HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOE!!!!!!

I've said it many times here, but Joe is a true ambassador of the vibraphone. A phenomenal player, great stage presence, great guy and glowing charisma! I think we're lucky that Joe hangs out with us!

He's a great friend of mine and I'm lucky to know him and get to hang with him!

So happy birthday!

Marie asked me if I know Wolfgang Lackerschmit. Here's a picture he recently posted on my Facebook page. It was a vibraphone summit from the middle 70's (Check out the hair!!!!) with Wolfgang, Karl Berger, Tom Van der Geld, Frank Tusa(bass) and drummer Janosh Stefansky. (Sp.?) Wolfgang is in the upper right hand corner and I'm the 2nd from the left.(Check out the hair!!!!)
Too bad the picture is so small. Maybe he has a bigger one.

normally i would not post this tune yet and practice it some more weeks but then i remind me about my own spirit of posting thoughts and here it is. i´m not satisfied with some parts of it, specially the verse before the melody starts is played a bit loveless.but you get an idea what i´m working on at the moment. it´s alsmost the same style like i did on the sunny side of the street but this song is harder for me to do...no idea why, maybe because it has more chords.

tarik

I've been "not playing" now for three years. I think that's longer than some of you have been playing. I still digest music daily internally and I often get the attention of my brother firefighter/paramedics at work who notice the non-stop whistling or humming. Emilie (sp?) helped me learn this in her "Up Jumped Spring" post and I think it's going to help me out of my "hiatus" mode and start writing and playing again.… (thank you Emilie).

Todd directed me to the channel of this German vibist... Oh wow!! I loved all his tunes, but totally dug that one! Smoking, grooving, light, fun, open ears... musical!

Anyone knows him? David? Tarik?

Wolfgang's channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/hipnet#p/u/27/LgBcH8HWBls

Since it's our national day of celebration here I would like to wish you all a Happy St Patrick's Day, and for anyone with Irish roots hope you have a good one, Slainte!! Enjoy the vid it reminds me of when Tony came to Ireland for the first time and played this well known melody....:)

John

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCbuRA_D3KU&feature=player_embedded#at=19

4 is coming...

From an early 60's local program in LA, Paul Horn and his quintet performing "Green Dolphin Street." Another rare opportunity to see a video clip of the great Larry Bunker playing vibes. Incidentally, tomorrow will be the 81st birthday of Paul Horn.

This is a little lesson I just came up with on approaching chord melodies. I starting with a simple melody and devloped three variations. The lesson is a PDF and I've included a little MP3 of me demonstrating the examples so you can get an idea of what they might sound like. My intention was to give some ideas about how to put some of the voicings demonstrated in other lesson here on this site into practice, in addition to some other options. I hope some of you find it helpful.
-Tyler