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Stan Gets - Gary Burton - London School Of Economics

tonymiceli 10 July 2025

This is a video many of us have probably seen, this version is colorized which is cool. 

For me they play one of my most favorite songs 'A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square'. Also the third song they play is one of Gary's and I love to see how much the audience loves his playing and the song. I imagine Gary just floored musicians and especially percussionists. No one had played like this in 1966. He was the first. A must watch!

BTW - I got this off an app I wrote to post a vibe player every day. The player, a bio (if it finds one on wikipedia) and a video from youtube. I am seeing some vibe players and cds I never heard! If you want to check it out it's here. https://vibecddatabase.web.app/

I did the code with some help form AI, so if it crashes, just understand I'm not a programmer, but so far it has been working well!

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DrBobM55 Thu, 07/10/2025 - 21:15

I wonder who the manufacturers of mallets were back then. I think Musser had an assortment of mallets. I also remember Musser's fiberglass mallets. They weren't good. My teacher had several pairs of mallets made by Billy Dorn, who was a studio percussionist. I remember playing with the Billy Dorn mallets and thought they sounded really good. Gary, if you read this, tell us where you got your mallets back then. How old were you when you wrote The Sunset Bell?

Vince H Wed, 07/16/2025 - 11:57

Original Gary Burton mallets I knew about were by a guy they called "Bill Marimba." Maybe that was Billy Dorn? I still have my original Bill Marimba Burton mallets -- but only the cores. I've rewrapped and replaced the shafts more times than I can count. No longer using them much. The cores gradually harden over time. I believe I got them in '74.

DrBobM55 Wed, 07/16/2025 - 22:13

I also have a set of Bill Marimba, Gary Burton mallets. I bought them in 1973 at a percussion symposium in Madison, Wisconsin. Bill was running around barefoot, selling them in the hallway. The mallets came in paper bags that would be used to hold a wine bottle. I can't remember what I paid for them. Gary was teaching at the symposium, and I was in his class. Once, Gary borrowed my mallets to demonstrate something. I felt God had touched them, so I never washed them. The Billy Dorn mallets I remember were quite different. I don't know why the photo is upside down. Life is hard sometimes.

 

tonymiceli Thu, 07/17/2025 - 11:18

We have mike mainieri next month for the coffee house. I think the story goes: he was in an airport and he pulled some mallets out of his buddies bag and started to bang them on a table. He said these are nice, who’s mallets are they. His buddy laughed and said they are yours! He said I don’t have any mallets in my name. But I think Bill Marimba just put the artists names on the mallets. I heard he went to Israel to become a rabbi. 

I my have things confused here, I’m sure someone will fix my story if it is wrong! 

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