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Happy Birthday Tony - From Joe Porter - "Calabi Yau Space"

Thank you for this amazing website. I didn't play the vibes up until about 2years ago. At first it was a very big struggle. I then seen a video clip about a year later of Tony playing Summertime and Blue Bossa solo vibes. I made a choice to make vibraphone one of my main instruments of study. Below is a old second hand jenco vibraphone which i practice away from school on. The bars aren't graduated so some things are a lot more challenging specially note accuracy

I am planning to do a masters degree in vibraphone as a solo instrument a year from now.

Thank you tony,

Happy Birthday Tony - From Wuestentrommler - "All of Me"

Hi Tony,
happy birthday and all best for your life!
Thank you so much for your work and inspiration!
Me and my friends recorded this today and it was our first recording session. Uff! Well, there is no bass player and no drummer out here in the desert, so Mr. Sibelius had to jump in for that. But anyway, you're listening to american music, columbian sax, polish piano, german vibes, recorded in an arab desert. One world is enough for all of us!
Looking forward to see you in Ireland,
wuestentrommler

Happy Birthday Tony - From Norbert - Monk Wishes

Hey Tony!
Happy 50th!
Congratulations for making it so far & keep going!
Thanks for this pool of great people & ideas, keep it going, too!
I was thinking much about what would be appropriate to post for such a special event.
What came to my mind finally was the long tradition amongst Austrian jazz musicians interpreting Thelonious Monk, because of the great potential they see in his compositions.
So I wrapped one for you!