Well all this talk about trios is leading me to post something from a gig I had last thursday. It is a trio setting although there is no bass player. I have a hard time finding bass players that I like to play with so I've resorted to just using my piano player friend. He just plays his rhodes and uses his left hand.

Having the rhodes, I think, really allows us to change the texture of things as we go along.

the group is:

Joe Doubleday- Vibes
Adam Ledbetter- Rhodes
Jemar Poteat- Drums

The best students are the ones who teach themselves and as a result have lots and lots of questions for their teachers..

When I teach a class and we do nothing that I had prepared, then it was a great class usually.

For some reason that just hit me. I forget who told me that but someone great did, way back in the day.

Rather than bury back in my mind, I thought I would type out here.

What's your favorite cd(s) where the format is a vibes trio, that is Vibes, Bass and Drums?

It's interesting all the feedback I'm getting about my thoughts on trio playing.

toddc, jondaly, keene and friedman are all making great points. I've been thinking really hard about all this lately. I've been thinking about musically what you need to give someone for them to be satisfied musically. The listener that is. What will hold someone's attention and for how long.

This is making me think I should read 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Again'. Some answers should be in there, as I remember.

Mike Pinto had this up over at our store! Have you checked out our store??

This is a post by Tarik:

Another cut from my gig. It's pretty funny because we were subbing for a 13 piece latin band, which explains my little latin stint at the end of the tune. I did tell the audience that they should expect us to try and cover the latin bands music! No way!!! They were a cool audience.

Here's a cut from my gig last night.

Behn is coming down to shoot some video and do some lessons! I know some of you (me too) really dig Behn's playing. So this is good news! He'll be coming down this week, and hopefull I'll have stuff up next weekend.

I have a hard time when I'm playing trio. That is when I'm playing a concert and playing trio (vibes, bass and drums). It's easy if you're wallpaper music, or if it's a short set but two one hour sets can be intimidating for me.

I played tonight in front of about 500 people and played trio. Most of the time when I'm in these situations I add a horn or guitar. I feel as though a vibes trio can get boring, like it needs something else. Maybe it's just my stuff (well it is actually) but a vibes trio concert is a big deal to me and can be difficult.

Dear everybody,

First of all, thank you all for contributing to this wonderful site! I´m new here, looking forward for exchange experiences and inspiration in the years to come.

My question for you today is the following:
I´m looking for a very light vibraphone for traveling, also by plane. At the moment, I have a musser M-48, and although I love it´s sound, I spend too much time mounting and unmounting it, and after every gig, I´m exsausted, not from the playing, but from carrying. If I want to take it on a plane, I´d have to pay so much overweight, not to mention the carrying..