You guys know Illya Amar as a regular member here. You might not know Benoit Moerlen. He was in a famous french jazz rock band named "Gong" in the late 70s, playing mallets. For the story Benoit owns one of the very first MalletKats ever (S/N 00026!). By the magic of the internet and Face Book, we managed to meet in Paris yesterday for a great lunch break near my work... and another "traditional" picture in front of the Invalides Dome! Thanks guys for this good vibes moment! :o)

Hi All-

I've started a new band that explores Brazilian 'choro' tunes (pre-samba music somewhat akin to ragtime/New Orleans jazz) through the lenses of creative Brooklyn musicians who play a myriad of styles. This first video is my arrangement of 'Um a Zero,' an iconic tune of Pixinguiha's, which we infuse with a bit of 'downtown' energy and exploration.

Hello everyone,
This is an expert of one of my gigs in Holland.

Justin Van Uum: Ac. Bass
Dimitrios Kosmidis: Drums
Dimitris Angelakis: Vibraphone

Enjoy!

Dimitris

I'm calling this one "the chop buster". Warning: Not intended for horn players, haha!

I ordered a vibraphone two months ago, it had to be manufactured and might be the first of it's kind but the waiting is killing me. How long can it take?
I know...The bus gets here when it gets here!

hey,

here is another track for my vibes duo with sax i just finished mixing.
tell me what you think. in general i think ballads work best in that combination...unisono passages sound to me like there´s missing something...we need to work on that but that piece was composed that way.

tarik

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While Tony is out ‘spreading the good vibes’ down to Patagonia, some of us are much looking forward to the upcoming summer workshops, first July in Limerick – Ireland with our friend John Daly as host, then Delaware US early August.

Lessons this month are a bit out of our usual TOTMs, but still coming frequently… And to end this newsletter, we finally could watch some videos of our winter workshop of last February in Wuppertal – Germany, thanks to our host Matthias Goebel and his team.

Enjoy !

LESSONS:

* Tony Miceli:

I read with interest Tony's description of what he calls a "One Sheet" and realized that this was something I occasionally (certainly not always) do while studying a tune. I thought I'd post my version and see if others have similar variations on the "One Sheet" theme. I began doing this when I realized that, getting older, I would discover things on the vibes and then forget them by the time I came back for another practice. This was my way to organize my thoughts on a single "guide" page. Sometimes I spend more time figuring this stuff out on paper than actually practicing it....

Hi All
Recently I discovered what was advertised as a mid sixties Musser Century Vibraphone available in Carson City Nevada
(about 300 long miles from my home in the Bay Area) I had to make a hard decision (if I was going to make that long drive just to check out this instrument.) What I remember of these old instruments is that the bars are beautifully rich, loud, smooth and somehow different then newer Musser bars. My instrument has been a mid 70's A440 Provibe that I have always loved the sound of and that has been my sound on the vibraphone for 20 years.

In publicity a one sheet is a sheet that's only one page and has all your info packed on it. Then people extract whatever they need. So....

I always try to find parallels between other things. Since I'm playing chess again, I'm always thinking of the rules of chess and applying it to music. These are exercises I do when sitting around. Make associations between one thing and another.