Here's a rare treat: a solo performance from six-time Grammy-winning vibraphonist Gary Burton. In his 50-year recording career, Burton has recorded in many different group configurations and made duo ...

Damon Choice's hands sweep elegantly over the surface of his vibraphone, his mallets moving with blurred beauty. The instrument produces an unearthly - he calls it "spiritual" - sound that floats with ...

The great Roy Ayers, the vibraphone master who pioneered neo-soul in the 1970s, died on Tuesday at age 84. The news was shared by his family: “It is with great sadness that the family of legendary ...

This concert could be as much fun to watch as it is to hear. Picture the soloist moving between two rather large wooden instruments — a marimba and a vibraphone. He’s using a mallet, but sometimes he ...

Crystalline metaphors seem appropriate for these two albums, which are colored by the combination of each leader's flute with a mallet instrument. The blend of the flute and vibraphone or marimba ...

On a drum kit, Jason Marsalis often goes several directions (meters, not Meters) at once. On vibraphone, as he demonstrates on In A World Of Mallets, it's more a matter of smoothing out many segments ...

You're in for a treat when jazz vibraphone player/composer Behn Gillece (gill-ees) performs in Flemington on April 27th. Gillece and his sidemen, organist Chris Simonini and drummer Tim Horner, take ...

Bobby Hutcherson, the bricklayer's son who became one of the greatest, most inventive jazz vibraphonists to pick up a pair of mallets, has died at age 75. Hutcherson died Monday at his family home in ...

Penta e Uno; Komodo no kodomo; Sea Lady; Carousel; Xylon 1; Xylon 4; Sogno D’oro; Scharfenberg. David Friedman: vibraphone (1-3, 5, 7-8); Taiko Saito: marimba ...

Descending into the mildly claustrophobic Spokane Valley basement of Creative Music Learning Center isn't an experience that screams pop music. Sitting unassumingly along Sprague Avenue's commercial ...