None of These

I have been away for a few days, came back to the workshop and watched the Branford Marsalis video and it still moves me. I read through all the posts and had the feeling that it is time to open up a new thread as too many topics are tumbling through oneanother within the original post...
Before covering the actual topic of my post, I'd like to say, that I am 90% behind Marsalis! Okay, he is being very provocative here, but hey I think he has a point.

The Wall Street Journal has an interesting article on the modern business of writing song lyrics. See http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240527487041649045754218135164517….

Tom P.

Hi all!

As my baby and his mother are sleeping I can't play vibes and instead I play guitar.

David Friedman talked at the Delaware workshop about Jazz as a language one wants to learn. This recording of mine shall show how I speak "Jazzguitar" after about 18 years of "training" now.

Sorry, no vibraphone this time, hope you don't mind, btw the piece is called Somebody's Soul and I actually play only the comping - maybe someone wants to dub something over it?

any feed back welcome

cheers Stefan

This is my 'weapon of choice' at the moment. A Hungarian hammered dulcimer- the Cimbalom. I got it in February and have been practicing like nothing else!

If it interests you I have attached a chart of how it's tuned- it's all over the shop!

I'm planning to get good at improvising on it and start a manouche band...

H'enjoy!
Andre

Beautiful! Simply beautiful! :o)

I found this video on Ed Mann's Facebook page this morning of a performance by the CalArts Percussion Ensemble. Nice piece and performance. Click here for the video.

Tom P.

Hey everyone,

I put all the birthday posts in it's own book section. Let me know if there is any missing.

http://www.vibesworkshop.com/book/tonys-50th-birthday-all-posts-relatio…

TJ

Here are all the posts from Tony's online birthday party.

Check out some old pictures of Tony in this gallery:

http://www.vibesworkshop.com/category/image-galleries/vibe-players/tony…

TJ

Guys,

Oh man. This is terrible... I just got a message from the awful "M. the Inquisitor". She is back! She urged me to post this message for you guys… I'm terrified… So here it is:

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Now wait people!!

You think Tony Miceli is a great master and composer, right? You are all in total awe of his new tune "Prelude for a Rock Star"… But you don't know the truth…

The truth is Tony Miceli is an impostor, who has been trying to fool you all since ever!