Vibraphone

I've uploaded the Livestream video of the OGD Vibe Quartet from last Friday to YouTube. Enjoy!

Steve Esposito is the 'O' (organ).
Mike Caruso is the 'G' (guitar).
Joe Lis is the 'D' (drums).
And I'm the vibe :-).

Tom P.

Before a new school year, I did some work on my M55 to improve it.
I was unhappy with the silly W brace system, always getting loose at the worst time (when rolling the vibe to my van at 2AM for example...), and being a nonsense mechanical feature, as explained here by John Piper and Nico.
I had noticed too that the gear wasn't sturdy around his vertical axis. Just one bolt on each side to maintain all is not enough after some years of use and the horizontal pieces making the "T" part of the horizontal pedal brace were already bended, meaning a shaky vibes in a few time.

Hi everyone,

For the next few weeks, we will be studying Summertime and Wave. These are great tunes for the TOTM, many things to talk about with both. I will be posting the first introductory lesson on Summertime shortly.

Behn

I can't get over how great this year's Delaware Vibes Workshop was. Tony and Harvey set up a wonderful program, complete with great lessons, guest clinicians, and performances. This was my third summer at the workshop, and although I missed having David Friedman this year, it was wonderful having Dave Samuels (one of my favorite artists when I was in school), Behn Gillece and Christos Rafalides share their expertise, techniques. and stories. I enjoyed all of the lessons, and I feel that my playing has once again taken off.

Florian Poser's BRAZILIAN EXPERIENCE

playing "Air Populaire"
based on the famous "Air on a sixstring" by J. S. Bach

recorded live at the Tedesco Recording Studio, Paramus, New Jersey, USA
2nd of March, 2013

Gustavo Bergalli - trumpet (unvisible)
Klaus Mueller - piano
Itaiguara - bass & ac. guitar
Portinho - drums
Florian Poser - vibes

Sound & Video: Tom Tedesco