Hi Everyone,

I'm putting on another outdoor concert tonight (8/7 @ 7 pm) with my combo (vibes/guitar/bass/drums). This time we'll be streaming it live on YouTube at the link below:

https://youtu.be/vQGk1diUylA

Hope you can check it out!

Playing lines over “Stella By Starlight” with the inside mallets. Using an open spread and “digging in” with an up and down motion via the use of the fulcrum as with a two mallet player or drummer. For more information on the fulcrum grip, there are some YT clips on my channel that illustrate and discuss the concept. There is also a Wikipedia page on the grip.

I've been playing through a bunch of standards improvising solo vibes arrangements everyday recently, and realized I might as well record it. Although lockdown sucked in a lot of ways, it has REALLY gotten my solo playing together. Before it might've taken me a week of shedding to get a solo recording of this quality without any huge hiccups. But now I can just sit down and play. It is so freeing! And now, if I play in a band, I just have so much more confidence since I know I don't really need them. Anyone else notice this?

Susan is a great vibe player from Seattle. I've checked out her music for years now.

Look out for Chien Chien! I think she is coming up fast in the jazz world and the vibe world.

Here is a track with her and her band. It's a killer band;

Vibraphone: Chien Chien Lu
Piano: Shedrick Mitchell
Bass: Richie Goods
Drums: Janathan Barber

Concert sponsored by Taipei Economic and Culture Office in New York
Concert Co-sponsored by New Asia Chamber Music
Video: Yang-Lun Hsiao

Download the attached PDF for notation and general background.

Almost done with the whole book (which I have recorded and put up on this site and YouTube). Here is #22, one of the three jazz etudes.

I'm almost done recording the whole book, so here's one of the peskier ones I've been putting off recording.

'Whisper Magic' is a solo vibraphone piece that was composed a few years back and premiered at a duo concert with pianist Sergio Salvatore at New York's Carnegie Hall. Now I got the opportunity to work on a video for it and hope you enjoy it!
Music available at: http://manhattanvibes.com/sheet/whisper-magic