(Vibraphone/Marimba Jazz) Joe Roland - Vibe Players Of Bethlehem, Vol. 2 - 1994, FLAC (tracks+.cue) lossless

The Vibraphone, Vibraharp, or just plain Vibes, is one of the most unusual and versatile of all jazz instruments and came into prominence in the twenties. Although similar in appearance to the Xylophone and Marimba, the Vibraphone has a sound and character all its own. This tuned percussion instrument has a wide range of three or more octaves. Its' exact range may vary slightly according to the different builders. The vibraphone has a piano-like keyboard, with two rows of aluminum bars instead of a keyboard. These aluminum bars are struck with mallets, sometimes called beaters. Underneath each of these aluminum bars is a hanging metal tube that vibrates (vibes) each time the bar is struck with the mallets. In addition each of these metal tube resonators under the bars also has a paddle fan shaped device which turns (opens and closes) via an electric motor and thus produces a wavering of pitch rone, thus increasing rhe vibrato-like sound. Also like rhe piano, rhe vibraphone is equipped wirh a damper operated with rhe foot, which can stop a note and chord when something new is to be played. Although the vibraphone was first introduced as a jazz instrument, it has since had many classical works wrirten for ir, and because of its wide range, adapts and blends well to almost any musical medium.
Joe Roland, son of the Hotel Savoy's chiropodist, was born in New York, and like so many other vibraphone players started his musical life srudying the piano. Later however, being influenced by Benny Goodman, he decided to take up the clarinet and while at the Juillard School of Music (1937-1939) he majored in clarinet and minored in piano. During his military indenture in the army he had an opportunity of becoming acquainted with both the vibes as well as xylophone. It was not until 1946, and civilian life, that he took up the serious study of rhe vibraphone and made rhe instrument his own. Joe has played wirh Oscar Pettiford as well as contributing to rhe unique sound of the George Shearing Quintet. Remember how popular rhe Shearing Quinrer was, and how rhe vibraphone simply made the unique sound of that group? He has also worked wirh Artie Shaw.
One of rhe rhings that impresses me most about Joe's playing is his ultra-smooth connected style and the fact that he never loses sight of the melodic line. Roland is an innovator... even his wonderful early Savoy sides demonstrate this.
Joe Roland's Bethlehem LP (BCP #17) was produced and recorded monophonically by Creed Taylor in New York on March 25rh, 1955. The engineer was rhe legendary Rudy Van Gelder. The quinrer really shines with rhe Dorothy Fields/Jimmy McHugh standard "Sweet Lorraine". Roland's original composition for this LP called "Goodbye Bird", with its recurring theme, merits mention. Fine playing from rhe guitar of Dick Garcia as well as pianist Freddie Redd. The performance standout of Roland on this CD, and that I want to draw your attention to, is the utter rour-de-force performance of rhe grear standard "After You've Gone". This track is a real model of true vibe virtuosity. The mallet work is incredible. Also listen to Joe's highly inventive and atmospheric opening and closing to the Green/Heyman chestnut "I Cover rhe Warerfront".. artistically making full use of all vibe effects. There is far too little regularly-recorded solo material of rhe vibraphone and so this classic re-issue from rhe vaults of Berhlehem is most welcome, especially when rhe playing is so distinctive and original.
Joe Roland recorded for other labels. I urge you to seek out his other sessions. Other grear vibe players well worth searching our are Teddy Charles, Lionel Hampton, Red Norvo, Milt Jackson, the very underrated Gene Esres, Peter Appleyard, Terry Gibbs and Victor Feldman.

