All this talk about Christos Rafalides made me check some stuff on Youtube.

In this video I think Christos really proves the fact that you can se the vibes as the only chordal instrument in a band. He sounds amazing, don't you think?

check him out at 1.36... that always happens to me... stupid glasses...haha

TJ

After Joe's story about Mimis Plessas I went to check youtube, and here is a concert I did with a singer in Athens in 2007. Check out Mr. Plessas in the beginning!

We also did a tune with Christos there, I'll see if I can find it.

TJ

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As some of you know, I work in an association for blind peole. Our neighbour is a school for blind teenagers where I sometimes go to attend "lunch break gigs". So I was really happy when Steve and Gary started talking about blind mallet players!

One of our former Secretary General wrote a book on blind musicians in history. I had a look at it, found no vibist, but the following names in the "Jazz" chapter:

- Jefferson "Blind Lemon": guitar / vocals (blues)
- Terry Saunders Teddell "Sonny": harmonica / vocals (blues)

Flyer is attached.

Diane Monroe, violin
Diane Monroe/Michal Schmidt
Classical Duo (Violin/Piano)

The Diane Monroe Jazz Quartet featuring
Tony Miceli, Vibes, Anthony Marino, Bass,
Todd Isler, Percussion

Saturday, October 10
7:30 p.m.
Yardley Community Centre
64 South Main Street
Yardley, PA 19067

Admission:
$15 Adults
$12 Seniors
$8 Students

This lesson was influenced by working with a great young bass player Dezron Douglas.

Here's a good performance of David Friedman's new etude 'Texas Hoedown'.

I'll buy and send a copy to the first two people who want it and agree to learn it and post a video within 2 months of their performance. (Must be a subscriber)

Here's some thoughts on chord-melodies. I was talking about these in a lesson and thought I'd pass them on to you.

The challenge is for any person who's new to chord-melodies to record and post one.

I'll also post some writting examples below.

A buddy of mine sent me this thesis. Someone analyzed a Burton solo.

Looks interesting. I got dizzy looking at.

haha...just kidding!!

Ok, now serious.

For all of you just sitting around feeling sorry for yourself that you're not working hard enough according to Tony's standards... Let's do the following...

Record and post a version of you playing a duet with tony's 'Have You Met Miss Jones' duet file -> See the 'check this out link'.

Let's see how many of us post a recording by coming friday. That's a hard deadline! After that we can compare and discuss the tune and all relating or non-relating matters...

Ok, so who's in?

TJ