"Oblivion" by the great composer Astor Piazzolla from Argentina.
This is a piece my son Jeremy wrote for his daughter, Ona. I also hadn't heard him play vibes in decades, even though he's an accomplished percussionist and electronic performer. I was pleasantly surprised by his subtlety and control. I also find the piece touching. Can a father say that without sounding corny? :-)
I rearranged Carousel for David and I and to use with 2 vibraphones. We performed this in a concert in Germany in 2018.
This was videoed and edited by Hauke Renke who is also a great vibe player.
"On Green Dolphin Street" - playing this classic standard with alternating choruses in the keys of C and Eb along with a focus on lines using improv concepts from my four volume series The Complete Guide To Improvisation.
Hi Everyone,
With all this snow in the northeast it's hard to believe spring has arrived. At least that's what the calendar says.
This month's Good Vibes happens to fall on Easter Sunday, also known this year as April Fool's Day.
I'll start the show off with Roy Ayers and the Jack Wilson Quartet. Steve Hobbs reminded me how good Ayers is and that nudged me into playing something of his. Bria and Stefon Harris are next, followed with a ballad by Milt Jackson. "Bags" could really play those ballads, couldn't he?
Just a follow up on my (pan) video from last week where I copy banjo finger rolls to accompany myself.
What a duo !
There's another one too...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42pnuYOX88s
Enjoy !
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”.
What came first, the chicken or the egg? or ... what came first, the melody or the scale? In a scientific world, the scale was certainly here first. It was always here. Partials derived from the harmonic series and placed in a row is not a creation of man but an existing entity just waiting to be discovered. Humanity's discovery of scales and modes evolved as artists made new melodies and found order that spoke a language of expressiveness. As a result of their exploring, learning and constructing melodies, patterns and similarities were revealed.