Oh man!

I just found the freshest news from one of Joe's very recent performances at Umbria (Italy). This video was just posted today. The gig can only be one or two days old! There's Bob Cranshaw on double bass (!), Joe Labarbera on drums and surely Dado Moroni on piano...

Oh man! Isn't that great! A postcard from Italy! :o)

PS: enjoy, but get ready, the vid is "inhumanly" cut! :o( Never mind! It's beautiful!

So here's where I'm at:

Buy Charlie Haden CD. All folk songs. It blows me away. I can't stop listening to it. No #9s, no series of ii V's in a row. I'm dying it's so beautiful.

I think about Gary Burton growing up in the midwest. He must have checked all this out. He WAS into country music. He must know this tune Shenandoah. Oh man it's so beautiful.

Ok, I should try it. I bet Gary and Pat Methany have played this tune. It's American music, it's Aaron Copland. Methany is the Jazz Aaron Copland. So is Gary I think.

Who knows anything about Lynn Blessing? We were talking about him in the shout box. Thought I'd move everything to here!

Check out these links:
http://playitagainmax.blogspot.com/2006/10/lynn-blessing-sunset-painter…
http://music.msn.com/music/album-review/lynn-blessing/sunset-painter/

Here's my accompaniment to "Have You Met Miss Jones". Play along and post if you want! If you can put the files together then upload the duet.

Here's me playing Bluesette to go along with the bluesette lesson.

Check out the other subscribers versions of Bluesette as well!

I had a great talk with Ed via email. We talked about whether the vibraphone was on it's last leg or not.

I won't go into our conversation yet, because I'd like to hear what you guys have to say first.

I waited for New Years day to post this. What's the future of the instrument? How do we save it? Can it be saved? Is it fine and I'm just trying to create hype? Is it truly a babe magnet???

Sorry for bad recording quality!
(quick take from my simple mp3 player)

:o)

This is beautiful. Go here for high def:
http://michalevy.com/one