As you know I "follow" a bit the new members when they arrive. From the day he registered some 9 weeks ago, I always wondered... "For God's sake, but who is Monsieur 405"?!
Can you answer Ben? (please)
- M
PS: in fact, I already know a few very interesting things, but hush... I will let him speak ;-)
Hi Everyone,
Wednesday, September 1st, is the second anniversary of JazzOn2 radio. To celebrate we will be airing some sample editions of our regular programming. A special one-hour edition of "Good Vibes" will be aired at 11:00 am eastern (US) time. I've pulled a couple of tunes from each of the first four "Good Vibes" shows, which began in May of this year. I will be playing Tony's "Nascimento," Joe Locke's "Alone Together" with vocalist Kenny Washington, Jay Hoggard's "Swing 'em Gates," and nine others. Hope you can listen in!
I was writing to Dr. Bob (drbobm55) and he sent me back a great email. I liked one section of the letter especially and asked if I could reproduce it here. Dr. Bob said ok.
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Hi All,
Here's another tune from a gig back in July -- I'll Remember April. In addition to me on vibes, we have Brett Baker on guitar, Mike Caruso on bass and Bruce Hanahan on drums.
Enjoy :-).
Tom P.
I really want the TOTM to succeed and for you guys to memorize tunes. I think you'll be happy you did!
I'm trying out yet another web conferencing package. This one looks cool. If it works we could meet once a week or once every 2 weeks and work on the tune, live.
The problem is the audio, as we don't need great video, but we need decent audio. I'm assuming it won't be up to par, but I'm working on it.
We could attempt to do this in ustream, it might be a little clunky but it could work.
Anyway I'm still at it.
VW is excited that we will be included in the syllabus for the percussion department at the University of Delaware. Harvey Price and all of his students (21) will be subscribers on VW. This is exciting news to us, because one of our goals is to get universities percussion departments involved in the site.
In the two years I have run this site, I've learned that the end of August is a pretty quiet time. I realize people are on vacation, students are getting ready for college, people are just basically chilling and waiting for Labor Day, and then to get back to work, school, etc.
I've also watched the site grow for the past two years, and checked out the community of vibe players that has built around all this. It's not nothing short of spectacular. The fact that we have almost 1500 members from all of the world on this site is truly remarkable.
okay, so her two weeks into the tune of the month. I'm curious as to your thoughts of what's happened so far, what's happening to you, and what you think of this process.
I know for myself that just thinking about things changes my direction and give me things to learn. I personally got way more into tunes based on the tune of the month club and have altered my practicing and am studying lots of tunes again. I know for myself this is been a great thing.
I'm inspired by the TOTM gang.
I used to have a database on my palm phone with several hundred tunes on it. I knew almost all of them at one point. Then I switched phones, got a palm pre and didn't switch all that over.
However you guys inspired me and a week ago I installed a DB program on my Iphone. I put in about 200 tunes and am building the list again. I have a DB set up with a few different views.
All tunes
Swing tunes
ballads
up tempo tunes
Then I have a pop menu for each tune. Either I know it, have to refresh it (means I can fake it if I have to), or learn it.
I was practicing a few weeks ago and when reviewing some of my taping, I really liked this one for some reason. It is quite short so I decided to share it. it was practice with some different goals, most of which were accomplished.
BruceW :-)