is not only playing block chords, she is also playing lines alternating the sticks and opening and closing intervals within the 3 sticks. She is using the traditional grip. Also the improv is based on one of her compositions called: "Itsuki Fantasy"

She is amazing!!!