REM DATE 1994
REM DISCID 910A000C
REM COMMENT "ExactAudioCopy v0.99pb4"
PERFORMER "Joe Roland"
TITLE "Vibe Players Of Bethlehem, Vol. 2"
FILE "01 - Easy Living.wav" WAVE
  TRACK 01 AUDIO
    TITLE "Easy Living"
    PERFORMER "Joe Roland"
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 02 AUDIO
    TITLE "Stairway To The Steinway"
    PERFORMER "Joe Roland"
    INDEX 00 05:23:25
FILE "02 - Stairway To The Steinway.wav" WAVE
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 03 AUDIO
    TITLE "Soft Winds"
    PERFORMER "Joe Roland"
    INDEX 00 03:03:32
FILE "03 - Soft Winds.wav" WAVE
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 04 AUDIO
    TITLE "Teach Me Tonight"
    PERFORMER "Joe Roland"
    INDEX 00 02:29:22
FILE "04 - Teach Me Tonight.wav" WAVE
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 05 AUDIO
    TITLE "Robin"
    PERFORMER "Joe Roland"
    INDEX 00 02:40:32
FILE "05 - Robin.wav" WAVE
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 06 AUDIO
    TITLE "Sweet Lorraine"
    PERFORMER "Joe Roland"
    INDEX 00 04:01:10
FILE "06 - Sweet Lorraine.wav" WAVE
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 07 AUDIO
    TITLE "Goodbye Bird"
    PERFORMER "Joe Roland"
    INDEX 00 03:30:65
FILE "07 - Goodbye Bird.wav" WAVE
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 08 AUDIO
    TITLE "After You've Gone"
    PERFORMER "Joe Roland"
    INDEX 00 04:20:05
FILE "08 - After You've Gone.wav" WAVE
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 09 AUDIO
    TITLE "Anticipation"
    PERFORMER "Joe Roland"
    INDEX 00 04:51:22
FILE "09 - Anticipation.wav" WAVE
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 10 AUDIO
    TITLE "I Cover The Waterfront"
    PERFORMER "Joe Roland"
    INDEX 00 03:51:25
FILE "10 - I Cover The Waterfront.wav" WAVE
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 11 AUDIO
    TITLE "The Moon Got In My Eyes"
    PERFORMER "Joe Roland"
    INDEX 00 03:41:70
FILE "11 - The Moon Got In My Eyes.wav" WAVE
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 12 AUDIO
    TITLE "Streets Of Dreams"
    PERFORMER "Joe Roland"
    INDEX 00 01:46:65
FILE "12 - Streets Of Dreams.wav" WAVE
    INDEX 01 00:00:00

Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 4 from 23. January 2008
EAC extraction logfile from 14. January 2011, 16:45
Joe Roland / Vibe Players Of Bethlehem, Vol. 2
Used drive  : HL-DT-STDVD-RAM GH22NP20   Adapter: 0  ID: 0
Read mode               : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache      : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No
Read offset correction                      : 102
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out          : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks   : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations       : Yes
Used interface                              : Installed external ASPI interface
Gap handling                                : Appended to previous track
Used output format              : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate                : 320 kBit/s
Quality                         : High
Add ID3 tag                     : No
Command line compressor         : C:\Program Files\Exact Audio Copy\Flac\flac.exe
Additional command line options : -V -8 -T "artist=%a" -T "title=%t" -T "album=%g" -T "date=%y" -T "tracknumber=%n" -T "genre=%m" %s
TOC of the extracted CD
     Track |   Start  |  Length  | Start sector | End sector
    ---------------------------------------------------------
        1  |  0:00.00 |  5:25.25 |         0    |    24399
        2  |  5:25.25 |  3:05.60 |     24400    |    38334
        3  |  8:31.10 |  2:30.40 |     38335    |    49624
        4  | 11:01.50 |  2:42.62 |     49625    |    61836
        5  | 13:44.37 |  4:01.73 |     61837    |    79984
        6  | 17:46.35 |  3:31.55 |     79985    |    95864
        7  | 21:18.15 |  4:22.50 |     95865    |   115564
        8  | 25:40.65 |  4:54.60 |    115565    |   137674
        9  | 30:35.50 |  3:52.37 |    137675    |   155111
