A friend of mine sent me this youtube clip. There is a wild vibe solo that starts a minute or 2 into the video. It's a lot of fun to watch.

Dream about them, think about them. Imagine them. Let's get ready to study them for a couple months. Chords, harmony, voicings, colors, shadings. Let's strip them down and build them up. Let's really work hard on chords and harmony and see where we wind up.

Great Cal solo at 4:10-5:44. Hadn't seen this one before.

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I hope you will forgive me for once to post my final Blues out of the lesson, like Tarik and Phillipe (aren't we bad students!!). This tune, written by Boris Vian was performed by our great and late Henri Salvador. As there are lyrics in French with quite a lot of slang, I thought I'd try a little translation for you to be "in the mood".

Of course it's full of mistakes!! But it's my final practice tape, to try and wrap up this great Blues session we started around mid August: that was a lot of learning and fun!!! :o) Please be indulgent... and enjoy!

THE DENTIST BLUES

hi everyone! another practice session of a wonderful song comrade conrade...

I've been recording a bunch of tunes the last couple months. And I've let them sit for all this time. Now I'm going back to them and it's a great experience to do this.

I'm see myself play one tune over and over and work through problems that I don't think I was conscious of but was picking up on listening back to everything. Pretty cool to look back and see yourself working through problems.

I posted this over at www.trumpetworkshop.com.

I think it's great for us to hear as well. John is a master of the line. He had a big influence on how I work at the vibes. I think you first have to be able to make lines that weave through the changes. Once you can do that, playing with four mallets becomes very easy!

So check it out!

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Hi everybody !I tried Behn's "riffin' and spellin" approach here, but I didn't emphasize the minor pentatonic enough. Never mind "it will have to do, until the real thing comes along", as the song goes. Cheers Philippe