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Thoughts from last weekend's coffee hour since we have a week off...

The producer I am working with to create soundtracks for his mini-series has become one of my favorite teachers. He is not a musician, nor does he even play an instrument formally. His relationship to music comes from his understanding of how it provides the setting and colorations of the on-screen events in movies.

Good VIbes Radio Update April 2021

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Hi Everyone,
April is Jazz Appreciation Month. It's great to have a whole month, not just a day, but I know you and I appreciate jazz all year. In this month's show I share many of the ways listeners can show they care. If you know others I haven't mentioned, let me know. But first you have to listen to the show, right?

I'll Remember April - Carolyn's mini concert

Since I wasn't part of the livestream for the "I'll Remember April" pop-up class, I recorded my own mini concert. I primarily worked on two styles of this tune over these weeks, a ballad and a Latin-inspired version.

In this video I play both styles back to back (Latin starts around 3:48). There's lots more I'd like to work on (such as improving my bebop vocabulary for soloing), but overall I'm happy with the progress I made on this tune during this pop-up class series.

V6 - frame including twistable flaps

I think this is my last frame design. It now fulfills all my wishes and ideas. Besides the new, additional folding method, I am very happy that I managed to realize the twistable flaps in the frames without any restrictions on the folding versions.
It was a long development process until the twisting flaps also achieved good stability.

A corresponding flap version as a conversion kit for Musser M55 is in progress and close to completion.

Whisper Not

Here a little video made with a friend who is resuming contrabass playing after a 30 years break...
This is an important step for me because during my whole jazz life i always played with drummers. It's quite different to play without and i had to work somewhat hard to get tunes down in a reasonable way... One more time, thanks to WWWvibesworkshop.com for the all sorts of help during all thoses years...
Critics welcomed, enjoy if possible...