Jazz

Been listening to a lot of music featuring marimba lately. I love its mellow, yet percussive sounds. You may remember the marimba - big brother to xylophone (both have wooden keys) and cousin to the vibraphone (metal keys). Playing it puts you somewhere between a piano and a drum - you're hitting a keyboard with sticks (usually called 'mallets',...

I've been embarrassingly out of the loop on pianist/composer Lafayette Gilchrist, and since he's currently a resident of Baltimore (just up the road from me, here in DMV) I felt I should catch up. You may already know him from his tune "Assume the Position" (2004):