Teddy Charles
Hi all,
In his last post, Gary Burton talked about Teddy Charles. I thought it was a good opportunity to go ahead on our little tour of great vibists lives.
In a former post, we had talked about how many vibists had long lives. At 80, Teddy Charles is surely a very good example!
I was watching this video and thinking about ALL the different types of sets Gary has played on. I'm sure he wouldn't carry his everywhere.
I was wondering what he had to go up against sometimes?
I know our school lent him a Musser that wasn't in great shape. the legs were bent in and bending. It would have worked fine but might have looked a bit odd on stage!
Here is another great video of Mike mainieri of one of my fav track of Steps "Bullet Train"
I am still working on Sword of Whispers. I am internalizing it a bit more but my timing and hand independence could use some work. I was trying to keep a pulse in the left hand, using the rhythm of Vince Guaraldi's "Cast Your Fate to the Wind", which is syncopated like Joe's gentle intro in the lead sheet.
Hey someone sent me this link:
http://ahsjazz.googlepages.com/youtubevideolinks
It's kind of handy even though they left Bobby of the Vibes list :o)!
Anyway, I clicked on Milt and this was the first vid that came up. Maybe you have already seen it?
I hadn't posted anything in a long while and so I went digging. Here's a recording I did in 2006 of "It Might As Well Be Spring". Tony and Ed also did a version of this and it hasn't been posted here yet so I thought with the season changing, this would be a good one to post. You have to be patient because it's another one with a long intro. My objective to these long intros is to have fun with it and create an ambience that would make the vibe sound bigger when it actually comes in with the arrangement.
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7th International Competition for
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>From the 7th to the 12th September 2009 the “International Competition for Marimba, Vibraphone, Timpani, Snare Drum, Drumset and Composition for Percussion Instruments and Drumset” will take place in Fermo-Marche (Italy). The competition is organized by the Italy Percussive
So I went down to Brazil today and recorded this tune. :-)
The recent video that was posted of Gary playing this inspired me to work on it again. Gary's version is probably for me the greatest example of solo vibe playing ever recorded. Working on this tune only strengthens that opinion for me.
We'll see about the solo section, I've been messing around with it. It's pretty tricky. But I thought for fun I'd post this much of what I've been working on.
I figure if you're gonna learn you might as well learn from the masters and pick up what you can!!!
