George passed away at 91 today. Here's a nice video of his group playing "Conception" -- not sure who the vibes player is.

The New York Times has an obit at http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/15/arts/music/15shearing.html?pagewanted….

Tom P.

Too cool not to share ;)

Let's put stuff in our heads, thoughts, ideas, intervals and then work on comping. It's a great way to study.

Hi Gang,

Since we all seem to know the birthdays of our esteemed pros (both living and deceased) and we take a moment to recognize them, we, at the same time, do not have in our profiles the birthdates of our ever growing membership. Thought I would kick that off today with this announcement:

I am 75 years of age as of yesterday, Feb 11, and am proud to be able to announce that and very happy that I am physically here to experience it.

If you want to register early (last year we turned people away) email Harvey price at hprice@UDel.Edu. He'll take a small deposit and hold your place.

We're starting to get ready for the Delaware workshop again. This will be from July 31st until August 5th.

Between the instruments we get and ones people bring we will have an instrument for everyone, also a practice room. I think you'll also each have your own piano in the room.

Hi everybody who are going to come at Nico's in Sassenheim for the workshop.

Concerning my workshop I'm planning to do some work starting from classical music (JS Bach) and show some different approachs to practice this music on the vibraphone (transposition, chords, improvisation) than just only reading the part.

About this, and to be more efficient, would it be possible for you to check out a couple of pieces ?
I am thinking about :
- the "Courante" from the suite n°1 for cello in G,
- the "Sarabande" and/or the "Double" (just after) from the partita n°1 for violin in Bm,

I don't know a lot of these songs but it's still interesting.