Damon Choice's hands sweep elegantly over the surface of his vibraphone, his mallets moving with blurred beauty. The instrument produces an unearthly - he calls it "spiritual" - sound that floats with ...

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 ...

Alexei Chizhik is the only musician in the world who plays the vibraphone with five sticks. The vibraphone is a percussion instrument that resembles a cross between the xylophone, the marimba, and the ...

Call it a percussionist's answer to Flight of the Bumblebee — with a twist. "Filigree," by composer Robert Honstein, is a rapid-fire workout for solo vibraphone. The instrument's bars, however, are ...

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Arguably the vibraphone’s greatest innovator, Gary Burton and his four-mallet technique — the “Burton grip” — revolutionized the instrument’s melodic and harmonic possibilities. Even so, the New Gary ...