Being in one of the best-loved bands in town — with a stylishly bookish look, plus an instrument hardly anyone else plays — has made Steve Roehm one of the most recognized musicians in the Twin Cities ...

Roy Ayers, whose hypnotic vibraphone playing and genre-blending compositions transformed jazz and influenced generations of musicians across multiple genres, died Tuesday in New York City. He was 84.

Percussionist Matt Sharrock is putting out new vibes these days. For the last 15 years, the Boston-based percussionist and new music specialist has performed around the country and here in central ...

Anyone who has lived in Houston long enough and visited some of our city’s finest restaurants is sure to have to have heard Harry Sheppard playing his unique “magic xylophone” at some point. The ...

Tim Collins grew up in Plattsburgh taking piano lessons. But he really wanted to be a drummer. Those dual tracks led him to a less common instrument, the vibraphone. "Drums plus piano equals vibes, ...

Jazz-funk pioneer Roy Ayers died Tuesday in New York. The vibraphonist, known for his often-sampled 1976 album “Everybody Loves the Sunshine,” died after a long illness and a “beautiful 84 years” on ...

For more than 40 years, Bobby Hutcherson, who is appearing this week with his Quartet at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, has been one of the leading exponents of one of the most curious — not to mention ...

The Penthouse was a jazz club in the Pioneer Square neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. It opened in 1962 and closed in 1968. It was demolished in 1968 and, in what some Seattleites who were regulars ...