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Amazing Improvisation with 6 mallets!!

Patty 13 February 2009

This is an amazing improvisation by master marimbist Keiko Abe. Unfortunately is not the entire performance but you can get an idea. She has mastered the 6 mallet technique. If you look carefully she is not only playing block chords, she is also playing lines alternating the sticks and opening and closing intervals within the 3 sticks. She is using the traditional grip. Also the improv is based on one of her compositions called: "Itsuki Fantasy"

She is amazing!!!

Remember When by Bruce Wells

vibeman27 12 February 2009

Hi everyone at Vibes Workshop

I decided to put up one of the last and most recent videos I had done because it is becoming so obvious that I still won't have more for some time. So, anyway, here it is, Remember When written by Lennie Niehaus, a beautiful ballad. I am not quite sure when I made this video but it was in the last three or four years. I had not posted this on YouTube until June of 08.

BruceW

this is my pad

Philippe 11 February 2009

This (see attached pics) is where I spend a few hours everyday. It's a room-within-a-room, in my basement. Soundproof for the people next door, and for my family upstairs. I start soon after breakfast, always with the vibes, still trying to tame that Vanderplas. Then I move to the drums (1970 Gretsch mounted with Earthtone heads) and let steam off. Then a Havana cigar, and a streetwise book. My grandson Steven plays alto. He knows more at 13 than I did at 20. My buddies Laurent (bass) and JM join me a couple of times a week for sessions.

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