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Hey guys, here's a clip of On The Sunny Side Of The Street from a recent gig with some nice players and friends. Lance Bryant on tenor, David Clark on bass and Jun Saito on drums. There are some loose spots here and there, but we had fun. No rehearsal, just call tunes on the gig type of thing. There are more clips that we'll be uploading as they are edited. Here's the link to my YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/edsaindon

Tony re-posted an older blog I wrote a couple of years ago about my experience sitting in with Bill Evans and with Milt. Reading it again reminded me that there are two more stories along this line worth telling.

Has anyone heard of Jeremy Kittel? He is a member of Turtle Island String Quartet. He's one of the best fiddle players I have ever heard. His other group (Jeremy Kittel Band) came to Columbia Friday for a concert. I was blown away. Below is a link of his arrangement of Hendrix's 'Hey Joe'. I will let the music do the rest of the talking for how incredible this guy is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMNZEOslvl4

This video shows part of what keeps me from practicing my beloved melodic minor scales and tunes for the jazz-ensemble class as well as the tunes for the jams with my buddies outside of that and let alone logging onto this site for months. The mission of the job is to give 59x 45min interactive concerts for school kids presenting "percussion". Criteria for accepting this:
- I feel more valuable, if I work and I want to work.

I like this tune by Wayne Shorter, love the way he keeps it simple but at the same time keeps you on your toes, I have made some mistakes but I wanted to post anyway I have not done an outro so it breaks after 3 choruses, comments are welcome
What is the best software to use to fade out etc...?

John

David's music is on my laptop that I travel with, so whenever I travel, I check him out. I dig this cat. He really plays great and interesting. If you guys get a moment check him out and let me know what you think.

I have a great idea for an article for PAS. What do you guys think?

The top 10 or 20 or 25 must have CDs for a vibe player. We would pick them and vote on them and write reviews on them. Every one who writes a short review would get credit.

But we'd have the must have CDs for young and up and coming vibe players.

just thinking out loud, what do you guys think?? And what do you think Ed?

I always thought that working on something harder than something else also helped making that other thing easier. I thought practicing in odd times would help me play in even times better. That was part of my motivation of learning odd times.

I think you should work out a few tunes and call them on gigs and try them out. Get used to playing in 5. I figured that playing 3 and 2 would help you're playing in three as well as playing in 5!

And odd times can be really fun and liberating. All of a sudden you're feeling comfortable in an odd time, that's a good feeling!

Since some of us probably play high a lot, I though this video might be interesting. I did a lot of drugs back in the day and played high a lot!

My favorite drug to play on was cocaine, but I did meth for a few years while I was in school. I also played on heroin. I had a lot of fun playing on heroin, but I kept getting fired off the gigs! So I was having fun and I thought I was playing great, but I probably I sucked!!

On cocaine I could practice and I could also hustle and get gigs really well. I had a lot of confidence!

Just in case: I'm coming to Europe for the vibesworkshop workshop at the vanderPlas factory. I just remembered that I can bring a MalletKat over and save one of you European mallet players a few hundred Euro.

I should have written this earlier but I forgot about this. If anyone is interested let me know ASAP and I'll check with Mario.