Vibraphone

Vibist Challenge: Since we all have pretty much a lot of time on our hands, I’m posting a fairly simple challenge to my fellow vibists out there. Here it is: Take an improvised chorus on “All the Things You Are” and use the exact rhythms from the Ted Reed “Syncopation” book on page 37. This is a page that all of the students of Alan Dawson have worked on in various drum set applications with the great legendary educator. The solo should be spontaneously improvised (not worked out ahead of time or written out) and clearly sound the changes.

So next weekend how about...
Let's do mini concert on vibesworkshop.

April 11th. 2 or 3 tunes on video or audio, you just can't stop in between. Meaning the video or audio is not cut up. Makes us work hard on playing two or three tunes without stopping.

Who's in? Put your name in the comment section.

BTW - We are doing cool stuff on our Facebook VW page.
Every Saturday (Probably for a while), we're have online concerts.
Every Sunday (Probably for a while), we're having and online coffee house meeting with vibe players only!

Neil is the percussionist with the London Symphony Orchestra. He's a great classical and jazz percussionist!

His percussion ensemble plays some amazing arrangements of jazz tunes!!!!!

Tony's having me do a solo tune every day, and I'm starting to post them. How I'm doing it is taking a tune I know well, record my first take and play it safe. I upload that one. Then experiment more on other takes and listen back and work on the stuff that I was experimenting with. So here is my first take where I play it safe.

"Once I Loved" by Antonio Carlos Jobim. One of my favorite songs by the great Brazilian composer. But then again, I love them all. :) I might take back the Picardy Third on the ending but it was too late once I played it. Ha!Ha!

Hello Vibes Workshop!!

This is a video of a song of mine called "Puddles".
It was inspired by my kids when they were little.

The group is called "The Neighborhood Trio". The video is circa 2011 and we
recorded it for a Minnesota Public TV show call "MInnesota Original". I hope you
enjoy it. It's a happy sounding piece.

We are still a band so if you're interested you can poke around our website at
https://theneighborhoodtrio.com/

Cheers

steve

The story is so common that it is even in the Wikipedia entry about Bobby Hutcherson; He was so inspired by hearing Milt Jackson play on Miles Davis’ version of Thelonius Monk’s “Bemsha Swing” from the 1954 album “Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants”, that he decided he wanted to learn to play the vibes.