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"The King (for T.M.)"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnrxeO6PpDM

Jazz Baltica 2007

Hi!

I just bought a vinyl copy of the album "We get requests" by the Oskar Peterson Trio. I know this record since I was a teenager and for me the solo OP plays here is one of the finest jazz solos ever recorded. OP uses rather few notes, has a perfect phrasing and creates an tremendous "dramatic arc" over the solo and takes it to almost "reliefing" climax. And yet another aspect is the bass by Ray Brown and the drums by Ed Thigpen that faciliate and support the solo so well.

We have a podcast up on itunes called Percussion Geeks. It sort of helps the vibe cause, our website cause and more. I would love it if any of you guys could go over and put up a review. Do any of you subscribe to the podcast?

This link will take you directly there. http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=289736…

If any of you have video that would fit this format, i can include it. Even audio. Just as long as it pertains to being a Percussion Geek!

I'm just sitting here listening to the 'Procrastinator' and I realized that most of the cd's I've bought recently have come from the cd library here. I don't do much in the library, it's mostly Tjaco and Patty I think.

They have turned me on to great stuff that I didn't have. I can't believe that I never bought the Procrasinator! Also the Jackie Mclean cd's with Bobby H.

Really cool. Any of you other guys that want to put your recommendations in I can set you up. Especially Paps. You've seen him around and he's a walking musical encyclopedia.

Tony recently pointed out a great article about the vibraphone on NPR. That’s something we are all concerned about: to get more people to know about this too uncommon instrument.

For this new post, Ladies and Gentlemen, let me introduce you London based vibraphonist Roger Beaujolais! Here is a video he recorded for the internet music channel "MusFlashTV". What I like in this sample, is the approach of the instrument: at a time basic, complete and concrete.

I was replacing the threshold on one of my exterior doors. Took the threshold out of the package. It was aluminum, so I'm thinking, hmmmm, what's the pitch? I can really use a low-E. Uhh, no, but I have the start to making a Gyil. lol

In case you ever wanted to know what a 36 inch aluminum door threshold sounds like, I've enclosed a sample.

Barry

Well as I'm watching all my gigs slow up in this awful economy, I'm wondering how I'm going to handle this and hang on until things pick back up.

Then I was reading 'Pet Owners' Quarterly and I saw an article that's about to change my life I think. There's a demand for turtle models and actors. Apparently the Ninja turtles are going to make a comeback.

So I began training my new pets that my wife brought home to make a few bucks and help out around the house.