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Bobby's among the living vibes gods! How many times did we watch his vids? Listened to his albums? Felt deeply touched by a few seconds of love he can put in his music. Man he can make you cry with just one note!

That's a great power, a great blessing, a great chance for us to have him!

And today he just turned... well he turned 20 + half century!! Wow!!

Happy Birthday Mr Hutch!! :o)

i did this today.since it´s week of the practice tapes i thought i post this although the final totm lesson is not up yet. btw. it was inspired by david´s darn that dream version.

tarik

Here's another piece from that same gig. This is one of Ernie's original tunes dedicated to Errol Garner.

as a preperation for the workshop i was looking for darn that dream on youtube, look what i found :) i like it very much! the slowness, the voicings the little, quick dampening things. looking forward to study this at the workshop.

tarik

Hi Everyone,

There is a possibility that I will be in the UK (Leeds in particular) between July 2011 - Jan 2012 - might be the whole time may be only some of it. I'm just trying to get a feel for who is over there in the UK (and close surrounding areas) for me to visit/hang/play with or get lessons from.

Would love to hear from you all!

Cheers,
James

When I approach my instrument, I often do this. I used to do it with a tanpura machine (creates a drone that is used in Northern Indian classical music), but now I use the gong. It's not really a composition. I just start from a note and try to pre-hear notes and lines and build something. Tonight, it became a little counterpoint, then it took a turn to colors based up a half step from the drone, then combines the two... whatever. It's my ear training warm up to make sure I am hearing the pitches (or get an honest take on when I am NOT hearing the pitches) prior to playing.

w/ Ernie Edwards and the Webb Brothers at Pianos in Bloomfield, NJ last week

the promoter's wife had a Flip cam at the gig... I thought I would share this with you all.

Peace
randy

Been working on this for a while, so in the spirit of practice tapes I utilized my recently acquired Repeater to record a take (or ten...). Yes, I took it too fast, there are wrong notes and harmony f-ups, I skip an eighth in the solo (metronome ... metronome ... metronome), etc. Let me know what you guys hear, as this is an intimidating one (for obvious reasons). It's kind of like re-painting the Mona Lisa in a way ...

And I am still working through understanding the changes of the major section better, which is why I didn't solo over the whole tune.

Jason

I was humbled by Steve Shapiro's practice tape of April In Paris. (great job steve)

So I'm going to up his April in Paris with 3 versions of It's You Or No One.
Let's see this wonderboy top that one. Nobody practices harder than me! grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr :-)