This is beautiful!! Illya Amar worked on that Chaplin film "Easy Street" and played solo vibes on the whole movie. This vid is an excerpt. I warmly invite you to watch it entirely (around 20 mn?) from his website: http://www.illyaamar.com/video.html

I'm sure Chaplin would have loved it: clever, right, clear, musical, moving or percuting, but all beautiful! The more I listen to Illya the more I love his playing!! Go Illya! - Enjoy guys!

Hi All,
Here's the November 6 and 9 line-up:

Behn opens the show with "Overcooked."
Then David Friedman with "Rios."
Gary Burton/Rebecca Parris and "Au Privave."
Pat Metheny and "Blues for Pat" (no vibes)
Cecelia Smith
Arturo Serra debuts
Chuck Redd
Arthur Lipner
Dave Pike with a great version of the pop hit "Spooky" which I dedicate to an old friend
Milt Jackson
Red Norvo

second hour:
Nick Mancini
Teddy Charles
Tony/Libby McDowell and a very "today" arrangement of an old song, "Blue Skies."
Bill Ware
Scott Peters
Tyler Blanton debuts
Cal Tjader
Hendrick Meurkens

So we're about to start studying chords and harmony. In my usual fashion I have no idea what we're going to do. I figure it's like this: There are a lot of vibe players here and we can collectively use all our minds together and really grow. It's really not just up to me, it's up to us. All in all we're making a huge collection of information about the vibraphone. We are all working and learning about this instrument and passing the information on!

Hey everyone, on sat Nov. 12 we are trying to a range a hang to go see Gary play at the blue note in ny with chick corea. So far its me and tony, anyone else interested?!

Twenty or so folks, mostly ladies in wheelchairs, at the rest and rehab hospital last night for a sing-a-long with Jocey's soprano voice leading and me on MalletKat synthing vibes. We did a dozen songs in an hour. I played each melody line through once, then came in with chords in the left mallets and the melody line on the right with everyone singing from song sheets we passed out.

Here the N°7. Took a long time, but no way to play faster without mistakes... And I think the final is a little too loud...

Ted Wolff posted a video titled 'Never Seen Vibe Playing Like this'.
http://www.vibesworkshop.com/video/never-seen-vibes-playing/tedwolff/10…

I thought I would counter his post with this one!

I CAN say that watching Ted's video and this one, there's a lot of things that each of these vibe players can do that the other can not.

[All in jest people]

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.