Word: vibraphonist
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...Nobody else in jazz played the clarinet with such technical brilliance or controlled emotion, and Goodman expected nothing less from his band. Musicians who fell short were subjected to ''the ray.'' ''He'd look over his glasses and stare at you --really nail you down with his eyes,'' remembers Vibraphonist Hampton, a member with Pianist Wilson and Drummer Gene Krupa of the seminal Goodman Quartet, which introduced a chamber-music approach to jazz. ''And all the time he'd be making some of the most difficult passages on his clarinet. He wouldn't stop playing, and he wouldn't stop...
...vibraphonist Stefon Harris doesn’t shy away from the big questions. On 2003’s “Grand Unification Theory,” he sought to encapsulate the entirety of human history in a 13-piece suite arranged for big band. With his latest release, “African Tarantella: Dances with Duke,” Harris makes a musical argument for the permanence of great art, reimagining two of Duke Ellington’s lesser-known late suites and performing an extended composition...
...leaving Boston for the greener pastures of international jazz stardom. This weekend, he returns to his college town—only this time he’ll be playing across the Charles in Cambridge’s Regattabar Jazz Club. After leaving school, Rosenwinkel toured internationally with famed vibraphonist Gary Burton. He later joined Paul Motian’s Electric Bebop Band, where he flourished throughout the early 90s. Since then, Rosenwinkel has established himself as an original sound—not such an easy thing to do in a jazz scene crammed with guitarists and appraised by critics...
DIED. LIONEL HAMPTON, 94, jazz vibraphonist whose effervescent performance style and masterly solo technique greatly extended jazz's popularity and turned him into one of the music's few household names; in New York City. Born in Louisville, Ky., Hampton started out playing drums before Louis Armstrong persuaded him to take up the vibraphone. After playing with Armstrong, Benny Goodman and others, he headlined his own big band, making extensive tours of Europe and Asia and gaining fans worldwide with such works as his 1942 classic Flying Home. In 1997, two days before he was awarded the National Medal...
DIED. MILT JACKSON, 76, jazz vibraphonist and improviser who co-founded the Modern Jazz Quartet; in New York City. Composer of the Quartet's signature Bags' Groove, Jackson got his start in Dizzy Gillespie's band and recorded with John Coltrane and Thelonius Monk...