International Jazz Day: an appropriate day for an enjoyable Skype lesson with percussion teacher Odd Kyrre Alsvik and students at The Arctic University in Tromso, Norway. The lesson topics focused on the fulcrum grip, dampening techniques and solo playing on Body & Soul. Technology has definitely opened up new and wonderful possibilities for music education.

In this video you can see a transcription of a Milt Jackson solo on the »La Ronde Suite«, composed by John Lewis as recorded by the »Modern Jazz Quartet« in Jan. 1955. The »La Ronde Suite« has four movements. Each movement features one of the instruments of the quartet. The vibraphone is featured in part 3.

hey,
not too much vibes in it but i thought i post it anyway.caught from our last gig with the zappa cover band called dangerous kitchen. we recorded the whole gig so if you want there´s more to come :)
it´s so much fun to play in this band.i would love to play mallets there but there´s already a great guy doing this job.

the band is:

Holger Auer – vocals
Martin Lelgemann – keyboards
Jörg Eschrig – guitar, backing vocals
Daniel Neustadt – bass
Michael Koball – vibes & marimba, backing vocals
Guido Montag – trumpet
Ferdinand Rexforth – saxophones
Romel Stoica – trombone

Enjoy !

Hey All,
Hard to believe, it's five years since Good Vibes, the first and only broadcast program to feature the vibraphone, first went on the air.

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Easy commute today on the way into Boston so I had some practice time before a lesson. In this clip I'm playing Horace Silver's classic ballad Peace. One of the techniques that I was thinking about was playing counterpuntal lines in different registers of the instrument along with the use of various dampening techniques.

My apologies for the bad sound. It was recorded on my Iphone.