It seems to be a pretty quiet morning here at the Vibes Workshop so I figured I'd post another video. This is from the same concert as the Deep Hearts video I uploaded a few days ago.
This one is called Ups and Downs and it is one of my originals.
All about the Mallet Kat from Alternate Mode
In this study we work on the tune 'Take the A Train' and study it from top to bottom!
Here's lesson 3 for A Train. Memorize the chords and play chord melody for the head.
A rare Milt Interview.
My buddy Dick Klien is a superior court judge here in Philadelphia. He also plays drums and jazz. Back in school he did a bunch of interviews for his radio station at college. Here's the Milt interview.
Milt had just recorded the cd with Coltrane and was working on his strings album. Cool to listen to.
*I just noticed that you could submit performances for members, so I wanted to put this out there again.*
This is a video I recently made of my band, Nós Novo, playing one of my favorite Bjork tunes. Though the band was founded with a view to playing and playing with Celtic musics from our perspective as jazz musicians, we also do the occasional song that I just really enjoy playing and feel suits the group... to my ears there's a lot of connection to Irish music in this performance, but if it doesn't strike you that way, I hope you enjoy it for what it is. Our members be:
Hi Folks-
I've been hypothesizing about the following questions for years, and an opportunity is coming up to maybe apply some of my ideas, and I'd love your input.
Thanks to Carlos Maldonado for finding more of this!
This is from a recent concert my group and I played at Berklee. This is Ed's tune, Deep Hearts, which is one of my favorite of Ed's tunes.
Enjoy.
James
Come out to the next vibes workshop hang! 1pm East Coast Time
To watch the vibe hang on the 26th