I am a sax player and want to start playing vibes; I'm having a hard time deciding what to buy. I'm fortunate in that a couple of thousand dollars either way doesn't make a huge difference to me if it means getting an instrument that…
I played a gig tonight where we played all Monk music. After the gig there was a jam session and some of the guys from the workshop came to the gig and sat. Here's a shot of the club and Dimitri getting ready to play a tune!
I listened to Tony's post and thought this was a fun idea. I thought the dominant #11 in the Take The A Train thing was a dead give away though! So I thought it may be really fun to try an obscure standard with less obvious chord motion…
Most of the tunes I try to write end up in the waste basket but this one avoided that fate and ended up on a CD I made a couple of years ago. Slow and bluesy, the melody in the bridge is similar to a tune by David Frishberg called "…
David Liebman is the man. I have heard lots of stories of him getting really dark with students, and who knows how true these claims are... but every time I have heard him speak on jazz or other topics he has been eloquent and polite. I…
Here's the next part of lesson three. This takes the chord from soloists to the next level, which we could call scale tone solos. :-)
For me when I look back over it with jazz, the further I go back I sort of see the system that we're…
This is incredible. Check out this frame. You take the legs off your old vibes and put your keybed on this inexpensive frame. I think this is going to cost around $400 or less.
Perfect for beat up instruments and beat up instruments in…
