I've been playing through a bunch of standards improvising solo vibes arrangements everyday recently, and realized I might as well record it. Although lockdown sucked in a lot of ways, it has REALLY gotten my solo playing together. Before it might've taken me a week of shedding to get a solo recording of this quality without any huge hiccups. But now I can just sit down and play. It is so freeing! And now, if I play in a band, I just have so much more confidence since I know I don't really need them. Anyone else notice this?

Susan is a great vibe player from Seattle. I've checked out her music for years now.

Look out for Chien Chien! I think she is coming up fast in the jazz world and the vibe world.

Here is a track with her and her band. It's a killer band;

Vibraphone: Chien Chien Lu
Piano: Shedrick Mitchell
Bass: Richie Goods
Drums: Janathan Barber

Concert sponsored by Taipei Economic and Culture Office in New York
Concert Co-sponsored by New Asia Chamber Music
Video: Yang-Lun Hsiao

Download the attached PDF for notation and general background.

Almost done with the whole book (which I have recorded and put up on this site and YouTube). Here is #22, one of the three jazz etudes.

I'm almost done recording the whole book, so here's one of the peskier ones I've been putting off recording.

'Whisper Magic' is a solo vibraphone piece that was composed a few years back and premiered at a duo concert with pianist Sergio Salvatore at New York's Carnegie Hall. Now I got the opportunity to work on a video for it and hope you enjoy it!
Music available at: http://manhattanvibes.com/sheet/whisper-magic

Comping for myself with the left hand is tough. I was trying to set a 120 bpm pace and couldn't get past 105 without running past brain speed and accumulating glitches.

Dave is one of my hero and I was lucky enough to study with him during high school. He used to come every year in Italy and doing summer camps where I learned a ton about his way of playing.

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John Keene I always say is our local historian.

He mentioned a vibe player I never heard about before.

So if John Mentions him, I always check him out.

He is great!