“In Your Quiet Place” by Keith Jarrett – one of my favorite songs from Keith and one of the first songs I learned way back when I was studying with Gary Burton. I can still vividly remember the lessons and Gary’s 5th floor corner office at the Berklee 1140 Boylston St. building in Boston. I also fondly remember his vintage set of gold Musser M55 vibe that he used for teaching and gigs. Those bars played "like butter". My lesson time was usually around lunch time and Gary would most often be eating a sandwich while I butchered these songs. Probably gave him indigestion. Ha!Ha!

Three swing tunes to ring in the new year -- cheers to all!
• Out of Nowhere (Johnny Green)
• How High the Moon (Morgan Lewis)
• Waltz for Debby (Bill Evans)

Hi vibes friend today i'd like to talk about the Parker and Coltrane blues form!
Please follow them while watching the lesson.

Parker blues
F7|Em7b5 A7| Dm7 G7|Cm7 F7|Bb7| Bbm7 Eb7| Am7 D7|Abm7 Db7|Gm7 C7| F7 D7|Gm7 C7
I7|VIIm7b5 III7|VIm7 II7 |Vm7 I7|IV7|IVm7 bVII7| IIIm7 VI7|bIIIm7| bVI7|IIm7 V7|I7 VI7|IIm7 V7

Coltrane blues
| F7 Ab7 | DbM7 E7 | A C7 | FM | BbM | Bbm7 | Am7 | Abm7 | Gm7 C7 | Eb7 AbM7 | B7 EM7 | Gm7 C7 |

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I think I posted this before This is a beautiful video with great Playing! Alexey Chizhik is a great player.

I liked this vibe playing a lot. She seems to really play the instrument well! I also loved the music. accessible and interesting! Check it out.

“Solo Reflection” – A new song for solo vibraphone that I just finished composing (with a nod to the great Italian composer Ennio Morricone). One of my favorite melodies from Maestro Morricone is his theme from the movie “Cinema Paradiso”. The clip features some solo vibraphone techniques that will be covered in the book that I’ve been working on. It’s going to take some time since it will be a very big project. Meanwhile, my book “Voicing Concepts for the Jazz Vibist” (available from Amazon) does have some related topics in the way of voicings, chord melody and reharmonization techniques.

I will get video of Audio and play through and talk about some of these.

PDF is attached.

As a fun incentive, you guys have one week (from the date of this post) to post your versions of this chord melody. I will pick a winner, probably with an online random generator.

The winner wins one pair of my new sticks. They will be out within the next week or so.

YOU HAVE TO WRITE THE CHORDS IN. Study this a bit, make sure you know what the alterations or of what I've written here.

Look to see when I have a root or when I don't.
Post any questions.

Putting 4 mallets to a well written melody is a great way to work on 4 mallets! Also putting melodies to other lines, your solos, other melodies is also great.

The concept is how do you put accompaniment to your playing right?

So let's study this for a bit and see what happens, how this helps you.