Crystal Silence (CD)

Probably the most important jazz vibraphonists of the post-bop era, Gary Burton did an impressive apprenticeship in the 1960s, playing with George Shearing, Stan Getz and others. By the late '60s, he had become a major force in progressive jazz, working with such forward-looking artists as Carla Bley, Larry Coryell, and Steve Swallow, intermingling touches of jazz-rock fusion and even country. His musical explorations continuing through the ensuing decades, and found him working with everyone from Pat Metheny to B.B. King.

• Category:  Music  »  Jazz  »  Keyboard/Synthesizer
• Format: CD   Learn more about the CD format using Tower WIKI.
• Release Date: November 16, 1999
• Label: ECM Records (USA)
• UPC: 042283133129
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106665542
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #19372 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #1205 in Jazz (See Top 100 Jazz Bestsellers)
• #29 in Keyboard/Synthesizer (See Top 100 Keyboard/Synthesizer Bestsellers)

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Personnel: Chick Corea (piano); Gary Burton (vibraphone).



Recorded at Arne Bendiksen Studio, Oslo, Norway on November 6, 1972.

This 1973 album of piano and vibraphone duets helped to put ECM Records on the map. Others might trace a line that began here and led to the wallpaper monotony of new age music. But Burton and Corea can't be held responsible for that. CRYSTAL SILENCE is filled with invention, surprise, humor, sadness, and tremendous verve. The interplay is perfect--the two instruments dance around one another and merge into a single voice. It also helps that the material is equal to these two fine players, always spurring them on.

There are five pieces by Corea, three more by bass player Steve Swallow (who worked with Burton through most of the sixties), and one by British composer Michael Gibbs. What is most striking is the manner in which a melody can start on one instrument and then continue on the other. They pass themes and embellishments back and forth with the ease of a weaver. This is an exceptional album of great beauty.

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