There's a been a lot of talk on the site centering around Tango and Gary Burton. Gary has posted a few comments about all this.

So I've organized some of it here in one place. Check the links out above.

If I've missed anything, please post in the comments below and I'll update all this.

Reading the posts about Teddy Charles reminded me of my own relatively short but equally intense time of study with this great jazz iconoclast and master vibes player. When I was at Juilliard in the 60's, my teacher, Morris Goldenberg, decided at one point that it would be more appropriate for me to study with another teacher. I was already getting into jazz vibraphone and Moe was mainly a studio xylophone-percussion player. Don't get me wrong, he was great at what he did but he recognized that I needed something else that he couldn't give me, so what did he do?

Thanks everybody for the birthday greeting. I was touched and would have hugged every one of you(especially Tony and Joe! Thanks guys!!!) had we been within arms reach. It was a difficult birthday because I was in Barcelona for a workshop which I had to cancel because I got the flu on the 2nd day! So I spent 4 days in Bed, flew back to Berlin, saw Tony's email and checked out the site! That really cheered me up!!!

Best to all of you!

David

Hi Gary,

I saw in the Shout Box that you had a tour coming up with the Piazzolla band. I'm a huge fan of Piazzolla and I know you are as well. His music is very deep and emotional. I have his book about his life. It seemed that he had very difficult times at various points throughout his lifetime. Also, it appears that he was very meticulous about his music and took his music very seriously.

Wow! Gary Burton is playing a few dates with Pat Metheny on the east coast and will be in Philly!

http://garyburton.com/display_tours.php

Check back here for details:
http://www.keswicktheatre.com/eventcalender/index.cgi?month=6&year=2009

Barry

I found this in my archive. I think this is not on the site yet. It is an interview Tony did with Ed Saindon a while ago. I don"t know when, but maybe Tony can comment on this.

those solos look like some serious practice is coming by (again...)
I have the secret wish that Gary may have the time to say a word about it.

If anyone knows them and want to give me some advices, I'll be glad !

Here's Ed Saindon's version of 'It Might As Well Be Spring'.

Ok here's my version of 'It Might As Well Be Spring'. I've included an image from my Itunes song list. You can see how many versions I still have. I probably threw out just as many. I studied the $($% out of that tune. It was so inspiring to be hanging virtually with Ed and John and Studying tunes. Somewhere we discuss our tunes, I have to find that. It's not up here already is it?

Here's the next tune I thought we'd check out and study.

Ed Saindon's 'Life's Blessing'. I asked Ed if he would make a solo recording to get us started. Hopefully he will. Regardless let's all start checking this tune out and talking about it and practicing it like we did with Joe Locke's tune 'Sword of Whisper'.

Maybe Phillipe could make the play along!!!

So download the tune and start working on it. I'm sure Ed will give us a hand and talk about it. Maybe he'd even do an audio lesson for us?

Here we go!