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Vibes are booming in France as anywhere else in the world. Classically educated guys like Frank Tortiller are establishing new standards. I really dig this. Do you ?
11 years 11 months ago - 11 comments
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Here's a track from "EARMIX" wih Daniel Humair, Drums. Marvin Stamm, trumpet and Sebastian Boisseau, bass. I kind of forgot about this project, probably because I wasn't crazy about the results. The whole album was more or less free, with…
12 years 6 months ago - 10 comments
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I believe there is a very interesting fundamental difference between improvising "lines" and improvising "melodies". What do you think? Is there a discussion here?
13 years ago - 18 comments
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On my last visit to the Royal Academy of Music in London, some of the students had prepared things for me which they'd acquired or learned from Vibes Workshop (2 of the students did a duo arrangement of "Sword of Whispers, including Dana…
13 years ago - 7 comments
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Man am I excited! First Joe Locke then Terry Gibbs, NOW GARY! Detroit doesn't get many big name vibists coming to town so every chance I get to see one of the greats I don't pass it up. I had the opportunity to meet Joe when he played with…
13 years ago - 4 comments
M-48
tonymiceli
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What's with the m-48. I hung with vibist Tom Beckham last night and I couldn't believe he had the same experience as me. When I play my m-48 I have to move it around my floor to get it into a spot where the dampening will work. He does the…
13 years ago - 17 comments
College?
ntvito
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I'm a junior in high school and I want to focus on playing jazz vibes in college. But iv heard there are a good amount of vibes players who studied something else in college... percussion, or piano, etc along with vibes. If I could do…
13 years ago - 31 comments
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- Nick Mancini: vibes - Matt Clohesy: bass - Take Toryama:drums If you guys don't know yet Nick Mancini, you'd better change this now! My opinion is simple: very few vibists speak soooo clear to me. Word! That's quite amazing! Though he's…
13 years ago - 13 comments
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hi, this was the best "one take" of that song i could do before my holidays.still some wrong notes but i would call that my final version.thank god i´m no calssical musician where i have to play always EXACTLY what´s written. it´s tricky…
12 years 6 months ago - 3 comments
Who is Babu?
Marie-Noëlle
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Wouldn't it be cool to get back to our old tradition: the "Who is" posts? If you want to know what a "Who is" is and read some of them, they are all here:http://www.vibesworkshop.com/book/who-book/tonymiceli/031309 So my question today is…
13 years ago - 14 comments
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Here's a great clip from the 2010 workshop in Delaware. I thought it would be interesting to some of you guys.
13 years ago - 2 comments
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| Today is the official release date of Joe Locke's latest album in trio with long time partners and friends pianist Geoffrey Keezer and saxophonist Tim Garland. I've had the chance to listen to it and man this is beautiful! No bass or…
13 years ago - 6 comments
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I think we might go overboard sometimes by suggesting that there is only one legitimate improvisational language in music and it comes from Bebop/blues/jazz. We tend to require some historical quote from the "jazz language" or it is…
13 years ago - 15 comments
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I recorded Fried Ban. this morning, did about about ten takes until I got one that sounded OK to me, and when I finished, I realized that all the time my two mics had been above the drum set, where I put them yesterday. So the vibes sound…
13 years ago - 4 comments
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hey everybody, few weeks ago i heard this tune wonderful (and much much better than me) played on youtube. i was blown away by the composition of david and the performance of course too. to me it´s one of the best solo vibes pieces i ever…
12 years 6 months ago - 5 comments
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Gary Burton was one person of 3 - the other 2 being Dave Samuels and Milt Jackson, who inspired me to start playing vibes at age 17. I listened to all of Gary's records way back then and learned the tunes by ear...recently (thanks to VW) I…
12 years 4 months ago - 3 comments
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Photo by Jeroen de Rijk
13 years ago - 3 comments
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Hello, I've read on another vibraphone forum that silicone is the best material for bar post insulators. One posting suggested the following specs for the tubing. Has anyone on this forum used tubing of this specification for a Musser M75…
13 years ago - 0 comments
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Suggestions are welcome! Joe
12 years 6 months ago - 2 comments
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I tried to add some dynamics to make it a little more interesting. That being said, it's not note perfect (but it's pretty close!). Criticism is welcome as always! Joe
12 years 6 months ago - 6 comments
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Which one are you and why? I'm a 2 and 4 guy, but today I was messing around with 1 and 3 and digging it and seeing the possibilities.
13 years ago - 12 comments
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Hi, I think I'm going to sell my beautiful vibes. I'm moving back to North America and and trying to reduce the amount of stuff I need to ship. Was tuned and relaqured a few years back by Gilberto. It has a couple weird things (motor…
13 years ago - 3 comments
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12 years 6 months ago - 1 comments
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From FB, I came across a piece of music with a vibist I didn't know: Karl Berger. This piece was... well a bit too much for me... Still curious, I went to Youtube and found this totally different piece with same vibist... Beautiful all the…
12 years 5 months ago - 6 comments
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Some weeks ago Tony posted the first movement from Bach's violin sonata 1. It reminded me (again!) of how wonderful those pieces sound on vibes as well as violin. The clip I'm posting here was done quite a number of years ago. Because it…
13 years ago - 3 comments
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