Vibe Players
Here's a video of Dutch vibist Frits Landesbergen with Trio Rosenberg. Performing a great "Django" like tune!
NB: go to 1"20 to switch the dutch intro speach if you feel like! :o)
Smoking vibes solos and vibes/guitar discussions!
Enjoy!
- Mike Mainieri: vibes
- Etienne Mbappe: bass
- Rodney Holmes: drum
- Bryan Baker: guitar
- Till Brönner: trumpet
- Donny Mc Caslin: sax
I was sitting, waiting. And then came the wizard, followed by five young cats, who could have all been his sons! I was thrilled.
This is a clip from the 1960's featuring Canadian jazz musician Don Thompson on vibes. Don is a quadruple threat on vibes, piano, bass and drums and plays them all with virtuosic aplomb. He started out as a bassist with the John Handy Quartet in San Francisco, though he was a professional by age 20. He did a long tenure with Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass, first as a percussionist, then as a bassist and finally as a pianist.
I found this clip while searching for any video of Larry Bunker on vibes. I have always been a huge fan of Henry Mancini and he always featured great vibes players such as Larry Bunker and Victor Feldman on his albums and soundtracks. Larry was also a fine drummer who toured with Bill Evans in the 60s was one of the most in-demand studio percussionists of the era. He was well versed in the entire scope of percussion: mallets, timpani, Latin and ethnic percussion, you name it. We lost him in 2004. He passed away from complications of a stroke at the age of 76.
Hello everyone,
I'd like to let you hear someone very special... If my love for vibes is a mistery, this guy is at the origin of it all: he is the one who "gave me the virus" :o)... some 20 years ago!
Here's a link to his myspace page. Track 3 is a solo piece: "A Music Box on an African Atoll".
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friend…
He recorded it together with a real music boxe (with cylinder and crank) he had "programmed" and is "playing" too. I hope this sounds clear enough to you... :o)
Joe Locke