Hi everyone, here is the link to my music theatre website, we're in the midst of creating a new website, but there is some good (and relevant) stuff on this one.Of interest to anyone who digs the traditions of comedie del arte/clown/mime styles

http://www.loonmusic.co.uk/
and photos-
http://www.flickr.com/photos/northernstage/sets/72157623175783273/

"Sunset Road", a composition by Mike Caruso, performed by my group, the MetroWest Jazz Project at a gig on Friday, 23-July-2010. In addition to me, Mike is playing bass, Brett Baker on guitar and Bruce Hanahan on drums.

Enjoy -- comments appreciated.

Tom P.

Check this out! What a treat to come home to this in my inbox. David Friedman playing Milestones.

This is the old Milestones. Do you know the story? There are 2 Milestones and this one came first. The modal one that we all know came second.

I love watching David play. Check out his right hand, how he swings and how he throws in the chords. This is a great study for all of us!

What a great week I had. What a pleasure getting to meet players from all over the world. This was incredible for me!

First off, let me thank John Daly. Without John this wouldn't be possible. You know Ireland is an amazing place to me. People are helpful and totally down to Earth. John is at the top of the list. He's incredible, I've never really met anyone quite like him. This workshop would not happen without his energy. I was also talking to someone in the workshop who said that the Limerick jazz scene has John to thank as well. He's a mover and shaker!

I had a truly great time at the Ireland workshop - Tony is a master vibraphonist and definitely a missionary preaching the gospel of jazz! I certainly learned a lot from him as well as the other players at the workshop. No man is an island and it is vital to be able to connect with other players in order to grow and mature as a musician. It was quite a blast meeting other mallet players from all across Europe!

I thought I'd try recording a video of stride playing Ive been working on. But I cannot get any audio on the iMovie.

I use the iSight camera in the iMac and iMovie.

I can see the input level working fine. But it does not record.
Any help would be appreciated.

thanks

I just got back from Tony's course in Ireland and I want to take a minute to write about the experience.

Here's the second piece I recorded today.

This piece seems really hard for me on this vibraphone. I think I'm going to try to record this at my school whenever I get a chance to go there within the next month.

As requested a video of my old jenco vibraphone. I really like the sound on this old beast. It is extremely challenging to play a piece like this on it however because the bars are so tiny.

Other than mallets what do I need to bring to the workshop in Delaware? Real Book? Manuscript paper? I thought I would put this up as a blog entry in case anyone else coming to the Delaware workshop was wondering too?