Hi Gang,
Since we all seem to know the birthdays of our esteemed pros (both living and deceased) and we take a moment to recognize them, we, at the same time, do not have in our profiles the birthdates of our ever growing membership.…
This is a duo I have with another student of David, Julius Heise.
He is playing marimba and me on vibes. A kind of minimal piece of mine called Irrlicht.
I just had a phone call with someone. We were talking and I thought of something I wanted to say. I knew underneath I was partly bragging about ME. Strike one. Then the conversation just started to drift but I HAD to get my plug in there.…
Check out David's comping here. I really felt like he left me plenty of space to do my thing!
The other thing I like is doing a vibe duet with 2 different model instruments. When you do a vibe duet with the same model instrument it sounds…
This Thursday, I'm doing a concert with Gerald Veasley and the Electric Mingus Project.
I think we're going to stream the concert live. We're checking out a couple things with internet from the club. If it all works out then we'll be…
Phillipe Mace gave a great workshop on Improvising over bach. That is learning Bach and analyzing the harmony and then improvising on the chords in that style. It was great and really informative.
He had students come up and play a bit of…
Vid... if you'd do a blind test while he plays, you'd think... wow... that cat really has something... But if you'd open your eyes, you'd see the nicest and humblest "kitten" you've ever seen... :o) I've heard he might become a "tiger" one…
Hey everyone,
I was reading some old Milt Jackson interviews from the 60s to the 90s. One thing that was very interesting to me was that back in the early 70s interviews he was complaining that jazz was never given a chance by the…