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Had a little time today between classes and ran through Chick's composition "Desert Air". Chick and Gary recorded a brilliant version on their debut recording "Crystal Silence", one of my favorite recordings. I remember seeing Gary play this solo during the 70s at a club in Boston called The Jazz Workshop. It was spectacular. This is a great but tough tune with odd bar phrasing and unusual chord progressions and modulations.

Hello all!
I hope we are doing well and making great music with our vibraphones!

Please see the description in the video regarding the clip segments. Ed

aloha VW

i hope everyone is safe and in good positive Vibe rations....

Joe locke recently posted an great article from a keyboard article that was based on concepts with the Minor penatonic scale.

using the Cmin pentatonic C Eb F G Bb this scale can be used over the following chords .. Cm7 Dbmaj7 Fsus7 and Aalt7 i made a play along progression based on these chords and improvised over them using this scale ..

the progression is Aalt7 / Dbmaj7/ Fsus7/ Cmin7...

fun stuff .. how to work this into all 12 keys

Trio exceptional, quality of recording, belissima musica (IMHO) Enjoy !

Improvising on the B Minor Double (Sonata II) from Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for Violin Solo. One of my favorite books of music from Bach which is perfect for vibists. Fun and great practice improvising over the changes to classical pieces like this. Sometimes I'll do this with my students at Berklee. We'll select a piece of music, analyze the progression, write in the chord progression and begin to improvise.