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May 6, 2024 · Blending jazz with Latin music, pop, easy listening, and psychedelia, he brought a new post-bop sensibility to the vibraphone in a jazz setting. 13: Red Norvo.
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Best of Jazz Vibes: Music of the Jazz Vibraphone, Marimba, and M Radio · Playlist · 50 songs · 14 likes
- Red Norvo. Born in 1908, Red Norvo was one of the early pioneers of using tuned percussion as a jazz instrument, forging a reputation as “Mr Swing” for his vibraphone, xylophone and marimba playing.
- Gary Burton. Emerging onto the American jazz scene in the 60s, fresh out of d Berklee College of Music, Gary Burton is arguably the preeminent jazz vibraphonist of the modern era.
- Milt Jackson. Born in Detroit in 1923, jazz vibraphonist Milt Jackson emerged with perfect timing onto first the mid-40s bebop scene, then the following hard-bop and cooler styles.
- Lionel Hampton. It’s hard to find a jazz vibraphonist who doesn’t count Lionel Hampton as one of the main reasons they discovered the instrument. Born in Kentucky in 1908 and spending his formative years in Chicago where he established himself on the local scene as a jazz drummer before starting to seriously practice the vibraphone.
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Vibraphone & Marimba Concerto No. 1 “Becoming the Colour” puts the spotlight on the clear, sometimes warm vibraphone and woody sound of the marimba, two inst...
