Who is vibraman?
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HERE'S VIBRAMAN'S REPLY
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in my case its really simple to tell.
I emailed Teddy tonight and invited him to the site. I hope he takes my offer to be our guest. It would be great to get his insight on this instrument!
Keep your fingers crossed.
Here's some of the Teddy Charles talk on the site.
If you find that I missed something please post it in the comments with the title 'Update Teddy Charles' and I'll add to this.
There's a been a lot of talk on the site centering around Tango and Gary Burton. Gary has posted a few comments about all this.
So I've organized some of it here in one place. Check the links out above.
If I've missed anything, please post in the comments below and I'll update all this.
Reading the posts about Teddy Charles reminded me of my own relatively short but equally intense time of study with this great jazz iconoclast and master vibes player. When I was at Juilliard in the 60's, my teacher, Morris Goldenberg, decided at one point that it would be more appropriate for me to study with another teacher. I was already getting into jazz vibraphone and Moe was mainly a studio xylophone-percussion player. Don't get me wrong, he was great at what he did but he recognized that I needed something else that he couldn't give me, so what did he do?
Thanks everybody for the birthday greeting. I was touched and would have hugged every one of you(especially Tony and Joe! Thanks guys!!!) had we been within arms reach. It was a difficult birthday because I was in Barcelona for a workshop which I had to cancel because I got the flu on the 2nd day! So I spent 4 days in Bed, flew back to Berlin, saw Tony's email and checked out the site! That really cheered me up!!!
Best to all of you!
David
those solos look like some serious practice is coming by (again...)
I have the secret wish that Gary may have the time to say a word about it.
If anyone knows them and want to give me some advices, I'll be glad !
Here's the next tune I thought we'd check out and study.
Ed Saindon's 'Life's Blessing'. I asked Ed if he would make a solo recording to get us started. Hopefully he will. Regardless let's all start checking this tune out and talking about it and practicing it like we did with Joe Locke's tune 'Sword of Whisper'.
Maybe Phillipe could make the play along!!!
So download the tune and start working on it. I'm sure Ed will give us a hand and talk about it. Maybe he'd even do an audio lesson for us?
Here we go!
I am still working on Sword of Whispers. I am internalizing it a bit more but my timing and hand independence could use some work. I was trying to keep a pulse in the left hand, using the rhythm of Vince Guaraldi's "Cast Your Fate to the Wind", which is syncopated like Joe's gentle intro in the lead sheet.
I started working on a solo version of "Spring is Here". I am finding it very difficult. I can't think of much to make it sound interesting or good. Any ideas?
I am arpeggiating with mallet 1 2 3 and melody in 4. I am also using drop 2 voicings on the ascending lines. Nothing cohesive yet. Just working on ideas.
It's originally a ballad. What do you think of making it a Bossa Nova or other style?