Vibraphone

Jamming with Behn!

I am doing a presentation about the vibraphone in latin jazz music as part of my thesis and I realized after talking to Tony today that there aren't so many vibes player in this music as there are in piano. I know Tito, Cal, Samuels and Christos but how come no really big names like Eddie Palmieri or Chucho Valdes.
What do you guys think about that?

I would appreciate all your comments because not often some is speaking about those stuff and it's part of my presentation.
Thank you all for your time!

Dimitris

Hi all,

This is stella by starlight on solo vibes. The first is a pre-composed solo and the second is a jamming with the latin feel.
The reason I pre-composed the solo is because that way it's easy to practice specific things. It's the same when you practice a pre-composed solo.

thanks and enjoy

Practicing improvisation on Cole Porter's "You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To". Mixing up improvisational techniques including Four Note Groupings, Pentatonic Scales and Upper Structure Triads/7th chords.

Check out the guy turning the fans for him!!!!!!

Thanks Barryk for sending this to me!!!!

“LEARNING TO LISTEN: THE JAZZ JOURNEY OF GARY BURTON”
-reviewed by Anthony Smith
10/31/14

I realize I’m a bit late to the party, as the book was released in 2013, but having just voraciously devoured Learning to Listen: The Jazz Journey of Gary Burton, I feel compelled to offer a review…

Here's a nice arrangment of a pop song that my old professor did for vibes solo.
Have fun!!!

Hey guys, I hope All The Things is still TOTM. Here are a few choruses on All The Things using chord tones. I think it's important to be able to improvise with strictly chord tones and try to make it sound as musical as possible. It's not easy since all of the notes are stable notes, but only using chord tones allows us to focus on other issues like smoothly making the connection from chord to chord, use of motives, time feel, experimenting with various rhythms, starting phrases in different places in the measure, beginning a phrase on an upbeat vs.

Solo vibraphone on Leonard Bernstein's "Somewhere" from West Side Story. I'm using some reharm on this. To view and download the lead sheet, go here to google docs: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0TwrpqjL6dQUlhRNktkbFhESmc/view?usp=s…