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Invitation Practice Tapes Oct 09 by Tony Miceli - Practice Tapes
tonymiceli
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Thought I'd post one of many invitation takes. Including the ones I trashed I've probably done about 200 takes.
15 years 1 month ago - 1 comments
The Black Mercedes by Mike Balter
tonymiceli
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This is a funny one. Just a side note. I talk with Mike about once a week, and I tell you he's a great guy and a very kind soul. There are many Mike Balter stories about great acts of kindness. I feel really lucky to know him and hang…
15 years 1 month ago - 3 comments
Any Ideas Where This is From?
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What kind of music do you think they're playing? Where are they? Any Ideas
15 years 1 month ago - 17 comments
My Foolish Heart (practice) by BarryK
BarryK
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I was listening to Pandora.com and heard Bobby Hutcherson play "My Foolish Heart". Nice. I went right to Amazon and downloaded it. I practiced it over the past couple of nights and recorded it. Still needs work, but I felt like posting…
12 years 11 months ago - 7 comments
We ARE SAVED!! THE INSTRUMENT IS SAVED. THE BAND HAS ARRIVED
tonymiceli
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They are the Dodo's and they have vibes in their band. And btw the Stevens grip will be the grip of the future. We can all rest now. It's over. It will stop hurting soon and we will be able to hold our heads up high and proclaim 'I PLAY…
15 years 1 month ago - 17 comments
Caught Up in My Own Lesson! -V
tonymiceli
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Well, when I make up these lessons, they usually leave me with a lot to practice. I've been playing probably a few hundred versions of Invitation over the last few weeks. It's a difficult tune to play solo. And I'm busting my ass on it,…
7 months ago - 0 comments
All the Things You are by Christos Rafalides
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Here is another video of Manhattan Vibes. I really love this intro he plays on All the Things. Well it's actually a really quick solo version of he whole tune in 7/8. The rest of the video is more of a compilation of different parts of…
12 years 11 months ago - 2 comments
Alone Together by Tony Miceli (practicing technique)
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I found this file from a few months ago. I was talking to a student about practicing but not practicing. Made me think of our talk here on the site about practicing. I will just play tunes to work on anything, technical stuff, form stuff…
13 years ago - 18 comments
Wayne Shorter, a banjo and a tuba
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No Vibes, but I have never heard anything like this before...
15 years 1 month ago - 5 comments
Blind Jazz Musicians
Marie-Noëlle
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As some of you know, I work in an association for blind peole. Our neighbour is a school for blind teenagers where I sometimes go to attend "lunch break gigs". So I was really happy when Steve and Gary started talking about blind mallet…
15 years 1 month ago - 12 comments
Solar by David Friedman & Philippe Macé
tonymiceli
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Meeting in Paris, David Friedman - marimba, Jean-Charles Richard - sax soprano, Philippe Macé - vibraphone
13 years ago - 3 comments
Invitation Lesson 3 by Tony Miceli
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If I had to sum this lesson up in one sentence: Play the melody in all keys. Also in a lesson, I would ask you to tell me things about the melody. I do some of that here in this lesson.
15 years 1 month ago - 1 comments
Smudge by Dan McCarthy
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13 years ago - 11 comments
Stella Pivot Chords by Tony Miceli
tjaco
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Here is a version of Stella I found in my itunes. NO, it's not me playing, it's Tony ofcourse! Man another amazing version. I don't think this is on the site here yet, and I hope you don't mind me posting this, Tony? I think it's great!…
15 years 1 month ago - 2 comments
Breaking Up the Hands
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15 years 1 month ago - 5 comments
Available In Blue by Joe Locke & Force of Four
tonymiceli
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Here's a great video of Joe playing 'Available in Blue'. A beautiful tune!
12 years 11 months ago - 16 comments
David Friedman's Texas Hoedown
tonymiceli
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Here's a good performance of David Friedman's new etude 'Texas Hoedown'. I'll buy and send a copy to the first two people who want it and agree to learn it and post a video within 2 months of their performance. (Must be a subscriber)
15 years 1 month ago - 2 comments
Have you Met Miss Jones Duo - pt 1 by Tony Miceli
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Here's my accompaniment to "Have You Met Miss Jones". Play along and post if you want! If you can put the files together then upload the duet.
15 years 1 month ago - 0 comments
Invitation Lesson 2 by Tony Miceli
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When you practice part 2 of the Invitation lesson, you're also working on: Invitation, Cherokee, Laura, Speak Low (sort of), Minority.... can you think of any others?
15 years 1 month ago - 3 comments
Chord Melody for Beginners by Tony Miceli
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Here's some thoughts on chord-melodies. I was talking about these in a lesson and thought I'd pass them on to you. The challenge is for any person who's new to chord-melodies to record and post one. I'll also post some writting examples…
15 years 1 month ago - 0 comments
Blues Etude
wuestentrommler
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Hi there, I'm practicing the Blues Etude (link below) but I have a problem to analyze bar 35. The chord on beat 4 is a bII9, a substitute dominant, right? But what function is a f d bflat a c on beat 1 - 3 in measure 35? Any help, please?…
15 years 1 month ago - 5 comments
Accordion in Jazz and World Music – A serious matter
Marie-Noëlle
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A cliché Tony pointed out inspired me on this post: "Accordion is old fashion. People make easily fun of it". Like most people, I used to think so… up to the day I met some French masters. With Gary we talked about Astor Piazzola and…
15 years 1 month ago - 9 comments
Blue Bossa 3 by Tjaco Oostdijk
tjaco
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Here's another one from my archives. Blue Bossa. Here I'm playing a bossa/latin pattern and even go into double time. TJ
13 years ago - 7 comments
Competition is Good? Just maybe?
tonymiceli
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We've talked about competition on the site for a while now. There are people in both camps. I'm in the middle but not against competition. However like always I'm thinking of everyone on the site and their opinions and thinking about my…
15 years 1 month ago - 72 comments
All Blues Ideas by Tjaco Oostdijk
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Ok, and yet another one... This file I found is called: 'All Blues Ideas'. Apparently it is something I recorded a while ago and was A recording with some arranging ideas for All Blues. This mainly focusus on some groove ideas. I tend to…
13 years ago - 6 comments
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