Hi!
Just a practise tape of me playing Autumn Leaves, don't worry its only two chorusses ;-)
critics welcome
Cheers Stefan
P.S. just added a version of the mp3 without metronome
Hi all,
We've talked quite a lot about vibes and popular music. Here is an example.
Yesterday I came across this vid of my vibist friend Norbert. It's not jazz, but he joined a group named 'General Elektriks' where he plays drums and vibes.
In October they were hosted on French program 'Taratata', a good musical moment where music is 100 % live. As guest was 'M', a hip famous French musician/singer (guy with the black hat). The tune they revisited 'Melodie Nelson' is from great French late composer Serge Gainsbourg.
This is my ensemble at the University of the Arts. They're playing the Ornette Blues 'When Will the Blues Leave'.
They're a very talented bunch. Andrew Nitolli is the only freshman in the group and he's doing a great job keeping up with the older students.
Andrew is kicking ass here at the school. He's blowing through a couple transcribed solos and playing them in all the keys, and working out voicings and chords, etc.
He's a former student of Joe Locke and I know Joe is pretty proud of Andrew!
Man I've been working on the tune Beautiful Friendship and it's kicking my ass. The melody, and the phrasing feel really unique to me. And I'm trying to play the tune right down the middle and it's really really hard.
I'm finding I have to kind of study all the spaces in the tune so I can play the melody right. Next the tune's second A doesn't resolve which is a little unusual. And sometimes I want to resolve it just like the last A!
Great video of Hutch!
Here's another lick for January. It's in 2 parts. The lick is attached to each part as a pdf and I play it. I would advise transcribing the lick yourself first and then checking the music.
I usually don't even put the music up but this lick is a little more involved.
Check out the end of this video. These kids are so proud. It's pretty cool.
And it looks like one of the percussion groups Gary grew up with! Lots of players and lots of instruments!
I want to go to school there!
Ok I thought I'd post this one because I'm soloing and comping. You'll get an idea of what I'm doing!
But I won't even post this one on youtube. I look the FATTEST on this one. So this is for subscribers only!!
Only subtle fat jokes allowed. Let's see how subtle and cunning you can be.
I'm going to study stage presence of this cat.
This is a trip and a half. Power to him.
Check out Pianist Tom Lawton's solo. Tom is a true genius like Gary.
Tom transcribes and memorizes solos by playing along with them on the dashboard of his car on the way to gigs.
He can do tricks like play a tune and play each hand in a different key, take solos and everything with each hand in a different key. He can hear anything and play it back and transpose things like Bartok excerpts on the spot and put them in solos.