Jazz sous les pommiers 2013

What a great weekend we had. The festival is in a French town Coutances near the coast. It’s kind of the border between Bretagne & Normandy (hope I‘m correct here).

We arranged a room with 1 of the people volunteering to give rooms for the audience. It was organized by the tourism department. So we 1st went over there. I walked in and started my explanation. “Hey, I’m Stefan Vandenbe” “OOOOOH It’s you !!!, I’m Marilyn, we mailed”. OK, so they where expecting us apparently. J

i hope everyone is enjoying the spring weather .. oregon is gorgeous. im weeks away from gettin my cd done. here is another track that ..for your listen pleasure

I'm starting to learn this tune to sing with my guitarist friend in June. Not sure yet how much/if I'll add some vibes, but I felt like getting into the tune by learning the harmony. Here is a quick dirty audio of where I am so far. Still too much ringing but I can't manage to master that yet... Anyway, enjoy!

I've been away from the site focusing on a billion work and music projects, but it's all dying down now, so I'm back! This week I've been playing Morris Lang's arrangements of Bach inventions for two mallet players. My friends and I used to sight-read these for fun whenever we had free time in college, but it's harder to find people to play these with on a whim now, so I decided to cover both parts myself. Didn't work too long on this, but it was a good listening exercise. If you don't own this book, go buy it right now; it's great for sight-reading if you play the pieces at half-speed! :)

Today I am playing with Dimitrios Kosmidis, Justin van Uum and Greg Torunski in gasterie de Fabel in Heerlen from 16:00 till 19:00! And after that I play in Edd's Cafe Maastricht from 22:00! We present mainly original compositions.There will be an open jam session so any of you people want to come would be great. More gigs soon!

Tony just posted this video a few mn ago on his FB profile... Isn't it beautiful! :o)