Joe Doubleday likes to put online thoughts of masters on his facebook profile. This one caught my attention. I'm sure you'll all agree on it... and that he'll forgive my past/copy! :o)
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"Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn."

Charlie Parker
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The Quartet that I have been playing with for a few months now just decided to record a demo to give out to places so we can score some more gigs. We met up at a school in a choir room and mic'd up and ran through with minimal takes. Then the bass player ran it through logic. Pretty quick and dirty.

I decided that instead of posting all the recordings on here, I would just post my myspace page with all my stuff.

www.myspace.com/joedoubleday

the group is:

Joe Doubleday- Vibes
Dr. Cory Gavito- Piano
Mike Boyle- Bass
Hal Corn- Drums

Hi Tony and everybody;

Actually, I don't have a lot of time to follow all new topic on the site, but I don't forget you!!
When I practice I record myself, so here is a video of "oléo" was record this week.
Advise, critical, all comments are welcome!
I think that I miss direction in my solo, too much "draft".
wrong notes and bad rhythm also in the thème sometimes... sorry! ^^
MIS

This is pretty funny, especially when they talk about jazz.

Pretty epic huh? I haven't listened to it for a long time. I installed Ubuntu on one of my PC's and set up last fm on it and have been listen to things I haven't heard in a long time.

Is that Freddie on trumpet? What a trumpet solo.

The cut I just listened to was Ella singing Mack the Knife. They have the wrong CD listed. Isn't this Live in Berlin? Where she forgets the words? Wow, who is the piano player on that? That is so swinging and then Ella does a Louie solo. OMFG.

I thought this was interesting and might get some talk going. Schoenberg is a tough one for me. Bartok, Shostakovitch and Stravinski I get, and I can hang with Schoenberg for a bit but not long!

One of our members from Australia will be in Philadelphia for a few days, so I thought we should set up a vibe hang!

Who's going to play? Come on! How about some new people as well as the veterans!

http://www.livestream.com/mallet_channel

Sometimes, well many times, I listen to music that I want to influence me. I'll do this and then go play the vibes. This really helps me. Listen to Debussy for a while and then start playing your instrument and improvising. What's going to come out? Well, your reflections on what you've just heard.

We're are all influenced musically all the time so use that for your practicing.

This is a comment that was posted by tpvibes. I thought it was so well done that I'd make a FAQ out of it. If anyone has anything to add, please do in the comment section. You could add links, preferences and why. This way we'll have a good post for anyone interested in getting their first set.

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Some weeks ago, I posted a take of I Remember you, made soon after I had learnt the tune. Since then I have become more familiar with it. This take features a piano player, a friend of mine from my college days. He lives 600 km away, and we've started exchanging some music. One thing is for sure, if I had a piano player like that close to me, I think I would just play with two mallets and keep the four as an option. Two mallets come to me more naturally. Sorry I haven't been very active on the site lately. But I'm still doing my homework.