I finally finished my new book and have settled on a title. The Shapes and Patterns of Music Prologue
The book is approximately 50 pages of nonstop exercise patterns. Great for reading and improvising. I hope you enjoy the workout! The printed complete book will be available very soon.
A new interview (FWIW)
http://voyagedallas.com/interview/meet-pipervibe-music-fire-ice-corinth…
My wife and I are passing through Spokane on vacation, and we visited the "Historic" Davenport Hotel, a hotel originally built in 1914 and then fully restored several years ago.
While looking through old research files for my Ph.D. dissertation (1976) about the New York Jazz Community, I came across this program from a 1975 concert by David Friedman and David Samuels that I attended. I remember speaking with Dave Samuels afterwards since there were so few marimba players doing jazz, which both Dave's did regularly as Double Image. I don't recall if I spoke with David Friedman, but I might have. Ironically, the piano player in my current group, the Brooklyn Jazz Collective, is the son of one of David Friedman's students from that era.
While looking through old files of background material for my Ph.D. Dissertation (1976) on the New York Jazz Community, I came across the program from a 1975 concert by David & David that I attended. I remember speaking with Dave Samuels afterward since there weren't many instances of anyone playing marimba in a jazz context, which both did regularly. I don't recall speaking with David Friedman, although I might have, briefly.
I did this for my student Dan. We wanted to play very inside over the Tune Quasimodo which is a contrafact for Embraceable You.
Everybody should download this and put your choruses on and post it.
Hi Folks,
Been vacant on the site here the last few months. Just wanted to take a minute and do a quick blog about what I've been doing in the shed the last few weeks.
This year I decided I wanted to be a stronger 2 mallet player. From the time I got on the vibes in college after playing marimba for a year or two I pretty quickly committed to 4 mallets, all the time. The whole approach from the Burton school, comping, dampening, etc.
I love it!