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Dear all,

Here are some news from Joe Locke: about to play a gig in Winnipeg, he had to undergo an emergency appendectomy.

Luckily, all went fine. He'll have to stay in the hospital for 3 days and then on his way home for recovery.

His manager Tom Marcello nicely kept us informed and just gave us those latest good news...

Let's all wish Joe a prompt recovery, good times back and to see him back on board... and on stage!!

- M

Hi ,

This video is somewhat special for me... It's the last time I played vibes ! As some of you know, I'm now in Warsaw without a vibes since October.

So just before leaving France, I recorded this in my parent's living room with a good friend of mine.
I tried to put into application what I learned from the TOTM My romance.

A little concept exercise.

Warren is a pretty heavy cat in my book!

I think Diane plays this just great. The melody is so beautiful that we decided not to take any solos. I like it when singers just play a ballad straight down, one time.

Hi all!

As you might know I recently became dad of a cute baby son which makes me very happy BUT at the same time it keeps me off the vibes. Anyway I try to keep in touch with music by playing guitar (much lower volume possible) and today at the office the idea popped up to play Tony's Song for Meg in a 4/4 rhytm. What you hear is something like a practice tape with the first attempts to play it this way. I simply wanted to give a proof of life and share the idea.

So sorry no vibes involved but I will try to get back to the vibes soon

I thought this might be of interest to check out. It's a good shot of the instrument and the sticks. So now you can see when I hit a wrong note and how exactly I did that!

Here's a practice tape of mine. So let's make this part of the lesson the practice tape part.

Here's mine and here's my purpose. To work on 2 lines.

I like accompanying myself very minimally, and I like working on that.

Ha ha, the stick at the end is where they come from, unintentional. When I practice I usually throw the sticks down as a normal end of practicing something. I didn't even realize I did a stick drop until I listened back. So there's a little history.

So in this video the piano player (don't know who he is) is playing a transcription of the Michel Camilo recording of St. Thomas. Beside being in complete awe of the work this guy put in, and the quality level that he plays, I'm wondering why he did it. Well, I guess I know why *he* did it, but I'm wondering why playing a transcription should be in a concert. Anyone have an opinion?

Tom P.