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Every once in a while I go and count the members on the site. We are getting near 1000 vibe players. OH MAN. Could you imagine if we could all get together. 1000 of us in the same room. That's amazing to me. Isn't it??

So I wanted to make a request. If we all sent out 5 emails to some mallet players that might not know about the site, we might hit the 1000 mark before the new year.

If you are at a music school, could you put up a flyer getting people to sign up?

I"m thinking about all this talk about mallets and sound. So I was wondering how we would classify different peoples sound? I don't mean in a negative way.

I'm listening to Steve Nelson right now, Mike Dirubo's new cd. Ed mentioned glassy, that's definitely glassy.

I dug Ed's duet with Liebman. More round sound right? His new mallets. Who else has a round sound? Samuels right?

Elio Villafranca - Piano
Grant Stewart - Sax
Tony Miceli - Vibes
Luques Curtis - Bass
John Davis - Drums

Hello fellow vibists,

Here’s a version of Green Dolphin Street with Dave Liebman, Matt Wilson and David Clark and me. The head in and out is pretty loose, but in the whole scheme of things and vibe of the performance, it seems to work OK.

More from Elio's band. We're doing these for promo so I figured I'll post them here as well!

Thought this might be of interest to check out Tjader. Photos and photos of cd covers.

Elio Villafranca - Piano
Grant Stewart - Sax
Tony Miceli - Vibes
Luques Curtis - Bass
John Davis - Drums

For the "veterans" of thevibe.net, do you remember Polish born vibist Les Blachut? I have a good memory of a pleasant and funny guy, his six mallets theory (and practice!) and of that fun picture of him holding 8 mallets! Ha! :o)

He recently contacted me through Facebook: what a good surprise! I saw that he is here as member, but too busy to participate (so far)… between his work and his… twin babies! ;o)

Gary playing some Piazzola! He gets house on his solo!!!! Great solo!

Here's the next tune for the Tune of the week series.

I saw Barry's post and thought it would be nice to do Mood Indigo this week.

Try to do a version like Barry did, so playing block chords. Voice the melody with four voices. If I have time, I'll make a video lesson on block chords. I think Tony has a lot of video's where he talks about this and also the drop 2 lessons by Dana are also a study in block chords.

I'm pretty busy this week, but I'm still gonna try to do as much as I can.

CU

TJ