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This is an interesting cd for vibe players to check out. Listen to Julian play. This is Guitar, Bass and Drums. Julian plays the melody a lot of the time and only adds one or two notes. When I hear stuff like this, I think immediately about playing in a trio, vibes, bass and drums. I see how little I have to play. I see how similar we are to the guitar in terms of comping and playing melodies. I learn so much from listening to guitar trio CDs!!!!

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This is an attempt at the time exercise that David Friedman has been demonstrating on the site. After the head, the vibes solos for two choruses, then guitar for two, and out.

Hi I'm new to this wonderful community. I've been playing vibes for about one year. I recorded practicing blues, Billie's Bounce with my good friend bass player. I know there is so much to work on, outlining chord changes, language... and way more... but I'd like to hear from all of you way more experienced players than me on what I should focus more. There is so much material out there on the recordings that I'm listening to, should I transcribe first?

My student and I were working on “Darn That Dream” today in a private lesson. We were talking about playing voicings under the melody and discussing ways of adding color to the harmony while playing the melody. A lot of the voicings and voicing techniques I’m using in this clip (clusters, shapes, voicings in the texture, symmetrical diminished shapes, reharm, six note voicings, voicings with upper structure triads, linear movement,…) are discussed and shown via examples in my book “Voicings Concepts for the Jazz Vibist”.