This is a thrown together duo intro for my university septet. Its a bit rough around the edges, but I thought it came out nicely for our first performance together. Sorry about the music stands everywhere!

The Willamette University Bernie Fischer Septet 2008
piano- Dan Bullard
tenor- Adam Lozier
alto- John Collins
drums- Brian Greggs
bass- Robert Blodgett
trombone- Pete Bergstrom
vibes- Paxton Gehling

critiques most welcome!
-Paxton

Here's a pdf with a list of Giant Steps CDs.

The lesson demonstrates some comping patterns and ideas to get you started on playing in a ChaCha groove. All the patterns are over a ii-V7 vamp (Amin7-D7). You could use these patterns over songs like Oye Como Va and Soul Sauce.

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.

Intro and ending solo
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Here's a Quick & Dirty recording from a gig at a supermarket. We are playing "Juliet-style", up on a balcony above the people as they shop below. I had a substitute bass player that day so we didn't play any of my originals.

Ross Shodek - Bass

Jorge Ginorio - Conga, Timbal
http://www.JorgeGinorio.com

Dana Sudborough - eVibe and cowbell (during conga solo)

http://www.triomontuno.com

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.

When Gary told us about his childhood, we had a little talk about tap dancing.

Having a look on Joe Locke's agenda, I saw that he will be performing at Jazz Baltica (Germany) in July, with young tap dancer Maurice Chestnut and a few other percussionists. The title of the performance is : "Percussion Discussion".

Whao!! I'd love to be a little mouse and attend!… But who knows, maybe there will be some video on Youtube…

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"?