This is the pilot episode from the late fifties detective series Johnny Staccato, played by John Cassavetes. He's a former jazz pianist turned detective. At Waldo's, the bar he likes to frequent and sit in, there's another house band featuring a vibes player in the front line - played here by Red Norvo.

This is from the 1958 series Peter Gunn, where the house band in the series features Lola Albright on vocals and Victor Feldman on vibes. Note the interplay between Victor and Lola on this excellent "cool" rendition of "How High The Moon."

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The vibes players I found were Harvey Price, Stefon Harris, and Joe Roland

Open-Closed in F Major, LBGLW a minor/b minor7

Here matt.

so you have to practice it and post your version here since i did it for you :-).

can anyone beat him?

This is a demonstration/lesson about harmonizing the blues scale to create chord solos. I hear this a lot in piano players and big band writing. It can be a little tricky to move chords around on the vibes quickly, but it works pretty well using simple lines from the blues scale.

Attached are two pdfs, one of the demo I play at the beginning and the other of harmonizing possibilities for each chord. I would welcome your ideas/suggestions as I am still working on this concept.

Please see the attached assignment and do the 8 bar exercise at the end! I'll be checking again at the end of the week :)

If you're old enough, you probably remember back in the 80's when there was a popular advertising campaign for Windy's that coined the phrase "Where's the beef?" I've found that the current state of affairs in music has a relationship to that commercial - Where's the motif? Where's the melody?" "Where's the beef?