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Hymne a L'amour - simply beautiful song sung and made famous by the great French vocalist Edith Piaf. The lyrics were written by Piaf and the music by Marguerite Monnot. It was written for the love of her life, the French boxer, Marcel Cerdan. On October 28, 1949, Cerdan was killed in a plane crash on his way from Paris to New York to come to see her. She recorded the song on May 2, 1950.

I'm using some reharm here and there as well as a modulation for the last A section of the song.

So it's pretty funny to me. I was messing around with this Cannonball Adderley tune, "Things Are Getting Better". I was recording it to listen back and check my stuff out. I got done and thought, 'that wasn't so bad, I should post it'. I listened back a little bit later and forgot my dryer was on. I'm so used to it, I don't think about it.

I practice in my basement, which is also my studio for making audio and video for Vibesworkshop. It's great. Not a big deal, but I wish the washer and dryer was somewhere else!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJorONUU0YA

“In Your Quiet Place” by Keith Jarrett. One of my favorite songs from Keith. I remember working on it quite a bit during lessons way back with Gary. Of course, the recording of this song by Keith and Gary is a favorite as well as Gary’s solo renditions. Lately I’ve been listening to Keith’s version from a live concert recorded in 1975 in Munich. It is brilliant. I posted the audio clip on my page last week. I noticed some of the changes are a little different than the changes in the Real Book. I’m using here what Keith used from that Munich concert.

By Antonio Carlos Jobim

Less bossa nova, more legato meets ballad...

"The Folks Who Live on the Hill" - a superb ballad with beautiful lyrics and a great melody. Written in 1937 with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and music by Jerome Kern. Keeping it pretty simple here with two choruses close to the melody. Enjoying playing the melody more in the upper register with this vibraphone.

I decided to do an impromptu solo vibe clinic on my way through New Zealand.

Would you mind going an liking this video on youtube?

It's my nephew. I lent him a vibraphone and he made a video about it. I just thought it would be nice to get him some likes. He's a tech kid, very smart.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMYKeCmVWVw&feature=em-uploademail

With Julian Lage, Scott Colley and Antonio Sanchez.
Killer stuff!

"'Round Midnight" by Thelonious Monk - After 43 straight years of teaching at Berklee, I'm officially on a sabbatical for the upcoming Fall semester. My sabbatical project is the recording of videos that feature solo vibraphone techniques along with the application of improvisational concepts from my 4 volume series The Complete Guide To Improvisation. Some of the concepts in this clip include the application of Upper Structure Triads, the Symmetrical Diminished scale and the Pentatonic b2 scale.