The final lesson. I talk about wrapping things up. Have you done this before? Study something and then decide that you're done and then wrap it all up in your mind and put it in a compartment. This is the last lesson of the invitation series.

I"m thinking about all this talk about mallets and sound. So I was wondering how we would classify different peoples sound? I don't mean in a negative way.

I'm listening to Steve Nelson right now, Mike Dirubo's new cd. Ed mentioned glassy, that's definitely glassy.

I dug Ed's duet with Liebman. More round sound right? His new mallets. Who else has a round sound? Samuels right?

Elio Villafranca - Piano
Grant Stewart - Sax
Tony Miceli - Vibes
Luques Curtis - Bass
John Davis - Drums

Hello fellow vibists,

Here’s a version of Green Dolphin Street with Dave Liebman, Matt Wilson and David Clark and me. The head in and out is pretty loose, but in the whole scheme of things and vibe of the performance, it seems to work OK.

More from Elio's band. We're doing these for promo so I figured I'll post them here as well!

Thought this might be of interest to check out Tjader. Photos and photos of cd covers.

Elio Villafranca - Piano
Grant Stewart - Sax
Tony Miceli - Vibes
Luques Curtis - Bass
John Davis - Drums

OK, this post was prompted by Ed's great version of Black Orpheus, and his thoughts about mallets...

This video was done a while ago, and I don't think I ever posted it on VW. Reason was, that I wasn't that crazy about the playing. It started out as just a personal comparison, to see how much I could feel the difference between mallets if I ran some video. A friend wanted to see it, so I edited a little movie and put it up on YouTube. But I was kind of farting around - wish the time and feel were a little better. Whatever, the subject is actually mallets.

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