Vibraphone

hey everybody,

few weeks ago i heard this tune wonderful (and much much better than me) played on youtube. i was blown away by the composition of david and the performance of course too. to me it´s one of the best solo vibes pieces i ever heared and i immedeatley wanted to play this song.so i ordred the notes and here i am about 2 weeks later really spending every free minute i had only on this piece (sorry tony no TOTM´S)

Just a heads up. If you're planning on coming to the Delaware workshop, it's starting to fill up. There was a lot of advertising outside of Vibesworkshop so between that and VW members it's inching it's way up there. If you're a VW member and want to attend, let me know and I'll hold a few spots for a couple weeks while you're getting your application in.

This is a video I did a few months ago of me playing Autumn leaves.
I really struggle with these solo performances (especially improvising over changes!)
What's my weakness? And the next step to improving? Any other points to make?

Wouldn't it be cool to get back to our old tradition: the "Who is" posts?
If you want to know what a "Who is" is and read some of them, they are all here:
http://www.vibesworkshop.com/book/who-book/tonymiceli/031309

So my question today is... but for God's sake who is Babu? Huh? :o)

i dug frits' solo!

Here is Fritz Landesbergen playing When You Wish Upon A Star on the new machine, sorry about the background, enjoy

John

Some pics from Frankfurt Fair 2011

John

A guy calls the local musicians' union to get a quote on a six piece band for a wedding.

The rep says: "Off the top of my head, I'd say about two thousand dollars."

The guy says: "ARE YOU KIDDING? —— FOR MUSIC?!?"

The rep responds…

"Let me suggest that you call the plumbers' union and ask for six plumbers to work from six to midnight on a Saturday night. Whatever they charge you, we'll work for half!"

Here is the link to the interview, please ignore the camera going in and out of focus its an automatic thing, I have put all the info on You Tube with the video. There is background noise but that is unavoidable in these circumstance as there are thousands of people at this fair. Enjoy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVjqg4xRymw

John

I found this clip on youtube introducing a new vibe design called a tri-chromatic vibraphone. The keyboard layout is radically different from anything I've ever seen. Check it out.

Ted