recommend me some xylophone heat

ladydayladyday 623 Posts
edited November 2015 in Music Talk
I'm looking for joints where xylophone is a main or featured instrument. Feel free to expand out in concentric circles to include vibraphone, marimba, glockenspeil, or any other melodic percussion type instrument played with mallets.Hit me with some xylophone
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  • batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts
     


  • jaymackjaymack 5,199 Posts
    obviously ayers and burton.
    stark reality got the distortion.
    nasty.

  • parsecparsec 5,087 Posts
    Bobby Hutcherson
    Khan Jamal
    Walt Dickerson
    Buddy Montgomery
    Roy Ayers
    Gunter Hampel
    Bobby Naughton
    Karl Berger
    Milt Jackson

    to name a few...

  • CousinLarryCousinLarry 4,618 Posts
    lionel hampton


  • progbeatzprogbeatz 451 Posts
    What are those Sun Ra tunes with the bass marimba?

  • sabadabadasabadabada 5,966 Posts
    TJADER



  • 6fran506fran50 266 Posts


  • TREWTREW 2,037 Posts

    dave pike, been feeling his stuff on atlantic lately..

  • Agent45Agent45 451 Posts
    We've gone this far in the thread and I'm the first to mention Dave Pike??

    EDIT: TREW beat me by mere seconds!!!

  • Garcia_VegaGarcia_Vega 2,428 Posts
    Billy Wooten, haha

    The Gilberto Sextet got some xylephone joints, later Joe Cuba records do too.

  • BelsonBelson 880 Posts
    Johnny Lytle - The Loop

    Uh-huh

  • bassiebassie 11,710 Posts
    Reg Kehoe and Marimba Queens
    Johnny Otis

  • TREWTREW 2,037 Posts
    this far in the thread

    haha

    lionel hampton gets no love

  • CousinLarryCousinLarry 4,618 Posts
    this far in the thread

    haha

    lionel hampton gets no love

    take another look

  • bassiebassie 11,710 Posts
    lionel hampton

  • Big_StacksBig_Stacks "I don't worry about hittin' power, cause I don't give 'em nuttin' to hit." 4,670 Posts
    Hey,

    Here are some more:

    -Terry Gibbs.
    -The Silhouettes.
    -Gary McFarland.
    -Modern Jazz Quartet.

    Peace,

    Big Stacks from Kakalak

  • parsecparsec 5,087 Posts
     

    Milton Simons

     

  • bassiebassie 11,710 Posts

    -Modern Jazz Quartet.



    amazing - have they a bad record? i think not!

    (if they do, don't tell me, i like the bliss of loving them)

  • Big_StacksBig_Stacks "I don't worry about hittin' power, cause I don't give 'em nuttin' to hit." 4,670 Posts

    -Modern Jazz Quartet.



    amazing - have they a bad record? i think not!

    (if they do, don't tell me, i like the bliss of loving them)

    Definitely some nice coolout. I especially love their "Collaboration" album with Laurindo Almeida.

    Peace,

    Big Stacks from Kakalak

  • 6fran506fran50 266 Posts
    and also lem winchester on the bop side ...

  • MjukisMjukis 1,675 Posts
    And of course




    Straight from the Thrill jockey thread. I was pretty amazed when I saw them to the third song on TNT live - three dudes on the vibes banging it out.

  • MjukisMjukis 1,675 Posts
    And if I'm allowed to further expand in said concentric circles, no home is complete without at least one recording of javanese gamelan. I was at the Roskilde festival this year and a gamelan group was playing there, not on stage, just at the festival. Dressed up in traditional costume, about 12 people. Seeing that music performed live is

  • No mention of Gary Burton?

  • Big_StacksBig_Stacks "I don't worry about hittin' power, cause I don't give 'em nuttin' to hit." 4,670 Posts
    No mention of Gary Burton?

    See page 1 homeslice.

    Peace,

    Big Stacks from Kakalak

  • awallawall 673 Posts
    And of course





    Straight from the Thrill jockey thread. I was pretty amazed when I saw them to the third song on TNT live - three dudes on the vibes banging it out.

    yeah except steve reich did the EXACT same thing like three decades ago and it's three thousand times better

    you need "music for mallet instruments, voices, and organ" and this



  • Sun_FortuneSun_Fortune 1,374 Posts
    What are those Sun Ra tunes with the bass marimba?

    heliocentric worlds and astro black

  • MjukisMjukis 1,675 Posts
    That may be but the javanese gamelan musicians did it before Steve Reich...

  • SnagglepusSnagglepus 1,756 Posts
    Lennie Hibbert - Creation



    Lennie Hibbert - More Creation



    Essential reggae. You can check out audio for "Creation" at:

    http://www.turntablelab.com/vinyl/173/555/4462.html

    Though "More Creation" is probably the better record. I couldn't easily find audio for that.

  • awallawall 673 Posts
    That may be but the javanese gamelan musicians did it before Steve Reich...

    in some sense yes, although reich admits to being more african influenced. are you sure you don't mean balinese gamelan and not javense? javense has some marimba esque instruments (called the demung, saron and peking according to size). balinese uses metallophone instruments (i belive they are called "gangsa") which are much closer to xylophones or vibes soundwise. but you are right, reich's approach to interlocking repititious melody lines is more similar to javanese style.

    i studied javanese gamelan and played in an ensemble for a short period of time.
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