Vibraphone

Man I just read Dana's blog. he's right, the opportunity is here, we should ALL be blogging. Well no should's or shouldn'ts as my wife would say. But blogging would help the learning process here.

I wish the pros would blog more often. Just talk about what's up and talk about what's going on in there heads.

I can relate to Dana listening back to himself. I always said, if I had my own music college:

Mandatory recording device for each student.
Mandatory Journal (daily)
Mandatory Recording yourself playing several things each day.

Another video from Angelo who just might be the oldest vibe player in the world? Well he's at least most likely in the top 10 i would bet!

I watched this video and saw him standing behind the instrument and playing away and thought, wow!!!

Just thought i'd post it here.

You've been very gracious to share so much about your life in music. I am hoping you might share a bit about two of your more unusual recordings, "Tennessee Firebird" and "Time Machine." I have always been fond of both. How did you collect all those Nashville musicians in one place? Who is Walter L? Overdubbing was still in its infancy when you recorded "Time Machine." How were the people at RCA to work with? And one last question. Was that you carrying the vibe bars on the cover of your first album "New Vibe Man in Town"?

Gary talks about his travels!

Argentina Diary

Day 1
6:40am. I stumble off the American Airlines flight from Miami after a mostly sleepless flight. The first thing I notice is that all the airport workers are wearing medical masks and rubber gloves. Guess they’re taking the flu seriously down here. In the baggage area I am concerned because there are no carts in sight. I have five pieces of luggage (three vibes cases, two personal luggage).
[Reminder to self: call Mark, my trusty case maker in Massachusetts, and order a replacement for the large case. This one won’t last much longer.]

This video made me smile, really big, and I wanted to post it here. Then I saw that Tifoo posted it. Even better!

Barry

Here is someone who obviously adores Milt Jackson, as do a lot of people on this site. However, even though this person does not obviously "sound" like Milt, they have managed to play an exact solo by Milt with his nuances. Enjoy!

I am a huge fan of Gary and this video I found! Very Interesting I think is from the pre rock/jazz/ fusion stuff
also you can see some dampening techniques and great solo.. Larry Coryell -guitar

Hey everyone, just got back from San Francisco last week, and I'm happy to say that my group with saxophonist Ken Fowser earned the Generations fellowship for 2009. There's a cool article about it, you can go here: http://www.creativearts.sfsu.edu/node/998

originally i wanted to mail this video question to tony personal but it never made it to his mail address i don´t know why.so i thought who cares ... there are enough good players on the site who can help me out with this.
maybe some of you are dealing with the same problem sometimes.i´m happy for every comment!

tarik