Tifoo brought up Teddy Brown. I think he's an amazing player from back in the day. Man that instrument was popular wasn't it?

I know some of these topics we've been talking about are a little over some of your heads. Which is fine, I'd like to help get you further up the ladder, so you can understand more of that.

With that in mind, What questions do you have that might help me when making up lessons for this site. Let's stick on the more basic side of vibe playing in this topic.

What do you think?

Anyone know where to get a belt for a Jenco? I have a friend who just bought one and needs the belt? Any substitutions??

Thanks
tony

Hello everyone,

Just wanted to let everyone know that I will be playing with Ken Fowser's group at Chris' Jazz Cafe in Philadelphia on Dec. 20th, Saturday night at 11:30. Please stop by if you have a chance. Here is the lineup:

Ken Fowser- tenor sax
Behn Gillece- vibraphone
Luke O'Reilly- piano
Adam Cote- bass
Pepe Merolla- drums

Thanks,

Behn

Follow me through this. Here are some advanced concepts in *comping*. man I hate those fancy titles. I'm just playing through the changes vertically and horizontally. Check it out, follow me, play along and ask questions. At the end I comp/solo through several choruses of the chords to Invitation.

Check out the first part of this video. Matt is a local guitar player. What struck me is watching him play solo and realizing that would totally translate to the vibes. There's a major conceptual study there in playing the vibes solo.

I've learned so much from listening to guitar players play and especially play solo. They have the same problems we have. I just thought I'd show you guys this.

thought i'd share some recent new york xylophone action I recently found!

I had a lesson with Tony today and after the lesson we started talking about learning the tradition and how mentors are key figures in that process. I was telling him that I read an article about this issue on a magazine. The name of the article was: "Earn your keep. Jazz and the lost art of apprenticeship." and it's based on the liner notes of alto saxophonist Bobby Watson CD "From the Heart" that features his "Live & Learn" band.