Hello everyone. Last year at the World's Vibe Congress we discussed, among a multitude of other topics, how to create greater exposure for the vibraphone. One of the possibilities we discussed was creating new pieces and works which feature the vibraphone by skilled composers. Over the past 8 months my percussion trio, Portal Percussion, has been working with Colleen Clark, a musician & composer based in NYC, on creating a piece of music which embodies the spirit of the discussion last January.

What does the piece entail?

Exploring on solo vibraphone with a rubato version of Keith Jarrett's Coral. Focusing on motives, dampening and four mallet techniques.

Been working on this tune for a few weeks and find it so difficult to improvise over but got a little bit of a solo going over pentatonic scales for the first three choruses and then I try and be more free on last chorus. Lots to do on this. Here is my effort so far