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vibraphone

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Description

The vibraphone is a jazz mallet instrument with metal bars and motor-driven resonators that create a distinctive shimmering, bell-like tone with natural vibrato. Its warm, mellow sound became central to cool jazz and Latin jazz from the 1950s onward, bringing an elegant, sophisticated atmosphere to small group settings. The instrument bridges percussive rhythm and melodic expression, capable of both gentle accompaniment and virtuosic improvised solos.

100 chronological releases

Place	Cover	Date	Artist	Album	Tags	Other places
44		1955	Cal Tjader	Mambo With Tjader	jazz modern jazz vibraphone	modern jazz # 8
64		1956	Cal Tjader	Several Shades Of Jade * Breeze From The East	jazz
27		1959	Cal Tjader	Cal Tjader's Latin Concert	latin jazz
7		1959-11	Milt Jackson	Bags' Opus	jazz
41		1960	Milt Jackson	The Ballad Artistry Of Milt Jackson	instrumental jazz vibraphone
47		1960	Modern Jazz Quartet	Django (Remastered)	jazz vibraphone
54		1961	Dave Pike	It's Time For Dave Pike	vibraphone
71		1962	Cal Tjader	Cal Tjader Plays the Contemporary Music of Mexico and Brazil	jazz modern jazz vibraphone	modern jazz # 54
87		1962	Dave Pike	Manhattan Latin	latin latin jazz vibraphone	latin jazz # 4
6		1963	Cal Tjader	Sona Libre	jazz modern jazz vibraphone
98		1965	Cal Tjader	Soul Bird: Whiffenpoof	jazz modern jazz vibraphone	modern jazz # 95
100		1965	Bobby Hutcherson	Components	jazz vibraphone	post-bop # 67
95		1966	Cal Tjader	Soul Burst	jazz latin latin jazz mambo modern jazz vibraphone	mambo # 9 latin jazz # 50 modern jazz # 92
76		1967	Cal Tjader	Jazz Masters 39: Cal Tjader	jazz latin jazz vibraphone
10		1968	Cal Tjader	Cal Tjader Sounds Out Burt Bacharach	jazz modern jazz vibraphone
31		1968	Johnny Lytle	Johnny Lytle	jazz vibraphone
90		1968	Roy Ayers	Stoned Soul Picnic	jazz vibraphone
37		1971	Cal Tjader	Huracan	jazz modern jazz vibraphone
38		1971	Bobby Hutcherson	Head On (2008 Remaster)	contemporary jazz jazz vibraphone
40		1971	Bobby Hutcherson	Best Jazz 100	vibraphone
75		1971	Modern Jazz Quartet	No Sun In Venice	instrumental jazz soundtrack vibraphone
86		1971	Gary Burton	Good Vibes	jazz
92		1973	Milt Jackson	Sunflower	jazz vibraphone	modern jazz # 59
26		1973	Jerzy Milian	Playlist: Compiled By Jazzanova	funk jazz jazz piano vibraphone
45		1975	Jerzy Milian	Orkiestra Rozrywkowa PR I TV W Katowaicach	funk jazz orchestra vibraphone
88		1976	Cal Tjader	Amazonas	jazz latin jazz modern jazz vibraphone	latin jazz # 11 modern jazz # 88
3		1976	Lionel Hampton	Ring Dem Bells (Bluebird's Best Series)	jazz vibraphone
74		1976	Lionel Hampton	Ring Dem Bells	jazz swing vibraphone
49		1976	Chick Corea	In Concert, Zürich, October 28, 1979
53		1978	Art Farmer & Jim Hall	Big Blues	jazz guitar vibraphone
81		1980	Bobby Hutcherson	Patterns	post-bop vibraphone	post-bop # 34
50		1981	Cal Tjader	Shining Sea	jazz modern jazz vibraphone	modern jazz # 18
56		1981	Cal Tjader	The Shining Sea	jazz
99		1982	Roy Ayers	Everybody Loves The Sunshine	modern jazz vibraphone	modern jazz # 98
12		1982	Cal Tjader	A Fuego Vivo	jazz latin jazz modern jazz vibraphone
89		1982	Roy Ayers	Change Up the Groove	funk vibraphone
93		1983	Roy Ayers	Roy Ayers - Universal Masters	jazz vibraphone
39		1984	Gary Burton	Works	jazz modern jazz vibraphone	modern jazz # 1
59		1984	Rubén Blades	Buscando América	latin salsa vibraphone
22		1986	Bobby Hutcherson	The Capitol Vaults Jazz Series	vibraphone
35		1987	Modern Jazz Quartet	Together Again	jazz
42		1987	Bobby Hutcherson	In the Vanguard	jazz post-bop vibraphone
43		1988	Milt Jackson	Bebop	jazz modern jazz vibraphone	modern jazz # 7
67		1988	Modern Jazz Quartet	Walkman Jazz	jazz
62		1989	Lionel Hampton	Mostly Blues	big band jazz modern jazz swing vibraphone	modern jazz # 45
8		1989	Gerry Mulligan	Lionel Hampton Presents Gerry Mulligan	instrumental jazz oldies vibraphone
68		1989	Cal Tjader	Monterey Concerts	jazz latin jazz vibraphone
24		1990-01	Gary Burton	Reunion	jazz
30		1991	Gary Burton	Astor Piazzolla	jazz vibraphone
