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Vibes for Our Time

att Moran says he remembers “like it was yesterday” the moment that changed his life. “It happened when I was in high school in Connecticut. I was studying classical percussion in a summer program at the Hartt School. On a free evening I went into a rehearsal hall and decided to check out this vibraphone. I remember hitting it first with two mallets, but then I grabbed four and I just put the pedal down and I couldn’t believe

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