Today I was running an errand at lunch that took me off of my normal beaten path and past Alan Dawson's old neighborhood in Lexington, MA. That started some reminiscing that I thought would be good to share.

Here is a song by Manos Hatzidakis in 10/8. I recorded it as a gift for my mother who recently had a birthday. So that I didn't spend forever making this present, I tried to keep the arrangements really simple.

Dana Sudborough: vibes, marimba, kanjira

Hi all,

I was checking our newbies, and saw this guy from Perugia: Fabrizio Fratepietro. I thought: wow, Perugia, one of the European capitals of jazz!

He had the good idea to put his myspace link. I went there and listened to the first sample...

Wow! I thought we were right in the discussion "Competition Part 2": that's quite modern hip music, groovy, with vibes, trumpet, etc… and that cool vibraphone comping and even solo. And there are lyrics sang as a rap (huh?) and the guy sings in a perfect French (huh?!). And guess what is the subject of this first tune: clones! Haha! :o)

Now that we've added the glockenspiels to our product range, it is time to expand our diversity of ads.

My goal was to get at least some humor in the ad campaign and for the glockenspiel get rid of the dusty image, but keep the ad appealing to the market it is for. Also the eVibe now that it has been upgraded needed an ad.
With the acoustic models we still have the nice Joe Locke ad, so there is no need to change here.

My own version of " my one and only love ".

The arrangement of the chords are inspired of "Chord Study Based one My One And Only Love" by Tony. (thanks a lot for the lessons online!)
I would like to improvise and playing the chords on the same time, but I find it's very difficult for the moment.
Ideally, I would like to play this tune in duet vibes-bass or in trio vibes-bass-drums, (so without guit!) if I can play the chords all the time...

I have to play this tune with a band, in December, for the end of the session at the University. I have to play 4 others tunes
Oléo

I posted some stories about not so great students, recently. So of course I've been remembering things about my teaching and playing career. One aspect of my teaching and performing career was in prison. I was in prison(s) for about 8 years with my vibraphone!

I spent the day, getting a 7 part series together on intros and endings! This is certainly something every vibe player struggles with at some point in his journey. I don't consider myself great at intros and endings, but I've worked on them.

The series will come up every 2 days with a new episode for the next 14 days! So you can spend the next 2 weeks thinking about intros and endings and practicing them!

This is great. David is a deep cat. I love his playing!

Hmmm...

About a week ago, I thought oh man, what's tj up to. He seemed a little over the top and a little too gun ho.

You know as the cat who runs the site, you have to be really careful about things, what you say and what you do. Something as many of you know, I'm not good at. There's been a couple times when I've wanted to hit the block button on a user, or pull something down. I bet some of you have wanted to ban me!! Ha Ha, but you can't! :-)

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