Vibraphone

I'm sitting here listening to Clifford Brown practicing over Cherokee. He's working out his s***. I did this because I was working out my stuff on cherokee this morning since I'll have to play it in Korea in August! I'm going to start practicing it now. While in Ireland doing a tribute to MJQ, I'm going to play it on the gigs. Just throw it in (John Daly start working on you FAST tempos). So I'll be working on this for the next 60 days.

Yesterday was my first vibes only gig. Untill then, I always had split guitar/vibes gigs.
Bass/vibes in the first part and on the second we had to acompany various singers on the fly with all kind of repertoires, most of them coming without any written music, all of them singing in fancy keys and some of the tunes totally unknown (from me at least). Very good ear exercise !

hey,

although i already posted most of the songs somewhere on the site, i thought to share some excerpts of my first malletkat only gig to show you the advantages of the instrument by using different sounds on the fly. first i was a bit affraid of playing a gig without my loved musser but i must say it all went well. best would be to have them both and setup like i have at home but then i would need a roadie :)

tarik

My Quartet!
Ethan Fisher-Vibes
Quintin Zoto-Guitar
Bass-Josh Fisher
Drums-Jon Tomaro
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Another exerpt from the LA Vibe Summit! Bob is among our members here and sometimes pays us a little visit: swinging Bob!! :o)

I'm a great fan of Marco. He is really really good ! And not known enough to my point of view. Here is a new demonstration of his talent.
Enjoy !

Listen to Wolfgang Schlüter!!! (1988)
Solo starts at 2:50 min.
Unbelievable timing and phrasing!
Have fun!
#FLORIAN
www.florianposer.de

So as you guys know, I just moved to Philly! It was a rough start getting here (the moving company I used sucked @$$), but all is great now! I love this city, I am so happy to be here. I had dinner with Tony tonight and I told him this story. He told me that I had to share it with you guys. I laughed and agreed it would be a good one to let everyone in on. This is not made up, this really happened to me...