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I think this is probably his most famous tune, and it's great so that makes sense. This might be one of my more elaborate arrangements of a head I've done. I really tried to make the head itself have an interesting arc where every A section is different. During the bridge, I used George Shearing voicings a lot. In traditional Shearing voicings, the pianist plays a 4-part closed block chord with the right hand and doubles the melody an octave below the top voice with the left hand. This means there are often 2nds in between the bottom two voices, and that's what makes the voicing crunchy.

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Before Tony and Leigh developed the awesome Late Night Mallet, there was the Deschler 114. There was a lesson in the studio downstairs, so I was playing with soft mallets up in the living room. Nothing fancy here, just a Zoom recorder and me.

the other day, Chien Chien and I were talking about Crystal Silence. I think it is one of the nicest tunes ever written specifically for the vibes. I like to explore this side of the instrument.

Tony often talks about the use of vibes outside the context of jazz. Well, here is our newest release. It is probably best categorized as "New-Age Ambient", although I don't really like labels. I prefer to just ignore the box. Typically our music is considered too "new-agey" to appeal to jazz listeners and too "Jazzy" (whatever that means... sometimes they call it smooth jazz if they really want to fling what they feel is an insult) by folks in the new-age healing and yoga community.

Records to check out:
Alone by Bill Evens.
Peter Bernstein solo live at smalls.
Ornette coleman the album with 2 quartets.

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How to comp bebop head: slow version with comping, if It’s fast, you need to drop the chords. Only focus on single line

When you think about coming, just think about/practice comp in C key first. Use the diatonic movement to practice. We can practice quarter notes with one, two, three, four notes.

Hi folks, here is jack's assignment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lYvOSUeWAs

Head-2 choruses line solo-Head out
https://youtu.be/4SevKgiAYRA

This one's cool. You have to be careful with the pedal so notes don't ring over to the next chord. The rest of the etudes I've recorded (eventually all of them) are on my YouTube channel and on this site!