Vibraphone

Hi Everyone,
I'm hoping you are all safe and healthy and doing what you need to do to stay that way!
I'm filing May's show very early, trying to keep ahead and free up time to help my friend with her mask-making endeavors. She's makin' 'em good to look at, color-coordinated from cheery fabrics. Mine is Minnie Mouse and Michael's got Batman. Mine are going to be made with some wild and colorful African prints.

Hope you're all well and in good spirits out there. Just wanted to share this new video of a series of videos I'm producing from home entitled "Choro in My Apartment." I'm joined by my friend and Brazilian bad@ss pianist Helio Alves. It serves to document my love of Brazilian music, Coffee, and Brazilian Coffee

I was having a little more fun with this one and being less careful (read: it sounds worse)

Did I post this already? I don't think so.

Crazy and Interesting!

Vibist Challenge: Since we all have pretty much a lot of time on our hands, I’m posting a fairly simple challenge to my fellow vibists out there. Here it is: Take an improvised chorus on “All the Things You Are” and use the exact rhythms from the Ted Reed “Syncopation” book on page 37. This is a page that all of the students of Alan Dawson have worked on in various drum set applications with the great legendary educator. The solo should be spontaneously improvised (not worked out ahead of time or written out) and clearly sound the changes.

So next weekend how about...
Let's do mini concert on vibesworkshop.

April 11th. 2 or 3 tunes on video or audio, you just can't stop in between. Meaning the video or audio is not cut up. Makes us work hard on playing two or three tunes without stopping.

Who's in? Put your name in the comment section.

BTW - We are doing cool stuff on our Facebook VW page.
Every Saturday (Probably for a while), we're have online concerts.
Every Sunday (Probably for a while), we're having and online coffee house meeting with vibe players only!