I'm sitting here listening to Clifford Brown practicing over Cherokee. He's working out his s***. I did this because I was working out my stuff on cherokee this morning since I'll have to play it in Korea in August! I'm going to start practicing it now. While in Ireland doing a tribute to MJQ, I'm going to play it on the gigs. Just throw it in (John Daly start working on you FAST tempos). So I'll be working on this for the next 60 days.

This was the beatiful landscape of my last gig with the salsa group Bloque 53. It was Tabarka, Tunisia! The strange " Power Beat" vibes wasn't too confortable, but well...

Yesterday was my first vibes only gig. Untill then, I always had split guitar/vibes gigs.
Bass/vibes in the first part and on the second we had to acompany various singers on the fly with all kind of repertoires, most of them coming without any written music, all of them singing in fancy keys and some of the tunes totally unknown (from me at least). Very good ear exercise !

hey,

although i already posted most of the songs somewhere on the site, i thought to share some excerpts of my first malletkat only gig to show you the advantages of the instrument by using different sounds on the fly. first i was a bit affraid of playing a gig without my loved musser but i must say it all went well. best would be to have them both and setup like i have at home but then i would need a roadie :)

tarik

My Quartet!
Ethan Fisher-Vibes
Quintin Zoto-Guitar
Bass-Josh Fisher
Drums-Jon Tomaro
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Happy Birthday Tony!!

I haven't been around but I think I still managed to be the first to congratulate you... haha pretty funny. Anyway out here is your birthday for already an hour or so.

Hope you all are having a blast out here while I'm changing diapers!

Cu all some more soon!

TJ

Some of you know James Whiting, our "young" and yet serious member from Australia. Last year James recently released a CD under his own name: www.vibesworkshop.com/node/5267/
Then he switched to Musical... even getting to dance on them! ;-) Here is a picture of his set for Hairspray, the Musical he's currently playing in. Thought I'd share it, and give you some fresh news from Australia! Go James! :o)

Another exerpt from the LA Vibe Summit! Bob is among our members here and sometimes pays us a little visit: swinging Bob!! :o)