The great tenor saxophonist Donny McCaslin sitting in with the Electric trio from a show earlier this year. Donny was in the house and I made him come up and play. So burnin!
Also Ari Hoenig on drums, Sam Minaie on bass and myself on Malletkat.
Recently I entered a poetry contest asking what one thing I would change in the world. Here's my entry; I think you'll all appreciate it!
http://www.powerpoetry.org/poems/vibra-what#.U0gJSYnmTF4.facebook
I play the vibraphone.
The xylophone?
The vibraphone.
The vibra-what?
The vibraphone.
Not the xylophone?
The vibraphone!
These are the words I tend to say more than the notes I get to play
Each night while standing on a stage making music by ear or chords on a page
On a page glued into that one big book, between Y and W where we look
Hello Everyone!
POINT TWO - CD release concert
Thursday, April 17th, Nuyorican Poets Cafe in NYC, (Lower East Side).
sets @ 9:30 & 11
236 East 3rdStreet, NYC
(btw B and C Avenues)
http://www.nuyorican.org
Christos Rafalides, vibraphone
Petros Klampanis bass, loops and vocals.
We'll present music from our new release - which is available on itunes & CDbaby
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/point-two/id831687889
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/christosrafalidespetrosk
REACTIONS TO THE ALBUM
THIS IS IN PROGRESS, MORE INFO IS COMING
July 28th-August 2rd, 2014
8 am until midnight, ALL VIBES, ALL DAY!
Dave Samuels, Tony Miceli, Mario Diciutis, Behn Gillece, Christos Rafalides
We will have a busy summer this year spread some vibraphone love!
I was called to play a solo on a record by my friend Wolfgang Loos, who produced two solo records of mine,Air Sculpture' and my new solo CD, 'Weaving through Motion'. I knew the music would be interesting and challenging so I decided to bring the Omega vibraphone to the studio for it's maiden voyage outside of the Jazz Institute and maybe the first time for an Omega vibe in a studio situation. I was a bit nervous. My son Jeremy had just adjusted the dampening mechanism exactly to my taste and I was quite taken with the results. But then the studio was another thing.
Finishing up this long series using 6 note scales with an intervallic idea.
I like playing this tune because the melody sits at the upper end of the vibes, which gives you lots of room down below to put your accompaniment. The syncopated rhythms provide a nice momentum too, and the familiar chord changes are a lot of fun to improvise on,
