Malletech announced a new vibraphone that allows manual tremolo using your foot (is manual the right word?).

http://thevibe.net/smf/index.php?topic=1120.0

Looks interesting.

Gavin has a great write-up on it:
http://gavinmcgraw.blogspot.com/

Barry

Here's another song I was thinking of adding for my Xmas gig.

I was working on a solo version and also with accompaniment. Enclosed is a version with Band-in-a-Box background

For some reason my setup is real noisy. Gotta track that down.

Barry

Hey Everybody,

Marie has been hagging me to blog about the two times a have seen Mike Mainieri play in the last week. But I've been fed up with some really complicated personal stuff... Well actually that has been going on for a year now, but it's really complicated, but anyway the bottom line is I have to move soon and have to put a lot of time into our new house and also I have a pretty good gig coming up in a theater show that I'm preparing fo, some pretty advanced classical stuff(I'll post about that too in a while...)....

Real simple. Pick something. Play it and record it listen back and do it over and over for an hour or so.

Record then listen to it. Just keep the cycle going and don't interrupt the cycle.

Real simple real easy. Maybe a head to a tune? maybe a solo? Maybe a written out piece.

Play and record it. Sit and listen to it back immediately and then play and record it again and do this over and over.

Trying to sort some stuff out, but I have some things in mind over the xmas break. I'm finished teaching at school (Univ of the Arts) and have a month off.

I'd like to get on line a lot over the month and hang out with subscribers. Maybe Piper and Saindon and Joe will join me for some? That's in the works. Just have to get my schedule together.

I've asked Patty Franceschy to do some lessons during these meet ups with the stevens grip.
I even asked Harvey Price who just wrote a book of Milt transcriptions to do some mini Milt lessons!

Here are some more charts from Ed. These go along with his videos.

Listen to this audio track from Ed's latest CD with Dave Liebman. Also check out the lead sheet and his article on 'The Art of Composition'.

Hi everyone, feel free to check out my website if you get a chance. www.behngillecejazz.com I plan to add some more pics and stuff, but if anyone has any other suggestions, that would be great. Thanks.

Behn

Bah humbug!! You guys are in the holiday spirit! I'm not a holiday guy at all and I'm dreading my Friday gig. We'll be in some guys mansion and we'll be playing tunes and of course someone will want Christmas tunes. some of them are pretty and I like Oscar's version of them. I'll play those, but I'm so not a holiday guy, this week won't be fun for me.

I do like listening to some stuff. Choirs and again Oscar. His Xmas cd is really cool I think. I'm also checking out what you guys are posting and that's fun. I'm just not into playing them myself! Scrooge huh?

Pretty cool original composition by the vibist from Berkeley High School Jazz Ensemble.