Dreamy vibraphone and/or marimba music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5sg-igH5ds

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.

*don't really

cmon, 5:55 forward is the section:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzbDhE5_YbM

This is a lovely performance (love the foil on the vibes):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBOeuRRqVZMc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK3nYwxO9q8

1st of all, ^^^^^ that hutcherson track from Oblique is the greatest thing ever

2nd of all, WALTER DICKERSON albums, where have you been all my life, I love this guy.

My first thought was Bobby Hutcherson "Mirrors"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maEbMC2XuKY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4yLzVj0pos

the vibraphone is so sweet. sometimes I can hardly believe it's an instrument

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

Oh and a couple of lovely things spotify itself suggested.

The album I was going to recommend was in the OP. Been listening to Matchbook quite a lot lately.

xp thanks for putting that together, giraffe! i'm enjoying it right now

The vibe accents in this song are subtle, but essential to its mood.

David Axelrod - The Sick Rose

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

oh dude, starbuck is friggin' hilarious.

the little "heh heh" before the chorus is obviously classic.

ugh yeah that singer gives me the creeps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7DotvLIlSI

"Village Soul" - Lennie Hibbert

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

aw man :(

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

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.

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:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89t6pE91tN4

Walt Dickerson, folks, THE MAN

dude 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

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