Interesting because we've been talking about playing solo.
Denny is also a psychiatrist and a great pianist. He wrote the tune in the Real Book 'Quiet Now'.
This time I hope to get some feed back for as you know Jazz has been my life. I will be 86 yrs old October 13th and I am still trying to find different things to play on songs that I have been playing all my life (Not Easy). Now what I am…
Hi everybody. It's been a long time, I know. I went into hibernation for a couple of months in order to study that book by Hal Galper, Forward Motion. I did some artwork (pastels, a real cool hobby)as well and so I lost touch with all of…
Here is another track from the trio gig I did recently. Hope you like it. Oh yeah, I have video of this, but for now my computer can't handle video editing. So I'll post that later. Then you'll see my mind was somewhere else in the intro…
Two things of note here; one being that Spain is being played incessantly all over the world and continues to show world appeal, and two, the girls are still coming. Watch out fellas, there are more playing vibes and marimba then you want…
Ok, my computer could just manage to edit this video.
This is a backstage view from an opera I play in at the moment. Vibes and Drums.
So what I do here is the big(or one of) switch!
this is what I do in just a matter of seconds....
-…
So I was thinking of making some sort of chord etude and I thought, why don't I just comp through a tune. Then if you're working on comping you could learn this etude and analyze it.
So I took the changes to 'I Loves You Porgy' and comped…
Here is a lick Tony showed me at our last lesson. We were talking about minor blues and connecting chords with scales. Learning this lick in all keys is a cool way to get a feel for putting different scales together in a cohesive line.…
Who's Coming to the Ireland workshop? Please fill out the registration form now
WE'RE ONLY TAKING ABOUT 5 VIBE PLAYERS FOR THIS WORKSHOP AND WE'RE AT 4 NOW SO REGISTER SOON!
Who's Coming to the Delaware Workshop?
Re-Opened! University of…
Amazon.com Widgets
I decided to try a listening club again. I'm curious who's interested in it.
The rules are whatever we make of them, however I think whoever is interested should give the CD a few good listens and then post their…
This is an arrangement of the head of "Round Midnight" I've been playing for a few years. I threw it on the computer today after the live concert to try and win the Monk Play Along book. Hope you like it! (This is my first upload so I…
