I just bought a Modern Jazz Quartet album at a flea market with Milt Jackson's autograph! This adds to my collection of autographs, including: Lionel Hampton, Gary Burton, Tony Miceli, Behn Gillece, and Oliver Mayman.
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I love listening to guitar players play solo. I can usually imagine playing like that on the vibes. Their approach really lends itself to the vibraphone.
Watch and study this video and try playing like this on the vibes. There's a line then a chord. If the line is quarter notes, you can play chords through it, but if you're going to play a busy line then no chord, it's too difficult. Get it???
Lessons and posts on lines
Friedman #19: https://youtu.be/u0TEI7Zd4Lc
Green Dolphin Street on Piano: https://youtu.be/8UNESNrmJg4
This is a solo vibe piece Tony Miceli commissioned me to write for him. Let me know what you guys think! These are the program notes I wrote for the piece:
This piece was written in April of 2024 upon commission from Tony Miceli, professor at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. While taking private lessons with him, we began experimenting with timbral effects on the vibraphone, and one of my assignments was to write a solo vibraphone piece surrounding this idea. Thus, this piece was born.
Lessons that cover topics on triads and chord tone lines.
Lessons that cover topics on phrasing.
Lessons that cover topics on improvisation and soloing.
Green Dolphin Street solo: https://youtu.be/OTzzzW-GRsw
Green Dolphin Street head with chords (A section): https://youtu.be/Fs_59QAn8IA
This is a "workout" in a musical sense, although it certainly requires energy and concentration!