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I have a suggestion: Since this isn't a teenage chat sight, or a lonely hearts,"Hope to meet someone nice" site, why don't we all go by our real names? I find it a bit irritating if I want to say something to a specific member, or answer a post, without having to check, "Am I writing to Vibraman, Vibraphoneman, vibratorman, or whatever. We're all serious musicians, right? What do you all say we drop the "chat" names and start fresh? What does everybody think?

i listned to ricky lee jones pop pop cd recently.it was one of my favorite cd long time ago and i didn´t hear it since 15 years.my one and only love is one of my favorite songs of it. so i tried to make my solo vibes version of it.as always it´s far away from perfect but videoing it helps me always for pratctice.
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This isn't anything absolutely spectacular... but I just became a 'fan' of Musser on Facebook and they had this video as a promotional thing and I hadn't seen it before. Another vibes player that I didn't know about.

James

Here is another video of my friend Andrei Pushkarev with violinist Gidon Kremer and his Kremerata.

This is Andrei's arrangement of Piazolla's Fuga y Misterio. Sounds good to me!

Enjoy,

James

This is a video of a classical vibes player (a friend of mine, actually) playing Bach. He studied with the same teacher I did in Ukraine and has virtually made a living playing Bach on the vibes... and a good living at that. He is currently touring with a Latvian violiinst Gidon Kremer, who is very big in Europe.

He plays 'jazz' as well... but it is a more 'planned out' jazz than what most of us strive for.

He has a couple other videos up on youtube but the quality isn't very good.

James

Hello everyone,

I just added several more videos to YouTube. The clips are from a gig (outside of Chicago) which took place on April 20th, 2009. The band features: Rodrigo Villanueva - drums, Doug Stone - soprano and tenor sax, John Tate upright bass and me on vibes. The list of tunes include: Black Orpheus Part 1 & 2 along with my compositions The Healing, The Last Goodbye, Deep Hearts and Pure Spirit.

This in an ebay listing for a 1920s Deagan Vibra-Harp. It was designed to be attached to an organ and is very different than today's instruments. The listing contains a lot of interesting information and many photos. It's worth a look.

Hello everyone,

I wanted to let you know that I just uploaded some new videos to YouTube. The videos are from my May 7th clinic and concert with Philippe Mace at the conservatory in Paris. Here's the link to my YouTube page which lists the videos: http://www.youtube.com/edsaindon

Here’s a list of what was just uploaded:

Clinic: Solo Vibraphone Playing, The Fulcrum Grip, Sticking Concepts for the Vibraphone, Dampening Techiques on the Vibraphone

Concert: My Funny Valentine (solo vibraphone), Invitation, Hope and The Days of Wine and Roses (Philippe on marimba and me on vibes)

Argentina Diary 2 (cont.)

Days 5 and 6

From a recent online concert.