Jazz-funk pioneer Roy Ayers died Tuesday in New York. The vibraphonist, known for his often-sampled 1976 album “Everybody Loves the Sunshine,” died after a long illness and a “beautiful 84 years” on ...

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 ...

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New recordings from Patricia Brennan and Simon Moullier further advance the vibraphone’s emergence as an essential instrument in contemporary jazz. Martin Johnson ...

Vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson, an NEA Jazz Master who influenced generations of musicians as an improviser and composer, died Monday at the age of 75 after a protracted struggle with emphysema. A ...

Critically acclaimed vibraphonist Joel Ross brings a sound DownBeat hails as “lush, high-powered and full of luminous energy.” A Blue Note Artist, Ross has changed the conversation around vibes, ...

Bobby Hutcherson, a vibraphonist whose improvising and composition helped to define modernity for jazz as a whole, has died. He had long struggled with emphysema. He was 75. As a mallet percussionist, ...

Hailed as one of the leading voices in contemporary jazz, vibraphonist Joel Ross returns to Sonoma County Feb. 1 to close the ...

Prolific across most musical genres as both a virtuoso Performer and commissioned Composer. Roan Kearsey-Lawson is “a talented multi-instrumentalist and composer” (Ian Maund, 2014), a Classical ...

NEW YORK — There was more than musical magic on stage that day in 1936 when Lionel Hampton joined Benny Goodman in a Manhattan ballroom — it was a breakthrough in American race relations. Hampton, a ...

A breath of fresh air and a deeply nostalgic look into the 1960’s aesthetic. Comparisons to espionage composers like John Barry or Lalo Schifrin. “A breath of fresh air and a deeply nostalgic look ...