Arthur Lyman, American jazz vibraphone and marimba player (died 2002)

Arthur Lyman

Hawaiian jazz vibraphone and marimba player (1932–2002)

Arthur Hunt Lyman was a Hawaiian jazz vibraphone and marimba player. His group popularized a style of faux-Polynesian music during the 1950s and 1960s which later became known as exotica. His albums became favorite stereo-effect demonstration discs during the early days of the…