Yes, that album and his "Visions" album with Sun Ra are terrific mental air conditioning.
― Liquid Plejades, Sunday, 1 July 2018 18:13 (five years ago) link
Great descriptor and yes Visions is ace. I’m not completely familiar with his output but everything I’ve heard has been a treat.
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Sunday, 1 July 2018 18:30 (five years ago) link
My ringtone is Lionel Hampton doing "how high the moon"
― brimstead, Sunday, 1 July 2018 19:20 (five years ago) link
Was thinking about him yesterday because of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Sun_(Lionel_Hampton_and_Sonny_Burke_song)
― Uncle Redd in the Zingtime (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 1 July 2018 20:17 (five years ago) link
Donald Fagen - The Goodbye Look
― Hideous Lump, Monday, 2 July 2018 02:33 (five years ago) link
Makaya McCraven "In the Moment": lots of vibes
― mahb, Monday, 2 July 2018 08:29 (five years ago) link
Milt Jackson - Vibrations
― calzino, Monday, 2 July 2018 09:28 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSOHPUkPylQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQMLflVEM3Q
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 2 July 2018 12:15 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDGhJtEsmj8
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 2 July 2018 12:18 (five years ago) link
I wonder how it went with this girl. Maybe the lack of an update is telling...
Heh, I used to post as Publicradio. If I recall, she liked the mixtape. we dated for a while, then broke up. That was over a decade ago. My wife doesn't care about vibraphones but that's fine.
― 3×5, Monday, 2 July 2018 21:26 (five years ago) link
Need some Cal Tjader in here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IGlJIobj5c
― (V) (°,,,,°) (V) (Austin), Monday, 2 July 2018 21:33 (five years ago) link
Get hip.
https://masayoshifujita.bandcamp.com/
― The Harsh Tutelage of Michael McDonald (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 01:36 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5sg-igH5ds
― velko, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 05:11 (five years ago) link
Ordered this one from a person on Discogs the other day after I posted in here. I remember having it on CD several years back, but, for surely idiotic reasons, I purged all my Cal Tjader, so away it went. I really remember much about the album besides it being a really cascading swirl of Cal's vibes and Al Zulaica's Fender Rhodes. Quite looking forward to hearing it again.
― (V) (°,,,,°) (V) (Austin), Thursday, 5 July 2018 18:47 (five years ago) link
*don't really
― (V) (°,,,,°) (V) (Austin), Thursday, 5 July 2018 18:48 (five years ago) link
cmon, 5:55 forward is the section:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzbDhE5_YbM
― Hunt3r, Thursday, 5 July 2018 20:44 (five years ago) link
This is a lovely performance (love the foil on the vibes):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBOeuRRqVZMc
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 14:19 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK3nYwxO9q8
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 14:48 (five years ago) link
1st of all, ^^^^^ that hutcherson track from Oblique is the greatest thing ever2nd of all, WALTER DICKERSON albums, where have you been all my life, I love this guy.
― brimstead, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 18:44 (three years ago) link
My first thought was Bobby Hutcherson "Mirrors"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maEbMC2XuKY
― jazzed (it's a boy!), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 19:43 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4yLzVj0pos
― tylerw, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 19:52 (three years ago) link
the vibraphone is so sweet. sometimes I can hardly believe it's an instrument
― jazzed (it's a boy!), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 20:58 (three years ago) link
I've made a spotify playlist based on the recommendations on this thread (and another marimba + vibes one with friends on facebook).
Enjoy all five hours + of it:https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5dtl7S9x7lVFhLofmxnHOK?si=4YNtZzAkQECipb7A7Rz9cQ
― giraffe, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 14:22 (three years ago) link
Oh and a couple of lovely things spotify itself suggested.
― giraffe, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 14:23 (three years ago) link
The album I was going to recommend was in the OP. Been listening to Matchbook quite a lot lately.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 14:40 (three years ago) link
xp thanks for putting that together, giraffe! i'm enjoying it right now
― time is running out to pitch in $5 (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 15:46 (three years ago) link
The vibe accents in this song are subtle, but essential to its mood.
David Axelrod - The Sick Rose
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 16:08 (three years ago) link
I just heard this song by a '70s band I'd never heard of that features a virtuoso marimba player as one of its main musicians!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WYOn9snPso
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 16:15 (three years ago) link
oh dude, starbuck is friggin' hilarious.
the little "heh heh" before the chorus is obviously classic.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 16:18 (three years ago) link
ugh yeah that singer gives me the creeps
― brimstead, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 17:25 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7DotvLIlSI
"Village Soul" - Lennie Hibbert
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 17:47 (three years ago) link
Not sure where else to post this, but RIP Khan Jamal:https://www.wbgo.org/music/2022-01-11/khan-jamal-vibraphonist-who-merged-free-jazz-and-fusion-in-a-spiritual-vein-is-dead-at-75
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89t6pE91tN4
― enochroot, Wednesday, 12 January 2022 14:52 (two years ago) link
aw man :(
― aegis philbin (crüt), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 14:57 (two years ago) link
khan jamal really nailed a particular sweet spot for me. Everything I’ve heard by him is pretty sublime, he floats on this dreamy spiritual jazz cloud, very sunshiny and capable of really haunting tracks which hint at some kind of vast longing and loneliness. “Lovely afternoon” from his INFINITY album is very um lovely but also had this somewhat late night noirish undercurrent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mjd2VOGaLKs
― omar little, Friday, 16 December 2022 18:17 (one year ago) link
He has this great album from 1987 (first one I heard), Thinking of You, which manages to avoid some ‘80s jazz pitfalls while at the same time using newer sounds. Synth washes on the title track with vibes is an unexpectedly intoxicating mix.
― omar little, Friday, 16 December 2022 18:19 (one year ago) link
I've always been partial to "The Traveller", which I had long assumed was from like 1973, but discogs says it's from 1986. Very late night noirish:
― enochroot, Friday, 16 December 2022 21:44 (one year ago) link
Walt Dickerson, folks, THE MANdude cut his sticks in half so he could play closer to the rack and therefore faster… also soaked his mallets in some special solution to dampen the sound and make them “dreamier” and less harsh
― not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Friday, 10 March 2023 02:13 (one year ago) link
Sun Ra on piano iirc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtBtuvq581U
their duo record is a tad somnambulant for my tastes, but I really like this album. Never seen the movie
― Paul Ponzi, Friday, 10 March 2023 10:50 (one year ago) link