There's a great bunch of players from the Delaware workshop! And here they say hello!
Hey everyone!
It's officially today! It already had a few months of existence as beta site, but on August 1st 2008, Vibesworkshop was officially open!
I got into the users list, and found that at that date, there were already around 20 members! (today we are... 1382!!) Among them -appart from Tony and his partner Stephen- we can see:
- Tjaco,
- Barry,
- John Daly,
- Behn Gellice,
- Gilbranimo,
- Alan Watt (amazing Alan from this year Ireland workshop!),
- Jinwoo (our Korea very silent member!)
A few others would follow soon, like:
- Bruce Wells,
- Tony Fontana,
hi!
I just realised that the vibes have one more advantage beside the cool sound, the cool attitude, the excluiveness and the fact that vibesplayers get all the chicks: you can play it with a baby wrap! no way of doing this with a guitar!
So folks get youself a set of vibes - the chick and eventually an offsping might follow BUT you can still play!
Cheers Stefan
BTW its a boy named Louis, born 9.7.2010
Check out 13 year old guitarist Andreas Varady. He's amazing.
Hang for the whole vid if you can, because the second tune we do is Giant Steps and he tears it up!
Earlier this year my wife decided that it was time to get a master's degree so we sat down and looked at a few places. We visited the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. The faculty that evaluated her audition were gracious enough to admit her into the program. She is a great player!
Last week we made the epic road trip from Muncie, IN to Vancouver, BC. I've been emailing people in the area about finding a job, playing gigs, and teaching gigs.
Man about what we did this summer. We got 7 vibe players to come to Ireland and work on the vibes. We have 17 (19? I forget) vibe players coming to the University of Delaware and we're rounding up about 15 sets of vibes and a bunch of marimbas. Oh man!!!
I figured when I started this that if we could all come together and work hard together that we could really make some cool things happen. I always think that the better we get the better it is for the instrument. It's a cool instrument to start with and when we play it well it's cooler!
Hey guys,
Here's a clip of an old classic tune called "Sweet Lorraine" which has been recorded by such pianists Art Tatum, Teddy Wilson and Nat King Cole as well as sung by Frank Sinatra and many other vocalists.
The tune has quite a bit of changes including many extended dominants. There's some nice guide tone lines throughout the changes. I try to bring those out either in the left hand comping on in the line.
Thursday is our unofficial anniversary celebration! I will try and stream as much as possible, including the Vibe Hang. I will also try to stream David's afternoon workshop for everyone to see.
It's unofficial because I was going to talk it up this week, but no, our server crashed!!
Let's see what I can do this week to talk it up.
Every body is welcome to come Thursday to the University of Delaware For Our Open House. It starts around 2pm.
Take the day off of work and practicing and drive down, come meet, David Friedman, me, Behn Gillece, Mike Pinto, Randy Sutin, all the attendees at the workshop and everyone else who comes!!
Beautiful! Simply beautiful! :o)