So tell me how you found the vibraphone?
Here's my abridged version.
I played classical guitar growing up and was very serious about it. I also played drums and then picked up piano as a teen.
I almost went to school for piano, but some…
This is a nice and cool version of my bossa-ballad "Calm Down" (recorded "live in Berlin", 2006), played by the musical fellows and friends of my brazilian jazz group BRAZILIAN EXPERIENCE from NYC.
Gustavo Bergalli - trumpet
Klaus Mueller…
Guys,
I've been given this link by my guitarist friend Bernard after I shared the recent Clark Terry vid... This French band is too good!! FYI, on xylphone vibist Jean-Miche Davis. (pass it on! :o)
Enjoy!
- M
I'm here working on some forms I have to fill out and have Pandora playing a John Adams Station I made. All of sudden this marimba comes on and it's beautiful and articulate and stops me dead in my tracks. It's Evelyn Glennie and I just go…
Hello everyone, Just wanted to let you know about the upcoming Percussion Festival at Berklee College of Music in Boston. The festival will start on Monday, June 21st and end on Friday, June 25th. There are several tracks that we will have…
We will get together in the morning at about 9:30 until 12, then about 1 until 3 or 4.
We can probably work out practicing in the evening with John.
We'll have a bass player I think every day.
The catch is this: My plane comes in Sunday at…
I posted about transcribing some MJQ and hearing mistakes in the recording and feeling a little funny about it. This is one of my favorite groups, but I was complaining a little bit!
My punishment was that the video - 'Modern Jazz Quartet…
Hi everyone,
Here's an article which will be in the upcoming July issue of the Percussive Arts Society magazine Percussive Notes. The article is titled "The Healing" and details the recording session of Depth of Emotion which featured…
Here's the website. No Content is added yet, I just bought the domain, made the layout, set up the buttons so far.
http://www.joeporteronline.com/
Tell me what you think,
Joe
So I'm transcribing some MJQ. I remember (I think) Gary Burton talked about them not being good readers. Ok. I'm taking down the tune 'Don't Stop This Train'. It's a sort of fugue. Well I've found 2 mistakes and I think they cut out a John…
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