Vibraphone

Hi Everyone,
In honor of Independence Day, July's Good Vibes will open and close with "America," the first from West Side Story (Cal Tjader), and the second from Mike Mainieri's CD Crescent, also known as "America, The Beautiful."
In between, lots of good stuff:
Cecilia Smith's arrangement of McCartney's "Blackbird" and an absolutely knock-your-socks off version of a traditional Civil War anthem. Hope you can tune in, July 1 and 4. See the following for times.

www.jazzon2.org
Good Vibes airs on the first Sunday of the month, 8-10 pm eastern time

Rusty just joined us on the site. I love his relaxed and swinging 2 mallet playing! Babu had already posted a video with him. This morning Patrice put this one on his Face Book Page. I can't resist sharing it with you! Man this tune is all except "sad"!! (triste) ;-) - Enjoy!

I hope I did OK. Feedback is welcome so I know on what to work.

greetings
Stefan

To make a very long story shorter, the past month of my life has been CRAZY trying to find a new place to live, and practicing has unfortunately fallen on the wayside in the process (but I've been working on Rhythm Changes when I can...I'll record and post my final sometime this weekend!).

Let's wrap up rhythm changes this week. Yeah??? I've worked so hard on them the last couple months.

Maybe we just move into the world of bebop and see where that takes us, via etudes and whatever else.

I just have to tell you guys. I have so much fun with a metronome. I know there are guys that don't think they are cool, but I love working with a metronome. It helps me so much to learn about time!

I just put it on 2 and 4 and play. I can feel my time waver a bit and I can see it's tendencies. I learn so much. Man, try learning a bebop head and then putting the metronome on 2 and 4. See where the accents are, the off beat phrases, etc. Try it out and let me know what you think!

I dig it!

I discovered this video thanks to Christos Rafalides. I always loved this piece written by Joe Locke, but had never heard it by anyone else but him, and never as a solo piece! It gives it another dimension! Congrats to the performer, Dan!