Check out 13 year old guitarist Andreas Varady. He's amazing.
Hang for the whole vid if you can, because the second tune we do is Giant Steps and he tears it up!
Earlier this year my wife decided that it was time to get a master's degree so we sat down and looked at a few places. We visited the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. The faculty that evaluated her audition were gracious enough to admit her into the program. She is a great player!
Last week we made the epic road trip from Muncie, IN to Vancouver, BC. I've been emailing people in the area about finding a job, playing gigs, and teaching gigs.
Man about what we did this summer. We got 7 vibe players to come to Ireland and work on the vibes. We have 17 (19? I forget) vibe players coming to the University of Delaware and we're rounding up about 15 sets of vibes and a bunch of marimbas. Oh man!!!
I figured when I started this that if we could all come together and work hard together that we could really make some cool things happen. I always think that the better we get the better it is for the instrument. It's a cool instrument to start with and when we play it well it's cooler!
Hey guys,
Here's a clip of an old classic tune called "Sweet Lorraine" which has been recorded by such pianists Art Tatum, Teddy Wilson and Nat King Cole as well as sung by Frank Sinatra and many other vocalists.
The tune has quite a bit of changes including many extended dominants. There's some nice guide tone lines throughout the changes. I try to bring those out either in the left hand comping on in the line.
Thursday is our unofficial anniversary celebration! I will try and stream as much as possible, including the Vibe Hang. I will also try to stream David's afternoon workshop for everyone to see.
It's unofficial because I was going to talk it up this week, but no, our server crashed!!
Let's see what I can do this week to talk it up.
Every body is welcome to come Thursday to the University of Delaware For Our Open House. It starts around 2pm.
Take the day off of work and practicing and drive down, come meet, David Friedman, me, Behn Gillece, Mike Pinto, Randy Sutin, all the attendees at the workshop and everyone else who comes!!
Beautiful! Simply beautiful! :o)
"Sunset Road", a composition by Mike Caruso, performed by my group, the MetroWest Jazz Project at a gig on Friday, 23-July-2010. In addition to me, Mike is playing bass, Brett Baker on guitar and Bruce Hanahan on drums.
Enjoy -- comments appreciated.
Tom P.
What a great week I had. What a pleasure getting to meet players from all over the world. This was incredible for me!
First off, let me thank John Daly. Without John this wouldn't be possible. You know Ireland is an amazing place to me. People are helpful and totally down to Earth. John is at the top of the list. He's incredible, I've never really met anyone quite like him. This workshop would not happen without his energy. I was also talking to someone in the workshop who said that the Limerick jazz scene has John to thank as well. He's a mover and shaker!
I just got back from Tony's course in Ireland and I want to take a minute to write about the experience.