Les Blachut reminded me of Red's b-day March 31st. I searched and found this video of him from 1982. The man is not too young, but I love his relaxed playing, youth in his eyes and attitude, and visible fun on his face!

But jeez... though I see no cell, isn't that pick up sound?! If so how cool from a man who was born in 1909 to go through all those changes with a kid's smile!!

Happy Belated B-day Mr Norvo! :o)

.... probably should spend more time here, considering all of the toys are ready and waiting.

I ran across audio of Lem Winchester Playing "My Romance" on youtube. Joe Locke said in one of the workshops a while back "If you want to understand Bird, you can start with Sonny Stitt; if you want to understand Bags, you can start with Lem Winchester." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzDEZcCtzWI Of course buy the CD if you can get it.

When I first encountered modes I felt a little overwhelmed. I had been working hard to really learn all the major and minor scales and thought that would be all the scales I'd need to learn. But no! I discover there are lots of other scales that are important, if not vital, to playing jazz.

Hello to all the users here at Vibesworkshop. This is my first post here and I´m a bit ashamed to say that I´m asking for help instead of offering sage advice on all things VIBES. I have a bit of a problem with my mallets. I use an older pair of Good Vibes M 235 Medium Hard Mallets (the old Gary Burton signature model)which I love and give me a great tone and response from my vibraphone. The beaters are ragged and dirty but still completely intact, but the handles are twisted and bent and under normal use maybe don´t have so much time left.

Any ideas for beginners lessons. Tjaco has offered to crank some out and I can do some. I'm also checking out a couple guys that specialize in beginning mallets for some lessons.

If you are a beginner, what would you like to see? I know we need more beginners lessons up here, and so we might as well customize them to you!

Ideas??

Face Book is wonderful... and so is Gary Rich who sent me to Chuck Redd, my latest vibes discovery!! What a smoking performance from all musicians! I love that "dislocated" introduction and this powerfull swing so present all throug the tune!! Wow!! Here's to the two mallet vibe guys!! ;-)

More on Redd: http://www.dcjazz.com/chuckredd/