Look who I had lunch with today!

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Look at that awesome picture!! Tony is currently spreading the good vibes in Korea! And they do things "in big"! Go Tony!!! :o) ps: special thanks to Sangwon, Tony's Korean student and member here, for making it happen!

Here's a very cool and recent performance of Ben Thomas. Ben is a member here. He lives in Seatle and sometimes pays us a little visit. Enjoy! :o)

man sometime you just lament about selling any instrument ... years ago i bought my first vibraphone which was in 1987. a new musser m 48 .. serial number was 153.. wow .. when i was on tour with 3 leg torso out of portland in 2004 the bar were stolen. we contacted musser at the time and they could no replace or allow me order a set of bars for that instrument. so we sold the frame and shortly after i moved from portland and took time off from the industry ..

This is how it all started. Thanks for Barryk for spotting this!

Hello guys,

This is my last etude on the bebop lessons. Ofcorse this is not the end but the beginning. I now really know what to do and what to practise and that's great! Thanks all the guys for these lessons. I was practising a TOny's lesson which is about create lines diatonically (a thing that puts you into the world of bebop since - at least to me- is mostly a diatonic music) and I spontaneously combine this with the solo vibes totm. So 2 in the price of 11!!!!

After practising this into 12 keys the g and f seemed to me that is the better ones.

This clip is from a gig last January playing Ted's composition Ida Spoons which is based on Stella. The cameraman missed the head and part of Ted's solo which is a shame. Ted is composer/saxophonist with Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra directed by Wynton Marsalis....and plays his rear off! What a pleasure this night was.
Rusty