Hey everyone, just got back from San Francisco last week, and I'm happy to say that my group with saxophonist Ken Fowser earned the Generations fellowship for 2009. There's a cool article about it, you can go here: http://www.creativearts.sfsu.edu/node/998
originally i wanted to mail this video question to tony personal but it never made it to his mail address i don´t know why.so i thought who cares ... there are enough good players on the site who can help me out with this.
maybe some of you are dealing with the same problem sometimes.i´m happy for every comment!
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Here's a version of the Monk tune 4 in 1. I'm going to write up a chord melody etude of what I play on the head.
I'm listening to George Shearing and I hear this beautiful vibe solo. It was Frank Ricotti. I never heard of him. Does anyone know about him??
This beautiful ballad, written by Johnny Mandell and played so often by Bill Evans, makes a wonderful vehicle for explorative melodic playing. For me, the goal here is sound and simplicity.
I was recently talking with a student about playing in slow motion. I think I've talked about it here before, but I thought I'd do a little reminder on the topic.
I just checked out Tony's myspace page and listened to him playing 4 and 1. That's some mighty fine vibin' there. Could you talk about that piece? If it's not here somewhere I think others would really enjoy it.
Hello ! Me and my bass player have a gig forthcoming(where I'll be playing drums), with the very fine Scottish trumpet-player, Bruce Adams. Bruce sent us his set list, which includes this old Hank Mobley Tune : Funk in Deep Freeze. I thought it would sound good on vibes, so I recorded it this morning at cockcrow. As usual, I'm playing on top of a homemade bass-and-drums track. I attach the score and the rhythm track, if anyone feels like trying it. I'll work on it a bit more. If I can come up with a better take, I'll substitute.
The Bach English Suites make great duets for vibes and marimba, or guitar, or bass, etc. I've attached a pdf of the right hand part and an mp3 of the left hand. Work up the right hand part and play along with the mp3. It's a fun piece to play!
