Playing in a quintet with a piano player. I know it's kind of tough to stay out of each others way when comping, any tips? Thanks for all the help!

Hello everyone, here's a videoclip from a clinic on improvisation that I presented at Berklee (last summer) for the Summer Program faculty. The topics covered Tension Resolution, Four Note Groupings and Major 7th #5 Superimposition. The clip features David Clark on bass and myself on piano playing written out solos (that can be viewed/downloaded from here: http://allthingsvibraphone.blogspot.com/2011/07/improv-concepts-by-ed-s…) based on each of those specific improv concepts.

hey,

in my series frank zappa M-Kat playalong i present today:

zomby woof.

i love that tune and it´s a really cool rock composition of frank, showing that avantgard rhythms like quintuplets can fit into a rock setting. i cutted out the biggest part of frank´s guitar solo and hope he will not hate me for that weherever he is now. i transcribed the marimba part sometime ago and attached it as pdf.

unfortunatley the auto focus of my cam went a little bit crazy...sorry for that.
hope you like it.

tarik

My student Sangwon is doing a paper comparing Milt to Gary and he's starting off with the history of the vibraphone.

I know there's stuff up here about the history. Anyone know where some is? Anyone know of any other links?

@Sangwon - start with this link: http://www.vibesworkshop.com/search/node/history%20of%20the%20vibraphone

Just to let you guys know.

We're setting up the workshop for winter. I think it will be in Dusseldorf in a music school. Here's what I know.

We'll have a few instruments.
We'll have practice rooms.
We'll have an evening percussion ensemble.

It should be the end of February.

I'll know more this week. But it's looking good! We needed a place where we could practice, etc.

This just sort of speaks for itself.

Happy Holidays to all.

Peace
randy

This is a cool set of vibes. i JUST FORGOT to get him to play something!

This piece is from Joe Locke's "Six New Pieces for Solo Vibraphone" available for sale on his website - joelocke.com. I met Joe for the first time at PASIC (Percussive Arts Society International Convention) held a few weeks ago and had a chance to chat with him for a bit. He mentioned these new fully composed works for solo vibraphone and said that he was looking forward to hearing some other players interpretations. So Joe - this one's for you. Hope you like it. It's a great composition and much fun to play!

K. David "Dave" Johnson