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National Science Foundation contacted me at the fire house in McMurdo Station and asked if I would put something together for International Jazz Day from Antarctica. This was at the end of my shift on 4/25. They said they needed two-and-a-half minutes of recorded music by the afternoon of 4/26. I got off work the morning of 4/26, went straight to the Chapel Of The Snows (where I keep my vibraphone and practice), got four volunteers from the firehouse to hold camera phones while I played.

Pattern 1, complete lesson on scrolling audio.

Matthieu Daudos is a French vibraphone player and a friend. We play together both marimba and vibraphone in the New Jazz Band Project which is a septet of percussion instruments based on Bordeaux area.

Applying the solo vibraphone technique of Dual Function LH over Rhythm Changes with Charlie Parker's composition "Anthroplogy". Gary Burton taught me this technique way back when I studied with him in the 70s at Berklee College of Music. I was revisiting this technique while working on my solo vibraphone book. It's a nice technique that allows us to play two handed lines while also keeping some left hand accompaniment going under the lines. Regarding the concept, we play lines between the two hands.

Improvising with Upper Structure Triads on “Have You Met Miss Jones” – I was working with a few of the students today on utilizing Upper Structure Triads along with one passing/approach note. The extra note can add more possibilities in creating lines as well as adding interesting notes and additional color. For example, the Db triad (with the b6), sounds the 9 and #9 over the Gb Maj 7th chord in the bridge. Most often using only the three notes of the triad can be very limiting. I uploaded the lead sheet along with the USTs that we were using today.