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 ...

In the recently released documentary film Talking Sticks: A Musical Journey, world-renowned vibraphone and marimba player Arthur Lipner travels the globe, exploring the roots and evolution of melodic ...

Legendary bandleader Lionel Hampton, who popularized the vibraphone as a jazz instrument and whose famed musical career spanned six decades, died of heart failure yesterday at Mount Sinai Hospital. He ...

The legend goes like this: In 1930, jazz drummer Lionel Hampton was performing a gig at the NBC studios. In those days, and for a long time to come, the sound that identified NBC was three notes ...

Corey Mwamba delves into the many colours of an under-appreciated instrument: the vibraphone. In the first episode of a new three-part series, Corey explores different ways in which the vibraphone has ...