The Vibes
Not a piano. Not a guitar. A shimmering, human voice in metal and mallets.
Music That Lingers
The vibraphone beautifully combines percussion and melody. A rich, warm sound that fills the space like air—sometimes a single note, other times a luscious full chord surrounding you like a warm blanket of love. That’s why it works so well under conversation: guests hear elegance without fighting the room.
Tim has played professionally since 1979. Paired with live vocals from the Great American Songbook, the result is sophisticated without being stiff — polished, low-key, and unmistakably live.
No tracks. No loops. Just mallets, voice, and hand-picked DFW musicians.
Events & EnsemblesThe Instrument
Aluminum bars arranged like a piano keyboard, with resonators beneath each bar and motor-driven fans that create the vibraphone’s signature shimmer—vibrato that blooms and breathes. Played with soft mallets, it can whisper a single sustained note or open into a full, warm chord that fills the room without shouting.
The instrument can be played with two or four mallets; Tim uses four, which lets him voice rich harmonies while carrying melody and songbook vocals in the same moment.
Born in the early twentieth century and claimed by jazz almost immediately, the vibraphone has a luminous lineage: Lionel Hampton brought it to the big-band stage, Milt Jackson defined its modern ballad language with the Modern Jazz Quartet, and Gary Burton expanded its four-mallet vocabulary. That tradition—elegant, melodic, unmistakably live—is what Tim brings to cocktail hours, dinners, and private rooms across the DFW Metroplex.
For cocktail hour
“Conversation stays easy —
the room still feels special.”
Warm standards at a volume that dresses the space without owning it.
For dinner
“Elegant enough for black-tie.
Quiet enough for toasts.”
Ballads and medium swing that support the evening rather than competing with it.
For lounges & clubs
“Live jazz people notice — without a nightclub takeover.”
Residency-friendly footprint and repertoire that fits dining and hospitality.