       10  | 34:28.12 |  3:44.30 |    155112    |   171941
       11  | 38:12.42 |  1:48.10 |    171942    |   180051
       12  | 40:00.52 |  2:39.48 |    180052    |   192024
Track  1
     Filename D:\music\Musicgate's rips\Joe Roland - Vibe Players Of Bethlehem, Vol. 2 - 1994\01 - Easy Living.wav
     Pre-gap length  0:00:02.00
     Peak level 94.6 %
     Track quality 100.0 %
     Test CRC C7844ADC
     Copy CRC C7844ADC
     Track not present in AccurateRip database
     Copy OK
Track  2
     Filename D:\music\Musicgate's rips\Joe Roland - Vibe Players Of Bethlehem, Vol. 2 - 1994\02 - Stairway To The Steinway.wav
     Pre-gap length  0:00:02.00
     Peak level 94.6 %
     Track quality 100.0 %
     Test CRC 59BE4ACF
     Copy CRC 59BE4ACF
     Track not present in AccurateRip database
     Copy OK
Track  3
     Filename D:\music\Musicgate's rips\Joe Roland - Vibe Players Of Bethlehem, Vol. 2 - 1994\03 - Soft Winds.wav
     Pre-gap length  0:00:02.37
     Peak level 94.6 %
     Track quality 100.0 %
     Test CRC EA1F787C
     Copy CRC EA1F787C
     Track not present in AccurateRip database
     Copy OK
Track  4
     Filename D:\music\Musicgate's rips\Joe Roland - Vibe Players Of Bethlehem, Vol. 2 - 1994\04 - Teach Me Tonight.wav
     Pre-gap length  0:00:01.24
     Peak level 93.0 %
     Track quality 100.0 %
     Test CRC 0F005078
     Copy CRC 0F005078
     Track not present in AccurateRip database
     Copy OK
Track  5
     Filename D:\music\Musicgate's rips\Joe Roland - Vibe Players Of Bethlehem, Vol. 2 - 1994\05 - Robin.wav
     Pre-gap length  0:00:02.40
     Peak level 94.6 %
     Track quality 100.0 %
     Test CRC ED25D5F9
     Copy CRC ED25D5F9
     Track not present in AccurateRip database
     Copy OK
Track  6
     Filename D:\music\Musicgate's rips\Joe Roland - Vibe Players Of Bethlehem, Vol. 2 - 1994\06 - Sweet Lorraine.wav
     Pre-gap length  0:00:00.84
     Peak level 94.6 %
     Track quality 100.0 %
     Test CRC FFAB2982
     Copy CRC FFAB2982
     Track not present in AccurateRip database
     Copy OK
Track  7
     Filename D:\music\Musicgate's rips\Joe Roland - Vibe Players Of Bethlehem, Vol. 2 - 1994\07 - Goodbye Bird.wav
     Pre-gap length  0:00:00.86
     Peak level 94.6 %
     Track quality 99.9 %
     Test CRC AEEC300E
     Copy CRC AEEC300E
     Track not present in AccurateRip database
     Copy OK
Track  8
     Filename D:\music\Musicgate's rips\Joe Roland - Vibe Players Of Bethlehem, Vol. 2 - 1994\08 - After You've Gone.wav
     Pre-gap length  0:00:02.60
     Peak level 94.6 %
     Track quality 100.0 %
     Test CRC BB9D74CE
     Copy CRC BB9D74CE
     Track not present in AccurateRip database
     Copy OK
Track  9
     Filename D:\music\Musicgate's rips\Joe Roland - Vibe Players Of Bethlehem, Vol. 2 - 1994\09 - Anticipation.wav
     Pre-gap length  0:00:03.50
     Peak level 94.6 %
     Track quality 100.0 %
     Test CRC B0A9D29B
     Copy CRC B0A9D29B
     Track not present in AccurateRip database
     Copy OK
Track 10
     Filename D:\music\Musicgate's rips\Joe Roland - Vibe Players Of Bethlehem, Vol. 2 - 1994\10 - I Cover The Waterfront.wav
     Pre-gap length  0:00:01.16
     Peak level 81.1 %
     Track quality 100.0 %
     Test CRC 19FE6F65
     Copy CRC 19FE6F65
     Track not present in AccurateRip database
     Copy OK
Track 11
     Filename D:\music\Musicgate's rips\Joe Roland - Vibe Players Of Bethlehem, Vol. 2 - 1994\11 - The Moon Got In My Eyes.wav
     Pre-gap length  0:00:02.46
     Peak level 94.6 %
     Track quality 100.0 %
     Test CRC 33450578
     Copy CRC 33450578
     Track not present in AccurateRip database
     Copy OK
Track 12
     Filename D:\music\Musicgate's rips\Joe Roland - Vibe Players Of Bethlehem, Vol. 2 - 1994\12 - Streets Of Dreams.wav
     Pre-gap length  0:00:01.26
     Peak level 94.6 %
     Track quality 100.0 %
     Test CRC 051EFF0E
     Copy CRC 051EFF0E
     Track not present in AccurateRip database
     Copy OK
None of the tracks are present in the AccurateRip database
No errors occurred
End of status report