Vibraphone

Hi All,
June is shaping up with two new (to me) vibes players, Phil Kraus and Mitch Shiner. I'll open with Christian Tamburr who I met recently at the memorial ceremony for Bob Masteller. Christian flew in from Las Vegas to be there. I really enjoyed seeing, hearing and meeting him. The occasion was a fantastic celebration for the life of Masteller, owner of the Jazz Corner in Hilton Head. Non-stop musicians and music all afternoon from some of the very best.

Hey guys, here's a clip that I recorded at Berklee this past year which was shot by the Vic Firth production team. Next clip to be released will be a solo marimba clip of Gershwin's classic "Summertime". In the clips, I'm using new mallets that I designed and have been using for awhile now. I was at the Vic Firth headquarters yesterday going over the details of the mallet. The mallets should be out in a month or two. Best, Ed

Heads up, Steve Weiss has 15 M-46's for sale for $2999.00. You will never get a new vibe of this quality for this price. Call Dan at Steve Weiss and tell him you heard about this at VibesWorkshop. Ready-Go!!!!!

What a lovely song ! I play all the parts in this one. I'm a pretty good guitar player on MIDI keyboard ! hahaha ! ;o)

Because you're not in an environment where you are playing and keeping your hands in shape.

If you can blow over Cherokee at 300 BPM then you probably don't have to play technical exercises if you don't want to. You can just blow over tunes and work out your hands.

But for a lot of players new to the instrument you can't do that, so then it's important to play scales and other technical exercises and to work up speed.

Not much more to say about that. IMHO :)

Hey,
Here´s more from our last gig of the zappa band.this time with extensive vibes solos :)
hope you like it...
tarik

This clip shows some simple examples to get a pseudo-salsa piano comping sound on the vibes. I've included a basic idea and a few variations. The last example is more of an exercise or short etude, and a transcript pdf file of that one is attached.

Hi everyone,

My debut album as leader, "Mindset", is coming out May 15th. I'm really excited about the recording. The album consists of my originals that I've been playing on gigs for awhile now. If you're interested, check out the title track here. I also have other samples on my website, www.behngillecejazz.com You can also buy an advance copy from there if you'd like!

I'll be posting some info on my CD release gigs soon as well. Thanks!

Behn

Was working on Waltz For Debby yesterday at the house. One of my favorite tunes of Bill. Inspired of course by Bill and the trio's rendition and also a wonderful version by Gary and Chick.