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- The special feature of the vibraphone, the one that gives the instrument its name, is a set of small, electrically operated fans above the resonators (and below the bars) that cause a vibrato effect by rapidly closing and opening the resonators.
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Vibraphone, percussion instrument that has tuned metal bars and is similar in shape to a xylophone. Felt or wool beaters are used to strike the bars, giving a soft, mellow tone quality. Suspended vertically below each aluminum bar is a tubular, tuned resonator that sustains the tone when the bar is.
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- Yuhan Su
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- Emil Richards
- Mike Mainieri
- Joe Locke
Starting out playing drums at eight years old, San Francisco-born Berliner is a composer and educator who got hooked on jazz at an early age and switched to the vibes at 13. As her striking 2019 debut album, the critically lauded Azalea showed, Berliner blends post-bop jazz stylings with elements from different genres; she also often uses the vibra...
Africa’s premier vibes maestro, Astatke was born in Ethiopia, but his passion for music took him to study in London, New York, and eventually Boston, where he won a scholarship to the Berklee College of Music. In the mid-’60s, Astatke’s interest in Latin music inspired a unique fusion of Ethiopian and Hispanic styles which he dubbed “Afro-Latin Sou...
A graduate of Boston’s Berklee College Of Music, New York-based Rafalides originally hails from Greece. He started out as a classical pianist but switched to percussion as a teenager and played with several Greek orchestras before his passion for jazz took him to America. As a vibraphonist, he studied under Joe Locke (with whom he later made an alb...
Taiwan-born Su has been living in the USA since 2008, when she moved to Boston to study at the city’s prestigious Berklee College of Music. She relocated to New York where she made her debut recording for saxophonist Greg Osby’s Inner Circle label in 2013 and five years later released her award-winning third album, City Animals; the same year, she ...
One of the most exciting new vibraphonists on the block is this Chicago-born musician, a protégé of Stefon Harris. Ross started out playing drums, then switched to the xylophone before discovering his affinity for the vibes. As a sideman, he contributed to records by drummer Makaya McCraven and trumpeter Marquis Hill’s Blacktet before signing a dea...
Originally from Baltimore, Wolf was a child music prodigy who learned an array of instruments (including the vibes) at a young age and eventually studied at the Berklee College of Music. He launched his own recording career in 2005, impressing with a series of carefully conceived albums that demonstrated his compositional skill as well as his adroi...
From Wilmington, Delaware, Winchester was a rising vibraphone star when his career met a tragically premature end in 1961 after he accidentally shot himself while executing a gun trick. Up until 1960, he had been a policeman but his triumphant debut at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival had convinced him that music was where his destiny lay. Playing th...
A master percussionist from Hartford, Connecticut, Richards (born Emilio Radocchia) started out playing the xylophone as a child before his interest in the music of Lionel Hampton prompted a switch to the vibes. His career took off in New York during the late 50s, where he played with George Shearing’s group. Relocation to the US West Coast saw him...
This native New Yorker made his debut as a professional musician aged 14, playing the vibes in a small combo led by legendary jazz bandleader Paul Whiteman before joining drummer Buddy Rich’s band, where he stayed between 1956 and 1963. After that, Mainieri began a solo career, playing in a decidedly hard bop vein, but by the late 60s, he was exper...
One of the leading vibraphone specialists of the 21st century, Palo Alto-born Locke began his recording career as a teenage sideman with alto saxophonist John Spider Martin in 1977. After spells with pianist Kenny Barron and trumpeter Eddie Henderson in the 80s, Locke’s own recording career began in earnest in 1990 where his amalgam of scintillatin...
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• Discover the fundamental harmonic and melodic concepts of jazz music • Learn various solo techniques • Escape the constricting notion of perfection and allow yourself to be playful Volume 1 also teaches you all you need to know about jazz vibraphone chords, theory and harmony.
While the initial purpose of the vibraphone was as a novelty instrument for vaudeville orchestras, that use was quickly overwhelmed in the 1930s by its development in jazz music. The use of the vibraphone in jazz was popularized by Lionel Hampton, a jazz drummer from California.
17 hours ago · The vibraphone gained popularity in the jazz and big band music scenes of the 1920s and 1930s, with musicians like Lionel Hampton and Red Norvo popularizing its use. Construction and Design of the Vibraphone. A vibraphone typically consists of a set of metal bars made of aluminum or steel, ranging in length from the lowest pitch to the highest.
Sep 10, 2020 · In jazz, "comping"means chordal accompaniment or support for a soloing instrument. "With more mallets," he continues, "you have the ability to form chords, which makes a nice change in texture and timbre from a guitar or a piano.
Mar 11, 2023 · Famous Jazz Vibraphonists | Essential Listening From Jazz History. Matt Fripp. last updated March 11, 2023. Drums, Piano. Whilst not as widely-used as some of its fellow jazz instruments, the vibraphone has a highly distinctive sound which has added magic to a small but highly select group of jazz albums over the years.
