What a great picture! Illya is playing his composition in duet live on the Chaplin's movie "Le Vagabond". This was in a little town of the French Alps. I wish I had been there! I bet 'Charly' would have dig it! Go Illya! :o)

This is one of the pics that we used for the Jazz Festival launch, it made all the papers. it's me and my grandson Jack who is 5. Check out Jack's tee shirt. It was taken at a skate park lying on our backs.Love the graffiti background The soprano is heavy and I was amazed Jack held it up for so long while the pic was being taken. It cost me a visit to the toy shop afterwards. Marie especially for you.

John

best of both worlds! in response to your email, tony!

This picture was taken at the Bodega head beach in Bodega Bay, CA. I love comin out to a beach cliff spot and setting up, playing for an hour or two. People pull over and watch, ive attracted a little mini crowd or two a few times. its a pretty uncommon thing to see- and i get good response, beautiful energy. Someone even reccomended making an event out of it, and doing like a barbeque by the beach with vibes music lol. never got around to it, but it would be cool.

This is one of my all time favorite tunes. We don't state the melody until the end.

This is heavy stuff. If you don't know, Tom Harrell is schizophrenic. And as you can tell, it is to a serious debilitating degree. For him to overcome that and alcoholism, and continue to make music at the level he does is nothing short of incredible. This interview shows an incredibly deep and introspective side of a man who has suffered a lot. Even as a schizophrenic, I find the problems he describes going through resonated heavily with me because of my own experiences, and I'm sure many people feel the same way. Tom Harrell is one heavy guy.

Hey guys, here's a version of Jobim's great tune Triste.

another version of this song this time solo without any overdubs on the malletkat

Hey all,

I'm in the market for a new vibraphone and I've narrowed it down to three instruments, all Musser: the M46 One Nighter, M48 Pro Traveler and M55 Pro. I drive a Ford Explorer so having space in my car is not a big issue (I'm able to fit a 5 octave Yamaha marimba in my car). I'm about to start my junior year of college and I'm looking for an instrument that will serve me well as a professional musician but won't break the bank so I can afford grad school without taking out some crazy loans.