The legend goes like this: In 1930, jazz drummer Lionel Hampton was performing a gig at the NBC studios. In those days, and for a long time to come, the sound that identified NBC was three notes ...

I’ve always played a lot of different instruments. At a certain point, though, I kind of just opted to push vibraphone as my brand. I’m not a super great player, actually. I don’t think anyone from ...

Today, a number of drummers, including Ches Smith and Kenny Wollesen, also double on vibraphone, underscoring the instrument's fundamentally percussive nature. In the hands of Bobby Naughton, however, ...

For our summer series "The World's a Stage," we meet Preyas Roy, a man who plays the vibraphone on a busy Chicago street corner. And now to The World's A Stage, our summer series, taking us to a ...

From Ann Arbor, MI, and now based in Philadelphia, Oliver Mayman is a vibraphonist, composer, and educator. Beginning on the drums and piano, the vibraphone was an apt discovery as a teenager – the ...

Corey Mwamba delves into the many colours of an under-appreciated instrument: the vibraphone. In the first episode of a new three-part series, Corey explores different ways in which the vibraphone has ...

Percussionist Matt Sharrock is putting out new vibes these days. For the last 15 years, the Boston-based percussionist and new music specialist has performed around the country and here in central ...

Vibraphone players are something of a rare breed in jazz music, sometimes a happy accident, Mark Sherman being one of them. Serendipity is known to take its time, so perhaps it is no surprise that ...

Ep. 2/3 - Hit It! In the second episode of this three-part series, vibes player Corey Mwamba delves into the many colours of an underappreciated instrument. The vibraphone is a tuned percussion ...