Check out Justin Faulkner. He's 18 years old and plays like he's 40 and has already played all over the world.

This is Philly to me. His feel is so happening. He swings his ass of and he's so musical.

He's on his way to Berklee, so look out Boston. He's already playing with Branford.

I was lucky to play with him right before he left for school.

I think of him as the new Ari Honeg. To me he plays at that level.

Feeling Groovy

Let's do another vibe hang!

Who want's to play? Let's get some new people!! Come on!

We're going to time Mike Pinto setting up his vibes. He says he can do it in 8 minutes. I say he's a liar.

Watch here

Dont know if you are aware that a real book for IPhone or ITouch is now available for all you jazzers, comes in handy if one cant remember some of the changes as it only displays changes avoiding copyright infringement,it also has a handy applic for transposing, check it out

irealbook.net/

John

Maybe not a very good title but I can't help it. I've been starting up my practice routine for 2 days now and started transcribing a steve Nelson solo on 'Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me'. It's Blowing me away!! I posted a part of his solo on But Beautiful on the same cd 'Full Nelon' a while ago(see check this out) and the thing that really blows me away is his timing. It really reminds me of Milt, weaving through the changes and swinging like hell.

Early Music on the Vibes. This is great playing!!

One of my favorite therapists, partly because she was cute and a large part because she was GREAT, taught me a big thing about music.

I remembered it today on my walk. I used to(still do a little) take all my problems and NOT solve them and then wrap them up into one big global problem. We used to unwrap them together. It was a great experience to see all your problems unraveled and then to realize that if you solved a bunch of them this big huge problem would usually go away. Which ones I used to ask her, should I solve. She'd say any of them.

Long time ago since the last entry.

The glockenspiel is now fully in production and will be our first instrument that can be sold from stock. It turned out a killer instrument, I guess it's the only glock out there to play jazz vibes on ;-)

In the meantime we've also started and are now completing the new entry level vanderPlas Baileo vibe.
This 3 octave vibe uses the glockenspiel frame design and production method which is a very efficient method.

Hey everyone, I know we have a few philly area vibes players and I thought i'd let you know i'll be playing at Chris' Jazz cafe this thursday at 8pm.
the group will be trio...vibes, bass, drums.

should be a fun philly hang, hope to see some of you!

Ok, so download this file below. Burn all the tracks to a CD or put them on your ipod. Then set to shuffle. Listen and play the note back. Use the pause button if you need to. This should be a daily thing for a bout 5 or 10 minutes most days of the week!

This will help you get to know your instrument and work on your ears.

Try it and let me know what you think of it.