I'm impressed with his performance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gapgZH4noE4#t=173

But even more so, with hers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hc8zk5i6aA

I saw the BBC Young musician of the year on TV

I didn't even realize when your > Grade 8 you use 2 sticks IN EACH HAND

Holy shamoza

The legendary Sir Patrick Moore in action https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otCZi1srQ44

I've always thought the xylophone "unmusical" whereas the vibraphone, a xylophone with some resonator tubes and butterfly valves, to produce the vibrato, can be such a sensitive and expressive instrument.

Lionel Hampton.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4GFdJ_cJyo

Milt Jackson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmM40KQEEkc

It was often a "second instrument." Our own noted tenor sax player the late Tubby Hayes, could play both the flute and also the vibraphone.

I agree that the vibraphone is more expressive than the xylophone.

This is a young Gary Burton playing the vibraphone with 4 mallets:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHR3F7vp1uc



Here he is in 2011 with Pat Metheny:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rsj3yebGBvI


I always felt that Milt Jackson's playing was more restrained when he was a member of The Modern Jazz Quartet, playing "chamber jazz", but more swinging when playing with other jazz musicians outside the quartet, or within his own groups.

I quite like Gary Burton, I've had this album for at least forty years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl0opZ92txE

I haven't got that Larry Coryell/Gary Burton album, nor have i heard it, but the tune sounds nice.

I also like Milt Jackson - Here's another vibraphone/guitar combination:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDorWO9zmX0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXSeItFFj74

In a quartet with Horace Silver:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K943pNld75Q



I like Cal Tjader too - This is the tune For All We Know, from his sextet album recorded with Stan Getz in 1958 - The pianist is Vince Guaraldi, of Charlie Brown fame:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHuibXwWZ1Y

He recorded a lot of Latin American music as well - This is the tune Midnight Sun:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsq5dNn8Pec

Some good choices there.


Here's another favourite track from an album I've had since my teens (I've a lot of Shelly Manne albums).

Here it's our own Victor Feldman on vibes.

Both Candoli brothers have been featured several times this year on TV, in the Kim Novak film "Bell Book & Candle."


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hGh5UqJNgM

I've not listened to my CD of the Peter Gunn album for a while - I think Shelly Manne put together some good small groups, i like his Blackhawk recordings.

I always considered his "My Fair Lady" album with André Previn and Leroy Vinnegar, "the dummies introduction to modern jazz."

A bit of trivia.

This album was freely available for purchase, when no recording of any of the songs were allowed on the radio in the UK or any other recordings sold, before the show opened in the West-End following it's success on Broadway. Such was the disdain held of modern jazz by the producers.

Leroy Vinnegar, reportedly bitched to the press about the session fee he got for playing on this album, which went on to be the best selling jazz album of the time.

When asked by a reporter, Shelly Manne was unapologetic, citing the fact that he'd previously played the drums on Peggy Lee's "Fever" a million selling single and got the union rate for the gig. $25.00 and didn't bitch about it.

Great tune. I bought the Duke Elllington album Money Jungle with his version (I think it's the original) in a tiny record shop in Harrogate last year. It's wonderful.

Here's the Modern Jazz Quartet with a mellow latin-tinged arrangement of a Tim Hardin composition which sounds like it's never going to get going until Milt Jackson bursts into action on vibes.

http://youtu.be/iUGG3dDU0vI

And how about some duelling vibes?

http://youtu.be/8oHQbknUUlM

Some good choices there.

A couple of greats

Tal Farlow and Red Norvo, such a relaxed style..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kjl2LPLjWPw