I'm continuing with the theme of ostinatos, using our TOTM "Footprints". No melody in this, just a left handed ostinato, with some upbeat chord colors in the right. The etude is supposed to have a drone-like effect. Enjoy!

Hi everyone
One small sample from my latest gig in Philadelphia.
Thanks for watching!

Yeah you don't have to be on time. Just get there around midnight, ok?

BTW you guys are tough crowd. I don't get any respect! I asked the cab driver to take me to where the action is.... he took me to my house. I don't get any respect. (American's help out the foreigners)

I'm telling ostinatos are the ((*&. they are changing my whole outlook on playing vibes. NOT that I'm going to play ostinatos. but they are changing how I'm hearing lines against lines, They're magical. I have to finish a solo I'm transcribing now. After that I think I want to try a Gyil transcription. Or at least pieces of it.

I feel like I'm becoming free from doing the little I'm doing with ostinatos. I want to do more!

Hey,

With the anouncement of a Tyler Blanton concert in my neighbourhood, I started thinking : " we are on our way...."

I got the feeling Jazz vibes playing in Belgium is slowly growing! In comparison with a few years back the vibes are coming above the surface.

While we never used to get jazz gigs with vibes, these times, every now and then concerts start to appear. In the music conservatories, percusion players choose more and more to start playing jazz on vibraphone, and they start their own trio's and quartets.

Cool stuff Steve is doing with pickups/effects. It sounds really good. Steve knows his shtuff. He had an awesome talk on mics at the Vibes Congress.

Steve, if you get some time, can you explain a little more than what the video covers. What pickups system are you using? I may have missed it, but are you mixing in mic'd sound with the pickups?

Thanks,
Barry