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Summertime by Joe Locke & Goeffrey Keezer (check out Joe's solo!)

This is pretty cool! Check out Joe's solo. I was just looking around and this floored me. The thing I also dig is their re-interpretation of the tune. I hear a lot of reinterpretations these days and a lot are so far removed from the original that I personally get a little turned off. It's obvious that Keeser knows the path back to Summertime (IMHO).

If I Were a Bell by David Friedman

David sent me this to post
Wow, this is a LESSON. Check this out. There's a ton here listen to this one over and over. This is cool.
I personally LOVE to play in situations where there is no bass or drums. This would be a dream CD for me.
The playing is phenomenal. The CD will be out soon, I can't wait.

Listen to how it swings. Wow!
--Tony Miceli

More Basic Stuff??

I know some of these topics we've been talking about are a little over some of your heads. Which is fine, I'd like to help get you further up the ladder, so you can understand more of that.

With that in mind, What questions do you have that might help me when making up lessons for this site. Let's stick on the more basic side of vibe playing in this topic.

What do you think?

Behn Gillece with Ken Fowser Quintet at Chris' Jazz Cafe

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Hello everyone,

Just wanted to let everyone know that I will be playing with Ken Fowser's group at Chris' Jazz Cafe in Philadelphia on Dec. 20th, Saturday night at 11:30. Please stop by if you have a chance. Here is the lineup:

Ken Fowser- tenor sax
Behn Gillece- vibraphone
Luke O'Reilly- piano
Adam Cote- bass
Pepe Merolla- drums

Thanks,

Behn

Check Out Guitar Players

Check out the first part of this video. Matt is a local guitar player. What struck me is watching him play solo and realizing that would totally translate to the vibes. There's a major conceptual study there in playing the vibes solo.

I've learned so much from listening to guitar players play and especially play solo. They have the same problems we have. I just thought I'd show you guys this.