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)

I own a set of Joe Locke crossover mallets. These are great sticks if you're looking for a big sound without the real clang of hard mallets. Unfortunately, my stick have come unwrapped twice now. And I don't mean the yarn broke, but it literally just fell off the stick. Mike Balter rewrapped them for me the first time for no cost, and now he's replacing the set of mallets as a whole for a new set at no cost. There's a reason vibe players love Mike; he's straight forward, down to earth, he gets musicians, he's reasonable, and let's face it: he makes the best sticks!

Heres an uptempo version of darn that dream that I arranged for my jazz group last year. It was adapted from the Montgomery's version, with george shearing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpL4-1_byhc). Enjoy!

Hi all,

I just thought about making a little reminder/suggestion to help our TOTMs be clear, fun, organised, and of course easy to get back to, after we switched to the next tune :

TOTMs are first of all lessons from Tony, Behn and/or a few other guys. You will always find back all these posts in the V-BOOKS, into the "Lesson and Technic" section, under the TOTM subsection, and put together by tune (as you may guess it's not done automatically and requires a close follow up and a little work).