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.
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..
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.
@@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).
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
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
Thanks for featuring Victor…we used to work together a lot…he was amazing. You sound great yourself on this!
Thank you! I wish I could have seen him play live.
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.
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!
Great! Thanks!!! Opened my mind to experimenting with unusual voicings. Especially the really spread out ones.
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).
Beauty!
Superb! Have you transcribed "Too Blue"?
Yes! One of my favorites. That whole record is great. Just listened to it again the other day.
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.
Vibes.
grande
I like vic...
My top favorite from him is "Too Blue" (The 8 minutes plus) live version of that masterpiece.
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.
Very nice playing!
There are not subtitles in this video?
It probably takes a bit before UA-cam generates subtitles. I’ll check.
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.
Very good, then Terry Gibbs, did his version.