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Israel played a nice gig for a wedding in this beautiful parc in Galice - Spain. I love the weather, the trees and stream behind! What a great place and occasion to play!! :o)

French vibist Franck Tortiller is to launch in November a tribute album to Janis Joplin. Here is a excerpt... with Monsieur Jacques Mahieux on vocals! Enjoy!

I recently saw a local production of the musical, "Kiss Me Kate", which included the beautiful tune, "So In Love" by Cole Porter. I decided to work on this for my Solo TOTM. It's in The Real Book Volume III 2nd Edition.

Attached is a melody-only version, with metronome. I tried playing it with the pedal down most of the time, with mallet dampening for legato. The version in the Audio Player is a version with accompaniment.

Check out David's beautiful duet version (see Check This Out, above).

I still need to work on knowing the melody cold (too many mistakes and hesitations).

QDV = Quick and Dirty Video
SOC = Stream of Conciousness

I like thinking on the fly and talking about stuff. Hope it's helpful.

Oh man... Arturo just sent me this... I realised how I think people too often play this tune a bit too fast for my taste... It's so beautiful as a balad. And indeed Arturo and his compañero (Jose Carra) made it soooo beautiful. Thanks Arturo!

Greetings everyone. Can folks on the forum recommend any tasty published jazz music arranged for vibes (i.e. either solo, duet, or small group)? I'm working hard at learning to voice my own 4-mallet chords, but in the meantime I really enjoy playing good arrangements.

Thanks in advance for your suggestions! Maybe there is already some good lists of published vibe music on this forum?

jazzdad6705

There are lots of great solo performances by pianists and guitarists. This video takes a look at a few techniques that these instruments employ and tries to adapt them to the vibes. Hey, why reinvent the wheel?

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Babu asked for this. I can go anywhere. Up and down stairs, through tight spaces. I can park 6 blocks away. It's a great set up.