I thought this might be of interest to check out. It's a good shot of the instrument and the sticks. So now you can see when I hit a wrong note and how exactly I did that!

Here's a practice tape of mine. So let's make this part of the lesson the practice tape part.

Here's mine and here's my purpose. To work on 2 lines.

I like accompanying myself very minimally, and I like working on that.

Ha ha, the stick at the end is where they come from, unintentional. When I practice I usually throw the sticks down as a normal end of practicing something. I didn't even realize I did a stick drop until I listened back. So there's a little history.

So in this video the piano player (don't know who he is) is playing a transcription of the Michel Camilo recording of St. Thomas. Beside being in complete awe of the work this guy put in, and the quality level that he plays, I'm wondering why he did it. Well, I guess I know why *he* did it, but I'm wondering why playing a transcription should be in a concert. Anyone have an opinion?

Tom P.

Lady Be Good! Enjoy! - M

Another one with the duet!

Enjoy!

- M

Another one without Milt,

Oh man Bobby and Mike Ledonne tearing it up!!!

Smoooking!!!

- M

I'm totally thrilled!!!

I just had a little chat on Facebook with Mike Ledonne... and he told me that he did that great thing of putting back those incredible vids of JazzBaltica 1999, with those beautiful duets between Milt and Bobby!!

Isn't that magical?!!!

Enjoy the good old vibe back!!!

- M

Beautiful!

This is how started my day... Could have been worth, huh?

I only truly recognized the tune around the end, but it's even better I think. I love the "shadowed" intro, the feeling all through the piece, the loneliness and intensity of the moment, the "blue" colors, the "giving" attitude... the "crying" motor speed.

Franck is a French master and a member here... and of course a very busy one. I hope he can pay us a little visit one of these days.

Enjoy,

- M

So I approached this Bach just like it was a tune. Besides all those guys back in the day could improvise, and they probably approached this the same way.

For better or worse, I went a little nuts on this tune. I'm listening back and realizing I put everything including the kitchen sink in there (That's a Gavan quote!! :-) ). So I figured I'd post it. It's not perfect, but there's a lot of vibes comping with no bass, so I thought it might be of interest.