I play in a band called Monkadelphia and we're making a new CD. This is one of the tracks that most likely will not go on the cd because it's on our last one. Although I want to put it on this one also. The last one was actually a melody.

What I like about this tune and the way we're playing it is that this is one of those tunes where you could just go out and play 'anything'. We all really attempted to play on the changes.

I started working on One Note Samba by Jobim. I am happy with my arrangement of the A section, but the bridge is 8th note scales and sounds thin. On the first note, I play root/5th to fill it out a little (where the 5th is the first note of the melody), but from then on it is single notes. Is that OK? Any other ideas?

Thanks,
Barry

John Brought this video up in another Warren video I just posted.

Check this out. This is a cool video. Warren is on the street, jamming. 2 mallets and he plays like he's on stage somewhere.

I think the playing is really good, and I'm floored by how he uses the 2 mallets. I dig this guy!

I think this is a good track! I dig players that have and lived through the old school and are also trying the new stuff. the combination of it is really cool.

I also dig the showman stuff. He plays and looks at the audience and smiles, neither of things i do on stage. So this is pretty cool to me.

Another bablafon player. I love listening to this and hearing the kids in the background. Folk music is really cool. Ultimately it's what music is really about right?

Mike Balter's Joke of the Week.

Restricting your options is a great way to get freed up on the vibes.

I'm looking through some of these posts, looking at the replies, seeing the depth of some of these discussions and just flipping out.

Here we're talking about Musser models and there's all this feedback and then Gary chimes in with an in depth reply about the M-55 and the M-48. This is incredible!

I was just excited about all that and thought I would post my excitement.

man it must have been an interesting time when jazz got onto pop-culture tv!