I did a series on the tune 'The End of a Beautiful Friendship'. Here's Milt playing the tune. Milt smokes the tune, but check out Monty. OH MY GOD!! And Clarke Terry tears it apart as well!

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This was being passed around by singers, they loved it for the harmony between the voices. Andy Williams and Connie Francis. They ARE right, this is really well done and the singing is right on the money.

Now personally I don't see it as corny, to me it's really beautiful. I wonder if some of you will. But get past that if you feel that way, and listen to the harmony in the voices. I think we strive as vibe players to make inner lines that are beautiful and rich.

I played with our site bass player today, Mark Pryzbalowski and we named our favorite tune which for both of us in Shenandoah (mine always changes, but this one is always way up their).

So here it is. There's a suprise in the tune, and Easter Egg as computer programmers say.

I played with our official site bass player today and we recorded a couple tunes. I thought I'd post them. Mark is a great guy and a great player and a great friend! We get together as often as we can and play and work on stuff. Check out Mark!

A robotic vibraphone!!

I did a study of this tune over the last several days with some specific things in mind. Here's what I did and here are some practice tape versions of the tune.

1. I fell in love with the tune
2. Downloaded Tony Bennet singing it. Ahhhhh
3. Watched youtube versions of the tune, listening to the guitar and melody, etc.
4. Learned the tune
5. Tried to make a solo version where I captured as much of the rhythmic element as possible. I'm on my simple kick so I tried to play bare minimum and focus on the time and rhythm. In head I kept thinking of the surdo.