In the late summer of 1972 I was living in Lucern Switzerland. Actually barely exisiting is a better description. I only had about 68 of the original 132lbs I came with and was pratically starving. The tip of my belt hung below my knee. I must have looked horrible. But I digress...
Check out Ed performing.
Learn Ed's signature "Fulcrum Grip"
Learn another one of Ed's great pieces.
Check out some great comping and soloing from Ed on vibes and some other great musicians.
Look under 'Check This Out' for the link to the PDF of this lesson.
Joe Locke rockin' some Billy Joel and talking about choosing tunes.
Here's Behn's chord melody of Bye Bye Blackbird. The videos are coming, but meanwhile practice his chord melody.
Again I left the chord symbols out, you can put them in. That's your homework assignment. :-)
This is a great lesson. Just go through all the tunes you know see where you can put this. Pull out the real book, whatever!
Also check out Behn's comping. He plays really clear rhythms IMHO.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzCfoSJjkeY
I think it is very hip what Ty says here about playing, especially the part at the end about life experience.
That's his new quartet playing in the background. Germaine's tap dance is integrated into the music as a drum. She also sings, but when she is tapping, it's two drummers, bass and vibes. ..and the other drummer is Doc Gibbs, who is totally awesome!