Bluesette - lot of fun yesterday playing with Mark and Gustavo in the basement studio. Nice playing and then a hang with Napoli pizza and meat pie capped off with blueberry and apple pie from Mann's.
We had a great discussion in the Sunday Vibes Coffee House meeting last week on wrapping mallets.
One of the members, Brett, talked about how he wraps mallets. He included this article about wrapping mallets.
He also talked about hemp…
"Question and Answer" by Pat Metheny. Got the lead sheet from Gary Burton who got it from Pat for their recording Like Minds featuring Gary, Pat, Chick Corea, Dave Holland and Roy Haynes. It's a classic recording that received a Grammy for…
I've been working on my video and audio editing so I decided to write a duo arrangement and see if I can line everything up. This is my friend Noah Hogan on guitar (going to NYU as a jazz major next year)
Hi Everyone,
I'm putting on another outdoor concert tonight (8/7 @ 7 pm) with my combo (vibes/guitar/bass/drums). This time we'll be streaming it live on YouTube at the link below:
https://youtu.be/vQGk1diUylA
Hope you can check it out!
"A Simple Sentiment" - an original composition for solo vibraphone that I just finished and ran through on the vibes. Sort of a somewhat simple anthem composed for a basic sentiment for our current times. It's an AAB odd bar form…
Hello everyone!
I’m going to be posting two lessons a week for a little bit, so I hope you like piano-isms! This one’s actually a Part II to my original one on Oscar Peterson. It delves into a few more idiosyncrasies characteristic to his…
Attached is my Free Improv at today's Vibe Coffee House. I thought it would make a good lesson.
My approach was the following:
- Pick a random interval. I chose descending Bb -> F.
- Let the interval inspire what comes next.
- Use…
Hi vibes family:
I record my debut album back in February right before the craziness happened. Last week I put a crowdfunding together. Since I didn’t sign with a label, so I’m managing everything myself. The record will be released sept…
In the online meeting a week or so ago, David played a Red Norvo video and, when talking about it said, "I don't know why nobody has ever transcribed this solo.."
That was enough motivation for me. :)
To my ears, even though this was…
I got inspired by Oliver's arrangement of "Days of Wine and Roses". The drummer in my band wants to play "Beautiful Friendship", so I thought I would try to arrange it in a Shearing style.
I understand the basic concept behind the…
Part of my new practice strategy of just improvising a solo arrangement and recording my first take, instead of my usual thoughtfully working everything out beforehand and using maybe a third take. It's a lot more time-efficient.
Using "Like someone in love" (Eb) to study solo-vibe playing. Having started with creating a counter line to the melody with the root notes of the accompanying chords we are now starting to incorporate chords. See the previous installments…
This is a video of the concert I put on last Friday with my combo. It went surprisingly well, so we'll be doing it again in a couple of weeks. It seems like perhaps we all need to get used to the idea of outdoor gigs.
Hey All,
I hope you were able to catch last month’s all-Jobim program, played by an assortment of many our favorite vibraphone players. If you were listening you may have noticed one important, well-loved Jobim composition that was…
"Bright Size Life" by Pat Metheny. Great song by Pat that still sounds fresh. When this came out with Pat, Jaco and Moses in the 70s it turned a lot of heads. A classic album featuring Pat's compositions and superb trio playing.
