Arthur Lyman
Arthur Lyman (* 2. February 1932 in Kauai , Hawaii ; † 24. February 2002 in Honolulu ) was an American jazz - vibraphone and marimba Player of Exotica -Stils.
Live and act
Lyman grew up in Honolulu and taught himself to play marimba from the records of Lionel Hampton . He won the talent competition of a local radio station in Honolulu and played semi-professionally in the cool jazz combo The Gadabouts as a student . After graduating from school in 1951, he worked as an employee in a hotel, where he also played in the hotel bar. Martin Denny discovered him there and in 1954 offered him a place in his band, which played in the Shell Bar in the Hilton Hawaiian Village (then Kaiser Hawaiian Village) in Honolulu (Waikiki). The hotel-resort belonged to the industrialist Henry J. Kaiser . In 1957 he played on the LP Quiet Village (Liberty Records) by Denny, which was a great success and sparked a Hawaiian trend in the USA. In the same year, they separated, but remained friends for life. Lyman formed his own band, which was hired by Henry Kaiser for his nightclubs in Honolulu, and he recorded for HiFi Records in Los Angeles (first Leis of Jazz 1957). The recordings were almost always made in Kaiser’s Aluminum Dome Auditorium (designed by Buckminster Fuller ) in the Hawaiian Village. Lyman played with his band in the Shell Bar in the Hawaiian Village Hotel for almost 10 years. In the line-up from 1957 to 1965, the band included Lyman on the vibraphone, John Kramer (bass), Alan Soares (piano), Harold Chang (percussion), each of whom played all kinds of exotic instruments in addition to his main instrument. She toured extensively in the United States and appeared on various TV shows in the 1960s (as well as regularly on the Hawaiian Eye television series ). In 1968 he gave up touring after a show in Las Vegas . Lyman returned to Hawaii where he played in clubs and hotels such as Don the Beachcombers Polynesian Village.
He recorded over 30 albums. Three of his albums achieved gold status. They had titles like Taboo (1958), Legend of Pele , Hawaiian Sunset , Bahia .
Lyman's trademark were exotic noises such as bird calls. He usually played with four mallets at the same time. His signature piece was Yellow Bird , with which he was in the Bill Board Top Ten for ten weeks in 1961.
Lyman was divorced four times and never managed to save a lot, so he worked on throat cancer until his death. He also took part in Hawaiian canoe races.
In the 1990s, his music gained new popularity in the context of lounge music with new releases of his records as CDs.
Web links
- Spaceagepop
- Lyman's albums
- Nate Chinen, Carrying a tiki torch for band leader Arthur Lyman , The Last Post
- Rick Carroll: Profile: Arthur Lyman, The Mood Merchant of Exotic Music casts his Spell Again in Waikiki
Individual evidence
- ↑ It was not sold to Hilton until 1961
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lyman, Arthur |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz vibraphonist and marimba player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 2, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kauai , Hawaii |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 24, 2002 |
| Place of death | Honolulu |