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 ...

We're celebrating a major figure of the jazz vibraphone this month. Gary Burton has been a mainstay on the international jazz scene since the 1960s - pushing his instrument in new directions. After ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(Gallery by Keith I. Marszalek, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune) Jason Marsalis stepped out as a first-rank bandleader at New Orleans Jazz Fest on Saturday (April 27), bringing a tightly drilled quartet ...

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 ...