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Screaming, like a bell

Vibes player Corey Mwamba showcases the lyrical possibilities of the instrument as a vehicle for individual expression.

Vibes player Corey Mwamba delves into the many colours of an underappreciated instrument.

In the final episode, Corey showcases the lyrical possibilities of the vibraphone. He investigates how swing musicians such as Lionel Hampton were influenced by the brass and wind players of their day, and how these ways of communicating connect the vibraphone to an older heritage: that of the bell, as illustrated by Stravinsky鈥檚 Requiem Canticles and the soundtrack to Columbo. Throughout the history of humankind, the bell has been an amplified voice that calls; and Corey argues that the vibraphone is a construction made of bells - of shouting, roaring, barking bars, with which the musician expresses their individuality.

Corey shows the variations in voice-like playing of Milt Jackson and Marjorie Hyams through their experimentation with vibrato, and the different ways in which Bobby Hutcherson called to us through his phrasing and touch. We hear how the vibraphone is an expressive voice beyond jazz, in the reggae stylings of Lennie Hibbert, and multi-instrumentalist Laura MacFarlane鈥檚 choir of metal.

Produced by Chris Elcombe
A Reduced Listening production for 大象传媒 Radio 3

59 minutes

Last on

Sun 25 Sep 2022 23:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Lionel Hampton

    Stardust

    • The Complete Lionel Hampton Quartets And Quintets With Oscar Peterson On Verve.
    • Verve Records.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Requiem Canticles: Postlude

    Choir: SWR Vocal Ensemble, Stuttgart. Conductor: Michael Gielen. Orchestra: WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne.
    • Igor Stravinsky: Canticum Sacrum / Agon / Requiem Canticles.
    • H盲nssler Classic.

  • Dick DeBenedictis

    脡tude in Black

  • Thelonious Monk

    Epistrophy

    • Genius Of Modern Music Volume One.
    • Blue Note.

  • The Modern Jazz Quartet

    Blues in H (B)

    • Blues on Bach.
    • Atlantic.

  • Mary Lou Williams Girl Stars

    D.D.T.

    • I'd rather have a memory than a dream / D.D.T..
    • Maple Leaf Records Ltd..

  • Eric Dolphy

    Gazzelloni

    • Out to Lunch!.
    • Blue Note.

  • Bobby Hutcherson

    Avis

    • Medina.
    • Blue Note.

  • Lennie Hibbert

    More Creation

    • Studio One Roots.
    • Soul Jazz Records.

  • Roy Ayers Ubiquity

    Vibrations

    • Vibrations.
    • Polydor.

  • Laura MacFarlane

    Metalude

    • Into The Metalude.
    • Patsy.

Broadcast

  • Sun 25 Sep 2022 23:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3