The Four Mallet Mastery of Victor Feldman | Flamingo
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- In 1958, Victor Feldman released his second album with a US label called "The Arrival Of Victor Feldman". This record has some of the most incredible vibraphone tracks ever recorded. On today's video, we will listen to one of them: "Flamingo" (Ted Grouya/Edmund Anderson).
I actually transcribed this recording several years ago, and you can download my transcription for free here: www.timcollins...
Listen to the original recording here: • Flamingo - Victor Fel...
This trio recording features Scott LaFaro (just prior to his Bill Evans fame) and drummer Stan Levey.
One of the things that I've always loved about this recording, is how Victor Feldman uses his impeccable piano skills to inform how he arranges the chords for vibraphone. There were some new voicings that I didn't know until I transcribed this, and some techniques that are not commonly used by vibraphonists today. I hope you enjoy the music and the analysis!
Victor is somewhat unheralded as a "four-mallet" vibraphonist, and I think recording serves to show that he was one of the best. Everything he plays is brilliantly executed in service of the music, and he even uses some creative techniques to do it.
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Great. Victor Feldman was Miles Davis first choice as the pianist for the 2nd quintet. (Herbie Hancock was his 2nd.). Feldman declined because he had a family and L.A. session work and wanted a stable life off the road and the session money was lucrative. He worked mostly as a pianist then. He wrote "Seven Steps to Heaven." He played on a lot of Steely Dan albums and with the L.A. Express as a keyboard player (with the great session drummer John Guerin and Tom Scott during a heyday of session money in the 1970s). I think he played the marimba on "Aja" also. There are a couple great vibe videos of him on UA-cam playing live in concert in L.A.. I bought "All Alone at the Vibraphone" in 1978 and brought it to my first lesson at Berklee with Ed Saindon (a true great!). We went through every tune as an assignment each week. I loved "Rock a Vibe Baby", which was the last piece in the book. I had been a drummer before like him. I studied with Dave Vose and Alan Dawson, but played mostly in rock bands in Boston from 1973-76, because there was so little jazz work. I did audition for "The Cars" in 1976. They took David Robinson (good choice)- but they remembered me and I did later play vibraphone with Greg, Elliot and David (from the Cars) on sessions with Andy Paley in 1982. I always connected with rock, jazz, folk music, world music and seek new music. Thank you!
Freddie McCoy played 4 mallets and cut them down to play what Milt Jackson had dubbed in not knowing Milt asked him one day to come by and play the riff that McCoy did with 4 mallets. They had a great laugh and became great friends..
I have never in my life heard a composition that better describes going through several flavours of ice cream. Right down to a crunchy bottom.
One of my favorite vibes albums!
Mine too!
His "All Alone by the Vibraphone" book published in 1971 is I think a "must have" for anyone studying four mallet technique including notation for dampening, pedaling, and sticking. He was ahead of his time.
Having owned a vibraphone for fun you just have to pedal it unlike a piano when you can get away with ignoring the pedals.
@@michaeld5888 Proper use of the pedal with the piano is important, but yes with the vibraphone the role of the pedal is mainly opposite from that of a piano (and largely not intuitive) which then leads to dampening techniques, etc. which is why I recommend first starting with a marimba (or xylophone).
Great! Thanks!!! Opened my mind to experimenting with unusual voicings. Especially the really spread out ones.
I don't have all of his albums,but he's most definitely in my enormous album collection for sure.Thanks to this episode of your "Vibes History" series,i will be listening👂to this masterpiece song in my collection already daily now.Thank You for this series.
I've never really listened to much Victor Feldman. That Freddie green technique looks awesome! I'll have to practice and use that sometime! I've used it in the B section of dreamsville and sometimes misty and other slower songs but the way Victor's able to improv with some real energy over it is impressive
also do you have any reccs for light mallets that might work well with that?
Mainieri or Friedman Mallets are lighter than the ones I was using. Actually most mallets are.
Beauty!
SUGGEST do a similar on his piano playing. It s incredible 4 ex on Cannonball s Live @ the Litehouse. He is 1 of my hb wc p favs, along w H. Hawes, Phineas. Not a big fan of vibing, maybe will now after colliding w this quality ch.... If interested, the best VOCAL version of FLAMINGO is on Earl Coleman s swan song lp on Stash STARDUST (1984). Such a beaut ballad. An excellent limey, just as Dizzy Reece. Thx
Do Johnny Lytel. He his one the greats as well. Feldman is phenomenal.
I did! He was the first one in this series.
grande
I like vic...
My top favorite from him is "Too Blue" (The 8 minutes plus) live version of that masterpiece.
Vibes.
Very nice playing!
There are not subtitles in this video?
It probably takes a bit before UA-cam generates subtitles. I’ll check.
Very good, then Terry Gibbs, did his version.
You should make a discord server. It would be cool to talk and hang out with people there.
I’ve never used discord in my life. But the vibraphone group on Facebook is pretty chatty.