I just wanted to pass along a message to everyone. The site is growing, and there are a lot of high profile vibe players starting to check out the site. I'm getting email from many of these guys, some are already here. I grant them all full access to the site and ask and hope they'll get involved a little. I'm asking them to use their real names for OUR benefit, not theirs. I think when you guys see Joe Locke on the site that it's probably pretty inspiring. How about when you see Joe, Ed, Friedman,Piper and Mainieri all on the site at the same time. That's an amazing roundtable, huh?

Here's a little talk about dominant and scales that go along with them.

I've been really working on this tune. It's really hitting me hard. It's so beautiful. I listen to it and think it should be in a movie.

Anyway, here's my take on it.

My plan is to finish it up with a video version. I can't tell you how much I learned off of this tune.

Here is a great analysis of the Steely Dan "Mu Major" chord.

http://jmdl.com/howard/steelydan/mu-major.html

I just tried it on the vibes and it sounds cool.

Barry

Hi!

Encouraged by Tony's call to put up some personal recordings I put up this blues here. I recorded all the instruments with overdubs. Overdubbing is quite difficult to me even tough with metronome since I have a lack of "rhytmical stability". The recordng is about a year old and I think that my vibes playing has improved since then - at least I hope so.

Cheers Stefan

I just received a gift in the mail - a CD of Ed Saindon in concert @ the University of
New Hampshire, w/ Dave Liebman, Matt Wilson and David Clark. Beautiful concert, replete with
gorgeous originals("The Last Goodbye", "Hope", "The Healing") and re-imagings of standards
("Moon River", "Green Dolphin Street"). There's a solo/duet version of "Black Orpheus" which really shows how the grown-ups do it ... intense listening going on between Ed and

Hi all,

It’s a long time since I wished I could share the attached file with you. It’s in my "special collection" and I love it.

Last April when Joe Locke came to Paris his gig with the Moutin Brothers was recorded on the radio. Of course, I was there… and Florian too!

This is Joe’s solo intro piece... in full... and beautiful!

It fits rightly with Dana’s recent drop 2 lessons and Joe agreed that I posted it... I’m thrilled!

Enjoy!

P.S. : Jean-Michel, listen to what you missed! :o)

When I did my arrangement of White Christmas, I used an open voicing on the Cmaj7. Turns out that it was a Drop 2 of a Major 7th (Closed G B C E -> Drop 2: C G B E). Now I can put a cool name to that voicing.

Since St. Patty's Day is coming up, I started working on Drop 2 voicings for "Danny Boy". I am starting out with a closed voice arrangement. I will use that for the first repeat. On the second repeat, I will play the tune again with the open Drop 2 voicing. It is starting to sound really nice.

Barry

Lennie Tristano, George Shearing... 2 masters of drop 2 voicings. (Was Shearing?) I'm going to listen to more Lennie, but I played on the piano today and I thought of him immediately.

I've been really shedding all this. A couple points I'm thinking.

Don't take those scales and voicings literal. Any sideways movement of chords can have drop 2s.

Make up a simple line in a key or mode. Harmonize the melody in closed position (move the chords sideways), then do drop 2.