Here's a Quick & Dirty recording from a gig at a supermarket. We are playing "Juliet-style", up on a balcony above the people as they shop below. I had a substitute bass player that day so we didn't play any of my originals.
Ross…
Steve Giordano (gt)
John Swana (tp)
Tony Miceli (vb)
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We'll play for a little bit and then I thought we'd talk about playing without a bass player and playing solo on our instruments for a little bit.
Some time ago we started a post about life and death of vibists. I just realised today that we missed talking about a loss: Belgian vibist Fats Sadi passed last February 20 at this age of 81 without us mentioning it here. I thought this…
At last, I found a video clip of Victor Feldman playing vibes! This is from an old TV program called Frankly Jazz. The first tune I don't know the name of, but it features Feldman on vibes, Jimmy Rowles on piano, Kenny Dennis on drums and…
originally i wanted to mail this video question to tony personal but it never made it to his mail address i don´t know why.so i thought who cares ... there are enough good players on the site who can help me out with this.
maybe some of…
The Bach English Suites make great duets for vibes and marimba, or guitar, or bass, etc. I've attached a pdf of the right hand part and an mp3 of the left hand. Work up the right hand part and play along with the mp3. It's a fun piece to…
Hey everyone, just got back from San Francisco last week, and I'm happy to say that my group with saxophonist Ken Fowser earned the Generations fellowship for 2009. There's a cool article about it, you can go here: http://www.…
Hi everyone,
I'll be giving a clinic and concert (co-sponsored by Vic Firth and Yamaha) at the Conservatory in Paris (18th District) on Thursday, May 7th starting at 7 P.M. The concert will feature mallet player Philippe Mace and me in a…
I wanted to address something that I have struggled with for a long time- attaching my self-esteem to my ability to play. I have always struggled with technique and regular practice habits, mainly due to the incessant self-flagellation I…
didn't i give you a bunch of things to work on? i don't see them.
friedman dampening and pedaling.
and lets do this. pick a tune that you know really well. memorized. play it for a few days and then let's do a skype lesson and talk about…
I just checked out Tony's myspace page and listened to him playing 4 and 1. That's some mighty fine vibin' there. Could you talk about that piece? If it's not here somewhere I think others would really enjoy it.
I transcribed this a while ago. I haven't played through it in a while but I think I had worked all the kinks out of the notation. Please let me know if you find errors. This solo comes from a Bruce Foreman album "Full Circle w/Bobby…
hey all ... its been a while since ive been able to check whats happening here out ... long story short .. i am currently moving to southern oregon. my wife and i found a farm in the country out side of the town she works in. This is…
