Vibraphone

Check Out Terry Gibbs' Solo!

SMOKINNNNNNN

Man he's in great shape!

Listen to when he has the whole band playing 16s. Everybody in that band is a mo' fo. Oh man, wait till that part. I was dying!!!

"Antihistamine Moments"

Hi all

Haven't posted for awhile for various reasons. This particular post is for Joe Locke and Philippe Briand. I promised them both and it has taken a little while for me to do this. Enjoy

Vid has flaws and may be out of sync a bit, but that is okey, it is what it is.

BruceW

p.s. Johan F. found my vid on YouTube and it has only been posted for a couple of minutes. Is that fast or what. Thanks again Johan.

Behn came over today to pick up some mallets we started talking about melodies and playing lines. So I asked Behn to play a tune with only melodies and lines, no chords and then talk about it. Here's what came out.

Hi!

Just a practise tape of me playing Autumn Leaves, don't worry its only two chorusses ;-)

critics welcome

Cheers Stefan

P.S. just added a version of the mp3 without metronome

Hi all,

We've talked quite a lot about vibes and popular music. Here is an example.

Yesterday I came across this vid of my vibist friend Norbert. It's not jazz, but he joined a group named 'General Elektriks' where he plays drums and vibes.

In October they were hosted on French program 'Taratata', a good musical moment where music is 100 % live. As guest was 'M', a hip famous French musician/singer (guy with the black hat). The tune they revisited 'Melodie Nelson' is from great French late composer Serge Gainsbourg.

This is my ensemble at the University of the Arts. They're playing the Ornette Blues 'When Will the Blues Leave'.

They're a very talented bunch. Andrew Nitolli is the only freshman in the group and he's doing a great job keeping up with the older students.

Andrew is kicking ass here at the school. He's blowing through a couple transcribed solos and playing them in all the keys, and working out voicings and chords, etc.

He's a former student of Joe Locke and I know Joe is pretty proud of Andrew!

Man I've been working on the tune Beautiful Friendship and it's kicking my ass. The melody, and the phrasing feel really unique to me. And I'm trying to play the tune right down the middle and it's really really hard.

I'm finding I have to kind of study all the spaces in the tune so I can play the melody right. Next the tune's second A doesn't resolve which is a little unusual. And sometimes I want to resolve it just like the last A!