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Duet with Joe Locke & Martial Solal (Umbria 2008)

Hi again,

I'm just back from our hang, and in the middle of it I got a message from Umbria Jazz Festival (Italy) alerting me about a new very very fresh video of Joe!

I knew Joe was to play a duet with amazing french pianist Martial Solal (FYI, MS is 81 years old, and 20 in his fingers!). I had asked and they very nicely sent me an email with weblink!

Here is a sample of that gig, which took place today at 4 p.m. western Europe time... which is... some 5 hours ago!

Don't they both look like kids in a playground?!!

Enjoy! :o)

Questions on "modes"

Ok, I've always had a problem understanding modes. I'm doing some self study using Mark Harrison's "Contemporary Music Theroy" level one. From this I've derived the following:

Ionian - starting in the 1st degree of the scale
Dorian - starting on the 2nd degree of the scale
Phygrian - starting on the 3rd degree of the scale
Lydian - starting on the 4th degree of the scale
Mixolydian - starting on the 5th degree of the scale
Aeolian - starting on the 6th degree of the scale
Locrian - starting on the 7th degree of the scale

The Peacock by Joe Locke

Oh man!

I just found the freshest news from one of Joe's very recent performances at Umbria (Italy). This video was just posted today. The gig can only be one or two days old! There's Bob Cranshaw on double bass (!), Joe Labarbera on drums and surely Dado Moroni on piano...

Oh man! Isn't that great! A postcard from Italy! :o)

PS: enjoy, but get ready, the vid is "inhumanly" cut! :o( Never mind! It's beautiful!

What's the future of this instrument?

I had a great talk with Ed via email. We talked about whether the vibraphone was on it's last leg or not.

I won't go into our conversation yet, because I'd like to hear what you guys have to say first.

I waited for New Years day to post this. What's the future of the instrument? How do we save it? Can it be saved? Is it fine and I'm just trying to create hype? Is it truly a babe magnet???

2 Great CDs

I've been listening to Wagner's 'Tristan and Isolde' and Charlie Haden's new cd 'Ramblin' Boy' and they've been blowing me away.

Sometimes leaving your universe and going to another is such a good thing.

Flash Player troubles

Hi everybody!

This is just a hint: since the last Windows XP home security update plus the update to Flash Player 10.0.12.36 the videos on Youtube (embedded in vibesworkshop or not) did not work anymore plus the controls for the MP3's embedded here didn't work.

So I checked out the ADOBE site and found the article about the registry settigs (see: http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=fb1634cb&slic…).

I followed ALL the instructions and after installing Flashplayer again and restarting the computer it worked again.