This is a sweet little Aria Bach included in his "Notebook for Anna Magdelana". It translates well as a solo piece for vibes. I used to play lots of short pieces like this for restaurant gigs. They really helped to fill up the tip jar!

A pdf of the arrangement is included. Merry Christmas everyone!

Hi Workshoppers,

Just stopping by to say Happy Holidays to all!

I am by no means a composer but I have decided that I should start getting into composing a little more. This is a run through of a tune I am working on. I would really be interested in hearing your feedback before I try to finalize my stuff. The playing of the tune isn't the greatest especially on the solo section (I haven't quite figured out how to solo over my own changes, haha). Also the intro was completely improvised, I figured I'd just mess around with some ideas.

Did anyone see today's Dilbert?

I don't know whether to laugh or cry :-).

Tom P.

Here is a live performance of an arrangement of My Funny Valentine. This was the first tune we played at this gig and we were having all sorts of issues with sound and monitoring levels ...... basically we couldn't hear each other so its pretty loose at first, but thought I'd share it anywyay to give you an idea of the sound of the group and concept of my latin jazz project Latin Vibe. Plus my piano player kept comping all the time even though we worked out to take it in turns !!!

Dave Kemp's arrangement of Milestones for his Latin Jazz project - Latin Vibe. Live performance at the Valley Jazz Festival 2009 at the Judith Wright Centre in Brisbane Australia.

Hi Tony, hi all,

quite some time a go John McLaughlin was in town playing a concert tour called "Remember Shakti". One of the songs was a piece of classical Indian music. I wonder is some of you dear VWers have some receommendation where to start with this kind of stuff? Cd's? artists?

Any thoughts? thanks!

Cheers Stefan

Hello Vibes Workshop,

Here is one video performance of "Beautiful Love" with my former band "Light Motif" in Grenoble (city in France in the Alps).

Sorry for the bad sound, the talking audience and the "dancing" girl !! :)

Actually I'm new here, and I can't wait until having some "new" video or audio material to post here. This video is one year old...

My recording / filming setup at home is not yet fully operational, but I'm working on it and looking forward to post some new stuff.

Anyway, feedback and critiques are welcome!

Thanks,

Hi all!

At a period when the kitchen will soon be a very important and full room, I found this fun video on Youtube: students of Danish vibist Martin Fabricius playing "Wok Amok", said Martin: "A piece of mine written in 2000 for 2 chefs and 2 helpers".

Martin is not "yet" a member here, but is registered on thevibe.net and studied with Ed Saindon. You can find his details and vids with him on this youtube link, are more on his website: http://www.martinfabricius.eu/index.html

Enjoy!

- M

Phew, it doesn't end. The semester is over which is great and I should be chilling for a few days, but Sharon's grandfather is 101 years old and we have to head to Texas and clean out his house which is sold monday. So I thought I'd get a few days to practice and to post some more stuff on the site. But nope, not until next Wednesday!

I think Dana has something up his sleeve though and will be posting something soon. Dana's lessons are cool, I always learn something from them and am sure you guys do also.