There's 2 weeks a year, where I just can't keep up. This is them. Between spring gigs, teaching rehearsing, I fall behind on vibesworkhop. But it's over soon and I have a bunch of lessons based on Darn That Dream, so we'll keep it going for a bit. That means Behn has to thinking of stuff! He's been posting a lot.

That's life, huh? Better to be busy then not! I leave a blog like this every spring semester every year and here it is!! But I'm almost done!

Hello everyone,
In this practise I wrote a solo and I tried to approach the chord tones of the chords. Then, I continue creating my own solo based on that.
Hope you like it!

Dimitris

This is a short excerpt from a concert with guitarist Dan Faehnle. Also Bobby Floyd on organ, Tony Franklin on drums and myself on vibes. This was a fun night!

Hope everyone is well in vibe land.
Best,
Rusty

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Today was the first day of the Workshop in the near of Warsaw in Poland. It is unbelievable beatuifull here! (We say its like the shire in lord of the rings)
David, Robert (a student of david) and I, drove this morning with the train from Berlin to warsaw and now we had a great first evening here with elwira and Gabrielle (the marimba duo who organised the workshop).
I'm very exited for the next days, because robert and I are the only studentes here!!!! :D 3 teachers two students.

Here is a picture of the concert hall where we practised this evening.

Hey,
This is yesterday's take, which I post with little frustration I must admit. You see this has a few little mistakes. (for me, more experienced players will maybe think different. But try to look through my glasses).

It is proven again that 'a performance' is no mathematics. You see, yesterday, (so this take) my energy was good, and I had the feel a little magic happened. So I figured. Let's do it again tomorrow, but without those little mistakes.
Hell no. Small detail. Today was not yesterday, and my playing was OK, but somehow it didn't have the same feeling I liked.

Practicing Smog Eyes (Lennie Tristano) - There will never be another you (Harry Warren) trying to expand harmony with different extensions, triads and creating new cycles between the chords.