It's Christmas season, or Hanukkah/Kwanza/Solstice season (not trying to start the war on Christmas, though!). What are your favorite jazz Christmas albums?

A few that I like

GRP Christmas- Various artists (including Gary)
Crescent City Christmas Card- Wynton Marsalis
Oscar Peterson Christmas- Oscar Peterson, obviously
then of course
Charlie Brown Christmas- Vince Guraldi

What about YOU!?

last week concert in duet with the amazing violin player Alexandra Soumm!
the piece is called Rumania rumania.

Check out the attached PDF's. Play through the examples. Can you hear it? Make Sense?

I want you guys to hear Grant Beiner's story. You talk about a musical entrepreneur. Grant is amazing and he's vibesworkshop's official case maker.

Grant tell us, Who is Grant Beiner?

No vibes here in Houston. It is 75 degrees here, though...

I am practicing Greensleeves.

I have been practicing improvising arpeggios to the A section to help me internalize the changes. In the recording, I started out with the arpeggios, then played a straight 4-mallet arrangement. The arpeggios are not to the meter since the changes occur too quickly.

Here is my work-in-progress from tonight's practice (without reading).

Barry

New video format! I was getting sick of the old one, haha!

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A rough mix of one of my tunes entitled Fresh Biscuits.
Rusty

https://soundcloud.com/rusty-burge/fresh-biscuits

Just got my first paid gig at a bar/jazz club in Yardley, PA. The place is called The Vault, primarily a "brew pub" but they hire live jazz 3 nights a week. Playing on January 3rd as a duo with Justin Sekelewski on bass. Only one thing I'm unsure about....When I sent the guy at the Vault an email with my demo I never mentioned that I'm only 16...could this cause an issue???