33		1991	Bobby Hutcherson	Mirage	post-bop vibraphone
15		1992	Gary Burton & Friends	Six Pack	jazz modern jazz vibraphone
19		1992	Cal Tjader	Good Vibes	jazz modern jazz vibraphone
13		1992-05-22	Lionel Hampton	Lionel Hampton & Friends	big band jazz modern jazz swing vibraphone
84		1992-12-02	Bobby Hutcherson	San Francisco	jazz modern jazz	modern jazz # 99
4		1993	Roy Ayers	Vibesman - Live at Ronnie Scotts	jazz vibraphone
36		1993	Lionel Hampton	Midnight Sun	big band jazz modern jazz swing vibraphone
94		1993	Roy Ayers	A Shining Symbol	funk jazz vibraphone
96		1994	Lionel Hampton	All Star Sessions: Hot Mallets, Vol. 2		big band # 54
51		1995	Milt Jackson	Burnin' In The Woodhouse	jazz modern jazz vibraphone	modern jazz # 20
60		1995	Cal Tjader	Descarga	jazz latin jazz mambo modern jazz vibraphone	modern jazz # 38 mambo # 60
46		1996-02-26	Lionel Hampton	Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz With Guest Lionel Hampton	big band jazz modern jazz swing vibraphone	modern jazz # 9
80		1996-05-21	Cal Tjader	Talkin' Verve: Roots Of Acid Jazz	jazz modern jazz vibraphone	modern jazz # 81
11		1996-09-09	Gary Burton	Collection	instrumental jazz piano vibraphone
66		1997	Gary Burton & Friends	Departure	jazz modern jazz vibraphone	modern jazz # 49
83		1997-10-14	Chick Corea & Gary Burton	Native Sense: The New Duets	jazz piano
72		1998	Cal Tjader	Plays the Contemporary Music of Mexico and Brazil	jazz modern jazz vibraphone	modern jazz # 55
18		1998	Roy Ayers	In the Dark / You Might Be Surprised	jazz modern jazz vibraphone
14		1998-08-25	Cal Tjader	The Concord Jazz Heritage Series	jazz latin jazz mambo modern jazz vibraphone	mambo # 89
25		1999	Roy Ayers	Smooth Jazz	vibraphone
85		1999	Lionel Hampton	Priceless Jazz Collection	jazz vibraphone
69		1999-09-14	Stefon Harris	Black Action Figure	contemporary jazz jazz vibraphone
29		2000	Dave Pike	Peligroso	jazz modern jazz vibraphone
23		2001-12-21	Milt Jackson	Statements / Jazz 'n' Samba	vibraphone
1		2002	Bobby Hutcherson	Vibe Wise	vibraphone
5		2002	Gary Burton	Ring	classical instrumental jazz modern jazz vibraphone
16		2002	Lionel Hampton	Satin Doll	big band jazz modern jazz swing vibraphone
52		2002	Red Norvo	The Savoy Sessions	jazz vibraphone
55		2003	Stefon Harris	The Grand Unification Theory	contemporary jazz vibraphone
73		2003	Stefon Harris	Evolution	contemporary jazz jazz vibraphone
21		2003-10-04	Roy Ayers	Searching	jazz modern jazz vibraphone
57		2003-12-08	Roy Ayers	Baby Doll	jazz modern jazz vibraphone	modern jazz # 27
70		2004-01-27	Roy Ayers	Virgin Ubiquity Vol.2: Unreleased Recordings 1976-1981	jazz modern jazz vibraphone	modern jazz # 53
20		2004-04-20	Stefon Harris & Blackout	Evolution	jazz piano vibraphone
9		2004-06-08	Steve Nelson	Fuller Nelson	contemporary jazz vibraphone
65		2005	Roy Ayers	Virgin Ubiquity II: Unreleased Recordings 1976-1981	jazz modern jazz vibraphone	modern jazz # 48
32		2005	Modern Jazz Quartet	All My Succes	jazz vibraphone
48		2005	Roy Ayers	The Universal Masters Collection	funk jazz
79		2005-04-26	Aisha Duo	Quiet Songs	jazz
82		2006	John Patton	Let 'Em Roll	jazz vibraphone
34		2007	Bobby Hutcherson	The Al Grey & Dave Burns Complete Sessions	vibraphone
77		2007-03	El Fog	Reverberate Slowly	vibraphone
28		2007-11-01	Joe Locke	Sticks And Strings	contemporary jazz piano vibraphone
61		2008	Joe Locke	Force Of Four	vibraphone
63		2009	GARY BURTON, PAT METHENY, STEVE SWALLOW, ANTONIO SANCHEZ	Quartet Live
78		2009-04-01	Vibes	Deep Dive	electronic lounge vibraphone
97		2011-04-20	Roy Ayers	Red, Black & Green		modern jazz # 94
58		2016-11-11	Rayon	A beat of silence	ambient vibraphone
91		2021-04-02	BRUIT ≤	The Machine is burning and now everyone knows it could happen again	clarinet piano post-rock vibraphone	clarinet # 95
2			Da Spooj / James "the REAL James" Call / German Cars vs American Homes	missing teens	ballad electro funk fusion humour jazz pop progressive rock vibraphone
17			Bobby Montez	Carnival	vibraphone

Related genres

• jazz
• modern jazz
• swing
• big band
• piano
• instrumental
• contemporary jazz
• latin jazz
• classical
• funk