Vibraphone

I feel like i've been on a treasure hunt lately. I've been looking for grad schools to apply to for Jazz Vibraphone (graduate level). Im not finding a big list here, and was hoping some of you guys would have a better idea as to wear i could consider applying?
So far i know of: Manhattan (locke), UArts (miceli), Queens (rafalides).
Know of any others?

When you come into rehearsals what do you expect to happen? Do you have order to your rehearsals? Is there a leader, or does everyone just work together?
For me personally, i prefer to walk in with a set idea of what to do. Whether its running through tunes we as a group are all familiar with, or running through an arrangement idea someone had.

Anyone going to see Gary play on the 27th?? Maybe we get one big table??
If you are going leave a comment below, maybe we can get a count.

Here's info on tickets:
http://tickets.worldcafelive.com/eventperformances.asp?evt=4053

This is GReat!

Hi Everyone,
October's Good Vibes will air on Sunday, October 2 (8-10pm eastern) and rebroadcast on Wednesday, October 5th (4-6pm eastern). This edition is dedicated to Terry Gibbs, who celebrates his birthday October 13th. I will open each of the first three half hours with a Gibbs recording, and close the two hours with his version of "Flying Home."

If you play and record yourself, give yourself the day after test. Don't delete the files, put them away and come back the next day or after that and listen. Watch how what you thought can change!

My Deagan 580 bar posts are eye bolts. That means that I cannot remove my bars for transportation.

I recently lost a bid for a nice Deagan 582 on eBay, which had the more modern posts that allow removing the bars.

I put in my maximum bid and let eBay automatically increment the bid. I was watching the countdown timer on eBay. I had the highest bid. 5 seconds, 4 seconds, 3, I am getting really excited..., 2, then the bid changes. Someone obviously wanted it more than I did. Oh well. I already had a vibraphone, but it would have been nice.

I've been recording myself playing tunes solo the last couple of nights. I play several versions of the tune, listen to it, critique it and then play a few more.

What I like about that is you play for about 30 minutes and then listen for 30 and then play again. You get a good chance to really check yourself out. I don't know what I'd do if I couldn't record myself. It helps me so much!

i was a little upset that i did not manage to play the head right on my first post.i kept practicing and took care of all the advises from the first post. so here´s another version of the song, i´m much more pleased with. still not perfect and after listening i thought, wow i could do some rests and play much cooler instead of doing those 8th notes chain scale licks but at least i can play something that fit´s over the tune and sounds more or less a bit be bop style.

tarik