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Ruth Underwood - Zappa's early mallet player

Here's an interesting interview of Ruth Underwood, the early Zappa mallet player (with Zappa's son too). I love the passionate way she speaks of the music, the composer and the development of the instrument to large bands and "loud modern" music. Btw, I didn't know Zappa was originally a percusionnist! And not more that Chester Thompson had worked with him!
Enjoy!
- M
PS: more on Youtube from this link.

Gady Lehavi

Hearing a post of Tony with the young guitarist Andreas Vorady made me remember this video of young (13 years old at that time) pianist Gady Lehavi playing Autumn Leaves with Dave Liebman. What's incredible is his maturity in harmony. Enjoy !

Canaro en Paris by Martin Ghersa

Here is traditional tango very weel played by an authentic argentin player. He is 34 years old, and he plays with a lot of bands in Buenos Aires, some of them new tango (Piazzolla and his musical's sons). Perfect tecnician, and for me the real tango feel (length of the notes, accentuation, lyricism, etc...). He has many albums, and many Youtube videos with this duo.
Hope you enjoy !
http://www.youtube.com/user/mghersa
http://martinghersa.bandcamp.com/