Vibraphone

Here is Morten Grønvad from Danemark... smooooking!! :o)
Morten is a member here as "Mogreen". I hope he comes around more often and share with us!
If you take a lot at his hands, you might notice he's using the Mainieri Pinky grip... Never saw anyone except the master himself being at ease with it!! Wow!!

Listen to this Romanian vibist, in a beautiful rendition of Richard Galliano's Laurita. Great clear sound and technique (tasty bended notes in the first head). Enjoy !

This piece is the 1st movement from Bach's violin sonata # 1. There's lots of opportunity for mallet dampening. The goal is to get it to sound full and resonant, but very clean. As you move from chord to chord use good dampening and/or pedaling to make sure no notes from the previous chord ring into the current chord; making it sound sloppy.

The tempo is really slow, with an 8th note set to about 50 on the metronome. A pdf of the manuscript is included HERE

Hey guys and gals! This is an audio clip from a recital I did recently. Whaddya think? Hope you dig it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIprhA_qaAs

-Drew

KITANO HOTEL
66 PARK AVE AT EAST 38TH STR
NY, NY 10016
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Presenting music from their upcoming release Blue November.

Manhattan Vibes

Christos Rafalides; vibraphone
Sergio Salvatore: piano
Ricardo Rodriguez: bass
Vince Cherico: drums

sets at 8pm and 10pm

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www.manhattanvibes.com

Hey guys,
hope everybody is well.
I'm playing in Switzerland with Latin-Jazz Pianist Hector Martignon and his Quartet from November 16th to 19th and I'm looking for an instrument. Please let me know if there is anyone that can lent me or rent me a vibraphone in Switzerland.
Feel free to contact me at
christosraf@mac.com

thank you

/christos
www.manhattanvibes.com

hey,

since tony posted so much stride stuff i thought i will try something on that. i choose moonglow. this was my best attempt out of 4. i put on a tiny brush snare and cymbal to work as metronom (you like it marie?) and to work on my timing, since i tend to rush always.

i think the feel is ok but i need more practice on the movement of the left hand during the solo.

tarik

Brazilian music.

With the chords festival, the topic of grooves arose and one of them is brazilian rhythm(s).
I personally lived (in the 80th) some years in Brazil as a professional musician and since then I lead a MPB (Musica Popular Brasileira) group and a Batucada (street percussion band), both playing samba, samba reggae, partido-alto, afoxé, maracatu, and bossa-nova , musica-cansão, baião, choro, in addition for the MPB group. I had the opportunity to play with numerous brazilian players and singers during my career and I keep doing so. That’s for my credentials…