Here's the video below and you can also download the part and read along.

Practicing ! Practicing ! Practicing !
Some wrong notes in the theme will be fix shortly. This is a 235 BPM speed. I want to reach a good 250 cruise speed, lock the automatic pilot on to be easy, keeping on groovy ..... and good luck !

Only 3 days after Milt's bdate, here we go with wonderful flute/sax master Frank Wess... who truly turned 90 today!!! Wow!!

And... what better pretext could we find to post Milt's Opus de Funk with Frank grooving on flute? Huh? ;-)

Happy Birthday Maestro Wess! Keep swinging! :o)

- M

I listened to Tony's post and thought this was a fun idea. I thought the dominant #11 in the Take The A Train thing was a dead give away though! So I thought it may be really fun to try an obscure standard with less obvious chord motion. As personal punishment for doing this, I've decided to do this in Db in order to make it harder on myself, oh why god!

Here's some additional ideas on line exercises.

What can you find in upper partials?

ALONE TOGETHER - music of vibes solo by Florian Poser

You can listen to the original solo and read the music as SIBELIUS-score. (The cursor always shows you where you are)

The solo is from my record "Florian Poser plays his favourite standards" (recorded Aug./1994)
feat.
Florian Poser - vibes
Roberto DiGioa - piano
Thomas Stabenow - bass
Wolfgang Haffner (!) - drums

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Public Solo Vibes Performance
by FLORIAN POSER
Aug./2006
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Public Vibraphone Solo Performance
by FLORIAN POSER
Aug./2006
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The composition "Air Populaire" is based on the famous "Air" by J.S.Bach.

Florian Poser's BRAZILIAN EXPERIENCE
feat.
Florian Poser - vibes
Gustavo Bergalli - trumpet
Klaus Mueller - piano
Itaiguara - bass
Portinho - drums
guest: Michael Arlt - guitar

recorded Oct. 7th, 2011 in Ellwangen/Germany at "Atelier Kurz"

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