Like a lot of folks on here, I've been working on I'll Remember April. Since Tony has issued his usual challenge, here's a practice tape attempting to blow over the tune in 12 keys. I used the iReal Pro accompaniment to give my brain and hands an occasional chance to breathe.
This is the piano accompaniment I played when I recently posted a version of "I Remember April. Jen asked me to post it. There's an 8 bar intro over D7sus. for 4 bars and Ab Major 7#11 (or G phrygian) for 4 bars.
The EPK for this group came up on my Facebook feed. Joe Locke sounds great, as always.
Download the attachment for general background and notation of the bell pattern.
In an effort to practice soloing over a tune with few chord changes, I limited myself to only certain chord tones every chorus of Impressions until I've added them all.
Here is a "video" that I made for the 2021 Valentines vibe hang.
I am playing a couple of tunes on my MIDI-fied Vibraphone, "Just the Way You Are" by Billy Joel, and "I'm Not in Love" by 10cc.
Another duo with Tony, this time on Joe Henderson's "Recordame."
I realise there'a already a video of mine on "Recent Activity", but I just saw that "I remember April" is the tune of the month, so, since I have quite a bit of free time at the moment....don't we all? OK..Tony doesn't.....He's teaching quite a bit..good for him and great for his students! Anyway, since I do have time I thought I'd record a semi-latin version of the tune. The sound isn't great..one mike on the vibes and one on the piano...I figured the times we're living in don't necessarily call for perfection...So it's raw and that's cool for me.
Rest in peace to one of my earliest and most profound inspirations! I attached a clip of one of my earliest performances on vibes (late high school). I played drums and piano long before this so I had harmonic and rhythmic vocabulary already and stuff, but this was one of my first real performances on the instrument, and I was obsessed with the Chick/Gary duos at the time, so I chose this tune.