I recently came across this album. It is amazing and unlike many things I have heard recently.

Unfortunately it's only on vinyl. But the album is on Youtube.

I think someone should tell Dave to get this on CD, I would definitely buy this.

And I plan to buy once I have a way to play vinyl.

Other solo marimba clips are up on my You Tube marimba channel and FB marimba page.

Video from a gig i did this past saturday ... first time playing with these guys ...

“Faraway”
Rusty Burge/Steve Allee
Reviewed by Anthony Smith

Hi everyone,
The July edition of Good Vibes airs on Sunday, July 5th. This month's three-by is Mike Mainieri,

A few months back Tyler Blanton suggested writing new melodies to standards as a way to get into a more compositional improvising approach. I wrote this tune over some alternate changes to Stella I came up with. But I think it works over the standard changes too.

(sorry for the bad piano playing!--vibe is unavailable at the moment)

Hey I thought this would be a cool way to introduce myself. My names Matt and im a philly/south jersey based trumpet player and I started picking up the vibes a few months ago and taking lessons with tony here and there. I recorded a chord melody to my romance and wanted to see if you guys had any suggestions.

Thanks!

This etude has similarities to the melody; see if you can find them :)

Excerpt of Chega from our local gig last Saturday night.