Vibraphone

Hello everyone, videoclips have just been uploaded to my new Jazz Improvisation channel on YT. More clips related to jazz improv concepts as addressed in The Complete Guide To Improvisation will be added soon. Concepts in the book include Chord Tone Soloing, Tension Resolution, Chord Scale Theory, Chord Scale Application & Practices and Harmonic Practices.

I had an amazing and busy summer.

I can inform all of you including Gary Burton and Dave Friedman who talked about the demise of the vibraphone that it is still out there and strong. Sure not like a guitar, but it's there and WE are all having an effect on that.

You guys along with me are playing and talking about the instrument and we're making a difference. I think the instrument has grown a lot in the last 7 years. I am so psyched by what I've seen this summer.

Hauke was is essen and i was lucky that he asked me to jam at my house. he´s a great guy and such a great great player already. we had fun and i switched on the cam for 2 tunes.
tony, we both agreed that this was just possible because you and your work made people meeting each other...thanks for that man!

tarik

Hey guys, I've been working hard this week to sort through and post all the videos from last week.
So without further adieu, here's 28 videos (about 3 hrs. total)
from the 2014 Summer Vibraphone Workshop at the University of Delaware.

This playlist features a lot of playing from the participants of the camp (the whole concert is up there),
and there's also some great footage of the guest artists that came through, including:

-Behn Gillece
-Tyler Blanton
-Steve Shapiro
-Tony Miceli (-ok he's not a guest)
-Anthony Smith
-Harvey Price
-Warren Wolf

For the fourth year in a row, I spent a week in Newark for the summer vibes workshop at the University of Delaware. You’d think I’d be sick of it by now, but with different teachers and participants each time there is always something new. Here are some highlights:

It's been an incredible but exhausting summer. I have about 3 weeks left and I'll be back in full force on the site!

I get to travel a lot this summer, however some of the plane delays and cancellations have been terrible and did not make things fun!

I can't wait to get back to practicing and doing lessons!

Very Soon!

Behn Gillece - Vibes
Anthony Smith - Piano
Matt Parrish - Bass

Another clip from Berklee Percussion Week concert with Billy, Mark and Steve. One of my favorite Jobim compositions.

Well, we are very close to migrate to a new site. We have spent hundreds of hours on this. There's only two of us behind this and this has been brutal.

The new site will let you watch video on your iphone and it will also resize for the iphone, so it will be easier to read on all devices.

Now you can put the phone on the stand and watch the lesson!

Please be patient with us, the migration will be hard. Although my partner expects it to be easy and there be no problems, I'm to jaded to buy into that!

In the end the new site will be great!!!!