I decided to try and set up a workshop in August here in Philly.

We'll have a bass player and drummer (at least 1 set, more depending on how many people sign up).

This is the unofficial notice! The dates will be August 15th and 16th. The workshop will be at the University of the Arts.

On the 14th I'm also playing at Chris' at night. So if anyone comes in early, come hang out.

More Details will be coming. Just wanted to put the unofficial word out. This will be an annual event, so as they grow we can get more pros in to hang with us.

The plan is.

Early Summer: Ireland

Easy questions, too easy!

- Whose hands are these?
- Where was this photo taken?
- When?
- By who?

Marie

P.S.: technical details should make the first question really too easy... But answer to all the questions is required! :o)

We're in our second lesson with 'Take the A Train' in our tune group. I'm psyched and hoping that people stay interested in this. I think it would be pretty cool to have someday 10 or 20 of us working on a tune all together.

I was chatting with my Dad tonight and he mentioned he heard Skylark on the radio and thought it would be nice to learn.

I couldn't find it in my two fake books, which I am surprised. I thought it was a popular standard.

I started doing some research and hit on this album from Boz Scaggs, who I remember from the 70's ("Lido Shuffle", anyone?).

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001J10RLG/ref=sr_1_album_12_rd?ie=UTF…

The interesting part of all of this was that I heard vibraphone in some of the songs. It was Mike Mainieri (vibes/marimba).

here is another version of my tune hade allasmaladic this time with guitar...

this is my arragement of billy joel´s just the way you are in 7/8 (most of the time) with my duo partner jan on guitar.still (like everything i post) far away from perfect.i hope this will change some holy day...

Hi everybody.
I was asked by one of our ex- students(Can Olgun), who's studying at the moment at Manhattan School of music, to be a guest on his new CD. Here's one of his tunes, calles "MS Traumwelt(translated, Dreamworld). The tune is harmonically interesting and has a fairly complicated solo section. I scratched in my version of the written changes, which I often do to make things easier for myself; for instance, instead of F-/C, I wrote Abmaj.7#11/C). Or, at B, I translated Bmaj.7 #5 as G7alt., because that's how I understood the harmonic movement to the next chord.

I was hanging online with barryk and I found used mussers for 4500 and 4800 dollars over at www.malletshop.com.

I couldn't believe that so I inquired why are they were so high priced. I thought I'd pass along the malletshop's answer:

I wonder what Nico thinks about all this.
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As member of Csaba Deseö Sextet
http://www.myspace.com/csabadeseo

I am working on "Somewhere In the Night" by Milton Raskin and Billy May. I first heard it on Cal Tjader's "Soul Sauce" album. See "Check This Out" link. I can't find the sheet music so I am trying to figure out the changes. I stopped listening the recordings and just played some chords that I thought sounded good with the melody. I don't know if I have the changes right or not. I'll work on that more another time. I put these chords into BIAB and started jamming with it. Spent a couple hours tonight. Had fun. Here is a snippet from my jamming and the backing track.