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Play a Great Standard in 1 Month - Body & Soul - Week 2 by Behn Gillece
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🎵 Play A Great Standard In One Month – Body & Soul – Week 2Last week, we began our study of "Body and Soul" by developing a practical set of voicings through the entire form in the traditional key of D♭ major.Our focus was on finding…
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Warren Wolf — 'Sushi' with the Peter Beets Trio (Keystone Korner Baltimore)
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Warren Wolf sits in with the Peter Beets Trio on 'Sushi,' recorded at Keystone Korner Baltimore. Recent clip, Wolf in fine form.
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Lionel Hampton — Full Concert, North Sea Jazz Festival 1994
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Lionel Hampton's full concert at the 1994 North Sea Jazz Festival with his Golden Men of Jazz — Junior Mance, Benny Golson, Al Grey, Clark Terry, and Harry 'Sweets' Edison. Hampton was 86 and still at the top of his swing; a full set worth…
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Maj 7ths and 9ths Circle of 4ths 60bpm
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Vibraphone, weird-sounding speaker
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Dave Samuels - Bemsha Swing (Berklee, 2009)
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Dave Samuels plays Monk's "Bemsha Swing" with his trio at the 2009 Berklee Percussion Festival. A strong performance to study for his harmonic choices and phrasing.
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Bobby Hutcherson – Jitterbug Waltz, JazzBaltica 2007
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Bobby Hutcherson Quartet plays Jitterbug Waltz at JazzBaltica 2007, with Joe Gilman, Dwayne Burno, and Eddie Marshall. Worth studying for his comping and solo phrasing in 3/4.
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Stefon Harris: There are no mistakes on the bandstand
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Stefon Harris's TED talk "There are no mistakes on the bandstand" — playing through examples with his quartet, he shows a wrong note is only a mistake if you don't react to it. A listening lesson worth every improviser's time.
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Dave Samuels interview (Yamaha)
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Dave Samuels plays and talks about how he got started in jazz, plus his Yamaha vibraphone setup. Short interview, worth a look.
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Joe Locke – Sword Of Whispers (solo vibraphone)
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Joe Locke's solo vibraphone version of his tune "Sword Of Whispers". Sheet music is available on his site if you want to study it.
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Play a Great Standard in 1 Month - Body & Soul - Week 1 by Behn Gillece
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🎵 Play A Great Standard In One Month – Body & Soul – Week 1Welcome to the next installment of Play A Great Standard In One Month!After spending two full series exploring blues and rhythm changes, we've moved into a new phase of our…
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David Friedman, "Darn that Dream" (lower-register voicings)
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David Friedman demonstrates his lower-register voicings on "Darn that Dream". Worth close study of his four-mallet harmonic approach.
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Gary Burton — The Sunset Bell (1966)
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Gary Burton with the Stan Getz Quartet in 1966 — his vibraphone solo on "The Sunset Bell," the tune he made his own, captured by the BBC at the London School of Economics. A clear look at the four-mallet style he was building that year.
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The Practice Club is Starting Up
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Here's the link for the practice club invite.https://discord.gg/CTx6wv8PH?event=1557784898096599182 Our first class is Oct 18th, 1pm Eastern U.S.If you are serious about playing the vibes join us! It's free as long as you do the work…
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Warren Wolf — "I Can't Get Started" (Frankfurt Radio Big Band)
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Warren Wolf featured with the Frankfurt Radio Big Band on "I Can't Get Started," recorded January 2025 in Frankfurt. Worth studying for how he projects the vibraphone through a full big band.
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Play a Great Standard in 1 Month - Stella - Week 4 by Behn Gillece
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🎵 Play A Great Standard In One Month – Stella – Week 4Last week, we worked through a full chorus of "Stella By Starlight" using clear, relatively simple melodic ideas. The goal was to hear the harmony through basic scale and chord tones…
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Comping Under Tony's Solo
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A solo that Tony played that I comped under (or over, I guess)
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So What
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So What - head; transcribed solo; improvised solo; headAudio is from iReal Pro
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15 week course lesson 3
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OK, slowly crawling my way through the lessons.  Slow but steady wins the race, right?  :)Friedman 3 https://youtu.be/A5dHhQmdFYQ and Friedman 4 https://youtu.be/y0qv0KSj4P8Diminished chords open and closed https://youtu.be/…
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Play a Great Standard in 1 Month - Stella - Week 3 by Behn Gillece
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🎵 Play A Great Standard In One Month – Stella – Week 3Over the past two weeks, we've been developing our approach to "Stella By Starlight" through voicings and chord melody.Week 1 established our harmonic foundation, while Week 2 explored…
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Play A Great Standard in 1 Month - Stella - Week 2 by Behn Gillece
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🎵 Play A Great Standard In One Month – Stella – Week 2Last week, we began our study of "Stella By Starlight" by developing a practical set of voicings through the entire form.This week, we're taking those voicings and putting them into a…
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Simple blues solo
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This is an exercise of blues solo. One chorus written using chord tones on the beats, and (mostly) blues scale and bebop dominant scale tones as passing notes.
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Circle of Fourths w/ Maj 7 Min 7 and Dom 7 Chords
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Circle of 4ths with various chord types. 
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Friedman Dampening Etude 4
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Friedman 4
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Friedman Dampening Etude 3
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Friedman 3 slow
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Friedman Dampening Etude 2
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Friedman 2 slow
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