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Good Vibes on the Radio, Update April 2018

gloria krolak 22 March 2018
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Hi Everyone,
With all this snow in the northeast it's hard to believe spring has arrived. At least that's what the calendar says.
This month's Good Vibes happens to fall on Easter Sunday, also known this year as April Fool's Day.
I'll start the show off with Roy Ayers and the Jack Wilson Quartet. Steve Hobbs reminded me how good Ayers is and that nudged me into playing something of his. Bria and Stefon Harris are next, followed with a ballad by Milt Jackson. "Bags" could really play those ballads, couldn't he?

Darn That Dream - Vibraphone Masterclass

ed saindon 18 March 2018

My student and I were working on “Darn That Dream” today in a private lesson. We were talking about playing voicings under the melody and discussing ways of adding color to the harmony while playing the melody. A lot of the voicings and voicing techniques I’m using in this clip (clusters, shapes, voicings in the texture, symmetrical diminished shapes, reharm, six note voicings, voicings with upper structure triads, linear movement,…) are discussed and shown via examples in my book “Voicings Concepts for the Jazz Vibist”.

What came first, the chicken or the egg?

Piper 17 March 2018

What came first, the chicken or the egg? or ... what came first, the melody or the scale? In a scientific world, the scale was certainly here first. It was always here. Partials derived from the harmonic series and placed in a row is not a creation of man but an existing entity just waiting to be discovered. Humanity's discovery of scales and modes evolved as artists made new melodies and found order that spoke a language of expressiveness. As a result of their exploring, learning and constructing melodies, patterns and similarities were revealed.

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