| Jazz giant Gerry Mulligan and vibraphone supremo Gary Burton have both recorded albums with the maestro. |
| By his late teens he was a professional musician in Chicago, playing piano, vibraphone and drums. |
| On the band's four-song demo, only one song is a clunker, overdoing the keyboards so that they sound like a wild vibraphone. |
| He began playing the guitar and cuatro at 14, and later mastered the vibraphone and the harmonica, which became one of his signature sounds. |
| It contains more than 40 drums, gongs, a vibraphone and seven-feet marimbas to name but a few. |
| He also learnt to play the vibraphone, saxophone and percussion instruments. |
