Richard posted this very recent gig exerpt on his FB... We didn't know him as harmonica player did we?! Beautiful rendition of this Metheny tune I wanted to share with you... Lovely feel!
Oh man... Beautiful!!!
Check these guys out if you're around. Should be great. They are incredible musicians. Just going to be EVI and Sax for this.
Concert will be live and online here:
Made you look.
The point I wanted to bring up is how do we make a living on this instrument? Who out there has made a living playing the vibes? Or was making a living and then got a 'real' job (as my mother used to say). What are your thoughts?
What are some ideas for graduating percussionists who really want to make a living out of playing jazz?? It is almost graduation time?
Have I brought this up already?
I was just thinking about this, on another post, talking about swinging.
A great musician told me, 'The only people who really know if you're a great player is everyone else but you. It's not your decision to make that'.
I play so often and am just not sure if I played a good solo or not, I try not to be judgemental.... I try. So many times I think I sucked and others including the band thought the opposite. Were they being nice to me? Or am I wrong.
I love this. Check out how the guitar player is comping and imagine comping like that behind someones solo. I'm working with a great latin percussionist so I'm learning a ton about the music (again). I've been checking out Changui music which I think means "beginning". Am I right? Any latinos out there?
I just think here's another way to comp. Just a single line.
I play a lot of Bach on my own, but I hardly ever perform it. I decided to put some out there to force myself to really work something up. I am constantly amazed by this music and how every voice is so interesting. Hopefully I did it justice.
I'm toying around with the idea of doing a TOTM Skype workshop this Saturday. Maybe around noon U.S. EDT?
This would be an experiment. I could handle 3 or 4 people on skype. We could spend an hour working on the tune. Anyone interested?
Just putting feelers out there. Nothing is definite yet. You'd need skype. I'll do video and audio, you don't have to do video on your end.
Here is a vibe player(Thomas Dobler)who uses several piano licks on vibes.
There are some interesting things happening here I think.
I'm sure the pros will have more insightful comments.
-Todd