Isn't Adrian the real first vibe player? Check this out. I wonder how old it is? And he's playing with 4 mallets and seems to be pretty good at it.

This is a great video!

this is the last track of our demo from "three of a kind"

don´t get bored ... another track from three of a kind

a little arrangement i wrote for besame mucho

this is the title song of the tv comedy show frazier "tossed salads and scrambled eggs" originally by gary burton.

since barryk requested the cd i thought i will post all of the tunes my trio recorded last year.

the band is called "three of a kind" and the line up is:

rainer vollmer - guitar
michael kehraus - double bass
tarik dosdogru - vibes

Rafael Meinhart is a student of David Friedman's. He wanted to work on technical things and asked what he should practice. David said write your own studies. So Rafael did. Check this one out. It's great!

I just did a simple lesson on this and here's this cat taking it to the extreme.

Check out David Friedman's new piece 'Bettina Dreams of the Garden of Elves'. It's an epic piece and we'll be selling it Feb. 1, 2010 in our new store www.store.jazzimprovonline.com.

And especially check out David's student Julius Heise. He's a great young player with a GREAT teacher!

Are you guys familiar with Lenny Tristano? He's the head of this whole subculture in music. A really interesting bop player. A monster! His lines were incredible.

He's a guy worth checking out although there's not a ton out by him.

A few guys were in that 'school' of thought and one was Warne Marsh. Here's a Warne Marsh excercise.

Just a reminder not to spend an inordinate amount of time on technique, and to think of musical ways to practice technique. After all the goal is to make music. That should be part of your practice routine! There are ways to incorporate technical practice in a musical way!

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