David Liebman is the man. I have heard lots of stories of him getting really dark with students, and who knows how true these claims are... but every time I have heard him speak on jazz or other topics he has been eloquent and polite. I found this "speech" of him talking on practicing. Nothing we haven't all heard before, but still a great reinforcement!

http://www.daveliebman.com/Feature_Articles/practice1.htm

Check out some of the guys at our workshop in Holland! We are having a great time!

Most of the tunes I try to write end up in the waste basket but this one avoided that fate and ended up on a CD I made a couple of years ago. Slow and bluesy, the melody in the bridge is similar to a tune by David Frishberg called "Blizzard of Lies". I decided on the title, "Secrets and Lies" party because of the similarities to David's tune.

The pianist is my good buddy Laura Klein.

This is incredible. Check out this frame. You take the legs off your old vibes and put your keybed on this inexpensive frame. I think this is going to cost around $400 or less.

Perfect for beat up instruments and beat up instruments in colleges!

A simple tip that will help expand language on a half diminished chord.

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Look what I found on vibist Chuck Redd's Face Book's profile!! :o)

Chuck's comment was: "Battling it out with Terry at the Arbors festival! No serious injuries - just fun!!" Haha!! What a great picture! It reminds me of his "battle" with Terry Pollard on that terrific video back in the day! As to confirm nothing has changed! ;-)

As Chuck nicely allowed me to post this picture he added: "Terry is 87 and going strong - He's an inspiration!"

Wow!! Respect! :o)

Vibe hang this Sunday! Should be a lot of fun. We'll be here in Sassenheim, NL at the vanderplas factory for a 2012 workshop. Come checkout and support all the players that came for this great event!

And of course we'll get David Friedman to play a couple tunes. Check it out if you can.

If I have all this right:

Holland 6pm
England 5pm
Philadelphia 12pm
California 9am