Hey all,

Excited about this hit tomorrow at Mezzrow in NYC. I’ll be joined by Bob DeVos on guitar and Steve LaSpina on bass. Our sets are at 7:30pm (est) and 9pm. Hope to see you there, or you can stream it here!

Behn

I'm interested if anyone knows about the history of dampening -- who did it, who didn't, who was the first to do it, etc. After watching lots of videos of great vibraphonists, I can see Milt Jackson did it quite a bit, especially on ballads (probably part of why his phrasing is so incredible), and pretty much every vibes player today I looked at does it to some extent (Tony+David obviously, but also Stefon, Warren, etc.), but I can't find videos where Lionel Hampton or Terry Gibbs do. Not a value judgement at all, I'm just interested in seeing how dampening has developed.

I am working on "O Grande Amor". Here is a version with a bunch of choruses using iReal Pro.

Barry

This is a video of the Charlie Kunz band featuring Teddy Brown. It's cool to watch just to see teddy. 

But go to 10:22 and watch the vibe player. He dampens with his finger. Why? I think because there was not pedal on the vibraphone. 

That blew me away. Am I right? 

Hey all,

The lesson offer is still on but with a small change; complete any two etudes from the blues or rhythm changes etudes I've posted and I will do a free 30 minute lesson. So if you want to do one of the blues etudes and one of the rhythm changes, you can get the lesson. Must be a decent version of each though :)

Hope to see some posts!

This was great and fun. I played Terry's big band charts with his LA Dream Band. What incredible musicians! 

I did practice playing these tunes every day for a month. LA cats are great readers and great players, so I had to really practice! 

This was a great gig. On this video I am playing his tunes with his son on drums. Tom Rainer on Clarinet and Bill Cullen on piano. 

Getting your time together can be an enormous amount of work. Well, at least for me it is and I'm still working on it. 

With this etude, you have to play it with your right foot OFF the pedal and tapping on 2 and 4. Not your left foot but your right foot.

I don't write the chords in because I want you guys to print this stuff out and really study it. I feel like I'm handing it to you if I write the chords in. I believe you need to do the active work and try very hard to see how all this is connect.