Congratulations from Mexico! I love vibraphone, a life long fan of Milt Jackson and I also grew up listening to danzon and danzoneras at the radio...two thumbs up!
this is really good. it's an old vibraphone though. we use those durning marching season, ours is broken though. and the mallets are torn on this video lol.
everything about this is amazing. you should add "cuba linda" to the tag list - i searched for that a few months ago and would have loved to have found this then
@MidwestChopper9 Obviously you don't know the vibes's technique. The player is dampening the notes 'pushing down into the keys", in order to separate the sound and have a clear music to offer. His phrasing is excellent due to perfect dampening technique. These musicians are top level ! Very serious stuff.
I got into this video just because I was curious of the strange name "Chizhik" and, to my delight, I like their style of music, which is like pop sound in a free jazz form. My only critics is that..... the pianist & guitarist & drummer didn't get to play their solo chorus......and the climax at 5:19-6:00 was a little heavy and classical and could be better harmonized w/ added rhythme or whatever....otherwise proves Russian can play sophisticated jazz too.
If you speak about unnecessary movements during playing, then please hear my little story - when i was a boy and just study to play piano and violin, my Piano teacher offer me to use vibration on piano like I do on Violin. You can say, that this is impossible and nonsense, but you can trust me - sound became different, much better and even beauty, and this is not only a psycho-acoustic effect, but result of much more responsibility of performer for the quality and manner of sound.
Ды вы (некоторые) не понимаете специфики исполнения баллад, да и не только баллад. Качество пианиста аккомпаниатора оценивается обратно пропорционально количеству произнесённых звуков. При этом сохраняя поддержку солисту и выражая мысль, которую хотел выразить. Вот я лично, хочу пианисту поставить 6 с плюсом. Давно так не пёрся. А остальным - ну уж никак не меньше. Делонжефак, просто дилетант, ничего не понимающий в искусстве аккомпанемента. Имхо.
