"Bridge Over Troubled Water" - a classic song from Simon and Garfunkel that I've been working on the past few days. I worked with it for some reharm possibilities and applying voicings from my book Voicing Concepts for the Jazz Vibist (…
Applying the concept of Tension Resolution to the standard "I Hear a Rhapsody". Working on my sabbatical project which is the combination of solo playing along with improv concepts from my four volume improv series The Complete Guide to…
The damper bar can be set very extensively and sensitively:
* The damping sensitivity is adjusted by the adjustable pedal lever.
* The distribution of the damping effect along the beam is realized by adjusting the two traction straps
* A…
The Ballad of the Sad Young Men" - a great ballad composed in 1959 by Tommy Wolf with lyrics by Fran Landesman. I was listening to Keith Jarrett and the trio on the plane home today and they play this song beautifully. It has been one of…
Putting a radio show together turns out not to be so simple. There’s the tempo of each tune to consider, like the fast paced “Yardbird Suite” (Gibbs) and “Alice’s Journey,” (Gillece) and the slow pace of “Stargazer” (Fisher) and “Dusk,” (…
Hey my fellow vibes players,
I'd like to share with you an indiegogo campaign I am running to raise money to build a recording studio in Cali, Colombia. This studio would be built at the residence of Diego Obregón, an important Colombian…
This is an original composition that I wrote a few days before my daughter was born.
I managed to get involved with a great student jazz group on campus at my new teaching job (Philosophy at Sac State). We are playing this tune, Tricotism…
When I started to collect information about 'everything vibraphone' I entered 'vibraphone forums' in Google and it gave me two www sites (this one and the vibes.net?). The second one seemed to be abandoned and this one looks alive but with…
Last month I was talking to Tony about non-jazz music on vibes. I listen to a lot of traditional Canadian folk music, especially Québécois and Acadian tunes, so I decided to transcribe one for vibes. Here is an Acadian piece called La…
