Here's an idea to incorporate into your playing which works well over Alone Together.
-Tyler

John D' Agostino from KDSD jazz 88.3 out of San Diego sent me this review of my debut recording, " Jackson"

“The first thing that drew me into two new releases by vibraphonist Thomas Mackay — his Quintet’s Here’s That Rainy Day and especially The Mackay Project’s Jackson — was the revelation that he’d written vibes songs. This can’t be over-empasized.

Here is a belated Halloween tune. I recently discovered the tune JuJu by Wayne Shorter. My arrangement is inspired the version by Philly pianist Tom Lawton.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/retrospective-debut/id400295067
http://www.dreamboxmedia.com/lawton.htm

Barry

I'm calling this the twin to the first dampening etude. It picks up where the other one left off, except this one is a 4 mallet etude. Although it's 4 mallets, you'll find that I kept many of the moving lines from the first one.

So the challenge with this one is to move voices within the chords.

Hey everyone,

I started to work on septembersong (Kurt Weill).
In the picture you see the voicings for the 1th 8 bars I made for the A section.

Am I making big mistakes in this ? or does it look like something I can work with ?

Thanks in advance for your feedback.
Greetings,
Stefan.

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There comes November… and its new TOTM: Alone Together! We started with great lessons and etudes. So join us!

Today we learned the passing of Angelo J. Vaglio. He must have been 95 or 96 years old but he kept playing nearly till this end and was an honourable member of our community. We dedicate this newsletter to him and will keep up vibing in his memory.

LESSONS:

* Tony Miceli:

- TOTM – Summertime – Can you Hear the Tune? www.vibesworkshop.com/node/9525/
- TOTM – Wave – Etude: www.vibesworkshop.com/node/9528/

I started practicing Alone Together on piano, recorded it and overdubbed vibes. Work-in-Progress.

Barry

Most of us know who Angelo is. He was probably one of the oldest working vibes players in the world. There are a whole bunch of videos up here I think of him playing, it's not there on YouTube.

He was a really nice guy, totally into the Vibraphone, and that age 93 was working 3 to 5 days a week.

So it's pretty sad to report that Angelo died last night, but he did have a really long and active life!

Does anyone knows wo designed the first vibraphone with large bars and witch company first produce it?

thanks a lot
Giovanni

Download the PDFs and then YOU put the chord names in there!