Joe Roland

A fine bop-oriented vibraphonist, Joe Roland was best-known in jazz during the 1950's. He started off as a clarinetist and studied at the Institute of Musical Art in New York during 1937-39. In 1940 Roland began playing xylophone and a few years later switched to vibes, freelancing around New York. He was very open to the innovations of bop and soon had a modern combo of his own. Roland was a ...more