I was just playing the piano and realized, I could not dampen single notes while holding the pedal down. But you CAN on a vibraphone! I probably would never have even tried, if I didn't play the vibes.
Barry
http://www.joelocke.com/nl/0910_fof_kitano.htm
Joe Locke ‘Force of Four’
Live at the Kitano Hotel
October 16, 2009
October 17, 2009
2 sets: 8pm / 10pm
66 Park Avenue
at 38th Street
New York, NY 10016
Bookings:
phone: 212-885-7119
email: jazz@kitano.com
Come along to see Joe Locke’s celebrated quartet ‘Force of Four’ - featuring the great talents of Robert Rodriguez (piano), Johnathan Blake (drums) and Ricardo Rodriguez (bass) - live at the Kitano Hotel, NYC, on October 16 and 17.
Visit www.kitano.com for booking details.
I took this picture tonight of our local high school marching band. See anything unusual?
Barry
This was recorded at a recent studio session. Needless to say the two Dana's were promptly sacked!
This is a funny one.
Just a side note.
I talk with Mike about once a week, and I tell you he's a great guy and a very kind soul. There are many Mike Balter stories about great acts of kindness. I feel really lucky to know him and hang out with him.
And Mike is a serious player, and has worked with all the best stage acts in the world.
Thought I'd post one of many invitation takes. Including the ones I trashed I've probably done about 200 takes.
If a few people sign up. I'll get online monday and talk about 'Have You Met Miss Jones' for an hour.
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Well, when I make up these lessons, they usually leave me with a lot to practice.
I've been playing probably a few hundred versions of Invitation over the last few weeks. It's a difficult tune to play solo. And I'm busting my ass on it, big time!!! It's really inspiring to know that while I'm practicing all these other guys are practicing also. I know when I'm practicing in the evening that Barryk is over at his place doing the same thing! That's pretty cool.
I was listening to Pandora.com and heard Bobby Hutcherson play "My Foolish Heart". Nice. I went right to Amazon and downloaded it. I practiced it over the past couple of nights and recorded it. Still needs work, but I felt like posting anyway.
I would have liked to have taken it slower but when BIAB rendered the Real Tracks slower, it didn't sound very good, so I left it nears its optimum tempo.
I also tried it with Tremolo, but for whatever reason, I couldn't get the sound I wanted, so I turned it off for this recording.
In this section we will study and play a tune every week.
In some cases we will have a duet verion to record with or everybody will record a solo version or even a version with aebersold or band in a box. In fact everything is possible. As long as you study the tune and record something.
I hope this is gonna be helpful for a lot of you guys!
TJ