“LEARNING TO LISTEN: THE JAZZ JOURNEY OF GARY BURTON”
-reviewed by Anthony Smith
10/31/14

I realize I’m a bit late to the party, as the book was released in 2013, but having just voraciously devoured Learning to Listen: The Jazz Journey of Gary Burton, I feel compelled to offer a review…

I just like this picture of the Omega. I did a video shoot with a great Brazilian Pandiero player in a really cool setting.

Here's a nice performance of a pop song from Genesis!!
Hoper u enjoy

Here's a nice arrangment of a pop song that my old professor did for vibes solo.
Have fun!!!

Here comes another workshop!

If you've ever wondered what to do with your giant vibraphone cases around Oct. 31st, here's the answer. Happy Halloween!

Hey guys, I hope All The Things is still TOTM. Here are a few choruses on All The Things using chord tones. I think it's important to be able to improvise with strictly chord tones and try to make it sound as musical as possible. It's not easy since all of the notes are stable notes, but only using chord tones allows us to focus on other issues like smoothly making the connection from chord to chord, use of motives, time feel, experimenting with various rhythms, starting phrases in different places in the measure, beginning a phrase on an upbeat vs.

Solo vibraphone on Leonard Bernstein's "Somewhere" from West Side Story. I'm using some reharm on this. To view and download the lead sheet, go here to google docs: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0TwrpqjL6dQUlhRNktkbFhESmc/view?usp=s…

Third attempt at this etude! Definitely not done with it yet, but hopefully a good culmination of my posts of it here.
I did not use a metronome this time, so I know my time still needs work; I wanted to see how good it would be without a met.
Thank you for the feedback, Mr. Friedman.

Great site Tony!