I've been listening to the great pianist Art Tatum for the past few weeks while commuting to Boston to teach at Berklee. I hadn't listened to Tatum for quite awhile. I listened to all of the tracks from the Solo Masterpieces. Still unbelievable playing and fresh. The refined touch, sound, fluidity, harmonic richness, reharm, chromaticism within the harmony, the stride and 10ths in the left hand, ...there's so much in each track. Anyways, here's a little nod to Art Tatum with this rendition of Duke Ellington's great composition "In A Sentimental Mood".

Hey everyone!

It's been ages since I last posted something on the site!

Surely some of you will recognize Jenny, a German vibist from the Wuppertal school from The Spring Vibes workshops of the past few years: she was in Paris for a few days... and guess: we could meet and share a nice pique nique near on the grace my work in Paris... near the Invalides Dome! :)

We had some great time with one of her friend who nicely took this picture!

A must see for all vibe players!

Here are my groovin High Lessons.

I've posted the main audio which contains Groovin High Melody and a Chord Study (2 separate pdfs)

Then you a quarter note solo (no audio) and a syncopated study in 3rds (pdf and audio).

If you're a beginner do the following:

1. Play the melody, then follow it with the quarter note study and then take the melody out.
2. Fill in the chords on the quarter note solo etude
3. Post 2 recordings of Groovin high from Youtube that you like.

If you're intermediate:

There's an etude here in here called "Line Etude for First Half." For extra credit, create a 2nd half for it :)

Peace - a beautiful ballad by pianist Horace Silver

aloha ..

sharing his amazing night of music with you all .. over the last couple months I've been working with the great percussionist from spyro gyra Gerardo Velez .. he invited me to be featured on his 2nd night at the blue note in hawaii .. we performed afro blue.. i did a little intro upfront before the band kicked in ,, the axe i used for the gig was the Malletkat double marimba sound ... bring quick setup and awesome for small stages ..

Mahalo

aloha VW

i hope everyone is safe and in good positive Vibe rations....

Joe locke recently posted an great article from a keyboard article that was based on concepts with the Minor penatonic scale.

using the Cmin pentatonic C Eb F G Bb this scale can be used over the following chords .. Cm7 Dbmaj7 Fsus7 and Aalt7 i made a play along progression based on these chords and improvised over them using this scale ..

the progression is Aalt7 / Dbmaj7/ Fsus7/ Cmin7...

fun stuff .. how to work this into all 12 keys

Posting two of these lines counts for one assignment :)