And for some totally different news......
I'm going to be a father in Januari! Not really planned but totally welcome and I'm really excited!
So watch out you young vibe cats!
Cu
TJ
OMG!! Listen to Patrice!! He's swinging like hell with his 3 flying mallets and cheerful (and in tune) scatting!!! Go Patrice! They can't take that away from you!!! ;-) Keep it up! - M
Hey Everybody,
Yesterday I saw Gary Burton play at the North Sea Jazz Festival in Holland. It was awesome and I recorded one song on video. I'm waiting for Gary to see if he"s allowing me to post and if it's ok I'll post that soon.
And…
Ok here's my practice tape for Autumn Leaves. Stops and starts and all that.
When I practice a tune like this in this way, I just try stuff and messing around in different keys. I'll try technical stuff, and melodic ideas. Anything.
If I…
Tony Miceli, Mark Przbalowski, Gabe Globus-Hoenich
I don't like to post audio or video from the hang because i want people to be there live and get into it with us!! Any way I'll post some from this one!
How important is it, as a professional vibes player, to be a great sight-reader?
I prefer working with smaller groups, trios, quartets, etc., but i'm not opposed to working with any other kinds of groups. Right now, i'm a decent…
“this one time, at band camp….”
I got home last night after spending a week at the Jamey Aebersold Jazz Workshop. While this is fresh in my mind, I thought someone may find value if I wrote about it and posted it here.
The first part is a…
The vibes are here! Not permanently (they belong to the high school), but it's something to work on. It's an Adam's "Vibraphone Concert". Excited already!
This is one of the posters I designed for Tony's gig in Ireland during his stay here, it features some fine musicians based here an of course the "Teach" himself. Really looking forward to these gigs.
John
Here is a lesson on building a voicing vocabulary. This is a exercise with offers a method for familiarizing yourself with every possible inversion and alteration of any given chord with a 4 note voicing. This first lesson just deals with…
Hey Chick82!
You joined us some 2 months ago as subscriber and we quite often see you online. You even had the nice thought of wishing Tony a happy birthday on the chat... But we don't hear much from you... hardly a comment, no post...
I…
This is a tune b Bill Dobbins hope you like it, I heard John Abercrombie playing this so I thought I would try it, I have added some effects on it, decided I would post this on Tony's birthday, tear me up
John
I was playing the piano and wanted to randomly choose a tune out of the RealBook, and opened to Lament by J. J. Johnson. I think it is a beautiful ballad. Here is my attempt of an arrangement for vibes. I tried to get the fullness I was…
Hey guys, here's a clip of a recent Sunday brunch gig with clarinetist Billy Novick. We've had the gig a long time and I always look forward to making the drive into Boston on a Sunday morning to play. For many years, I played with the…
Our next vibe hang is July 3rd. So far the line up is:
Randy Sutin, Behn Gillece, Tony Miceli and Dana Sudborough.
I think Nathaniel Vito my student might come an play a tune as well. It's going to be fun!
(Marie - did I do the UTC time…
Sugar by Stanley Turrentine
Playing on the blues (or bluesish tunes like Sugar) always give me a hard time because there are so few key areas to work with. A tune like Stella pulls you right along with the key centers changing frequently.…
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