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ok, still positive. the plan is coming together. Or is there a hot chick behind the camera...
13 years 8 months ago - 0 comments
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So tell me how you found the vibraphone? Here's my abridged version. I played classical guitar growing up and was very serious about it. I also played drums and then picked up piano as a teen. I almost went to school for piano, but some…
13 years 8 months ago - 23 comments
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This is a nice and cool version of my bossa-ballad "Calm Down" (recorded "live in Berlin", 2006), played by the musical fellows and friends of my brazilian jazz group BRAZILIAN EXPERIENCE from NYC. Gustavo Bergalli - trumpet Klaus Mueller…
12 years 4 months ago - 8 comments
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Cop It!
13 years 8 months ago - 1 comments
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A true legend!
13 years 8 months ago - 4 comments
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This is a little over the top! Clave, bell pattern and montuno. jeeeeez.
12 years 4 months ago - 14 comments
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Guys, I've been given this link by my guitarist friend Bernard after I shared the recent Clark Terry vid... This French band is too good!! FYI, on xylphone vibist Jean-Miche Davis. (pass it on! :o) Enjoy! - M
13 years 8 months ago - 1 comments
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I'm here working on some forms I have to fill out and have Pandora playing a John Adams Station I made. All of sudden this marimba comes on and it's beautiful and articulate and stops me dead in my tracks. It's Evelyn Glennie and I just go…
13 years 8 months ago - 2 comments
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Cop This Groove! Go ahead cop it. I dare you!
12 years 10 months ago - 10 comments
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Hello everyone, Just wanted to let you know about the upcoming Percussion Festival at Berklee College of Music in Boston. The festival will start on Monday, June 21st and end on Friday, June 25th. There are several tracks that we will have…
13 years 8 months ago - 6 comments
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We will get together in the morning at about 9:30 until 12, then about 1 until 3 or 4. We can probably work out practicing in the evening with John. We'll have a bass player I think every day. The catch is this: My plane comes in Sunday at…
13 years 8 months ago - 1 comments
My Punishment
tonymiceli
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I posted about transcribing some MJQ and hearing mistakes in the recording and feeling a little funny about it. This is one of my favorite groups, but I was complaining a little bit! My punishment was that the video - 'Modern Jazz Quartet…
13 years 8 months ago - 4 comments
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11 years 9 months ago - 1 comments
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Here's a version of the Monk tune 4 in 1. I'm going to write up a chord melody etude of what I play on the head.
12 years 2 months ago - 22 comments
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Jeez, probably not the kind of drummer we want on a jazz gig? Did I post this already?
13 years 8 months ago - 7 comments
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Hi everyone, Here's an article which will be in the upcoming July issue of the Percussive Arts Society magazine Percussive Notes. The article is titled "The Healing" and details the recording session of Depth of Emotion which featured…
12 years 3 months ago - 6 comments
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My first wife was an actress who did a lot of mime. This brought back some trauma. (Don't tell her I said that)
13 years 8 months ago - 5 comments
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Here's the website. No Content is added yet, I just bought the domain, made the layout, set up the buttons so far. http://www.joeporteronline.com/ Tell me what you think, Joe
13 years 8 months ago - 9 comments
Pt. 8 - Stella
tonymiceli
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This lesson talks about 4 mallet chord tone solos over Stella. This is a great way to work on your chords and voicings.
13 years 8 months ago - 2 comments
Pt. 5 - Stella
tonymiceli
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Creating lines over Stella.
12 years 7 months ago - 1 comments
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So I'm transcribing some MJQ. I remember (I think) Gary Burton talked about them not being good readers. Ok. I'm taking down the tune 'Don't Stop This Train'. It's a sort of fugue. Well I've found 2 mistakes and I think they cut out a John…
13 years 8 months ago - 10 comments
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I've been emailing with magicescalator and talking with him. We were talking about how he came to the instrument and more. So I thought we'd do a Who Is so you guys could meet him. magicescalator, just add a new comment here and tell about…
13 years 8 months ago - 5 comments
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I gave a lesson earlier today to my student Chris (who just joined the website!) on reading out of the Omni book. One of the things I was trying to get him to do was to keep going no matter what happens. Tony's post on Chi Chi got me…
12 years 4 months ago - 14 comments
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I've been working on this tune for a couple days. Last night I had a chance to play it on a gig. I decided to go ahead to record and then post it to see what kind of feedback y'all might send my direction. I hope you all dig it!
12 years 4 months ago - 3 comments
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Here's a very very quick lesson. Just winding up the night here. Was practicing for a while working out some stuff. The point of this lesson: Don't think twice about figuring out ways to start a solo, or some things you might try and play…
12 years 10 months ago - 1 comments
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