CHICK COREA – PIANO, GARY BURTON – VIBES

In retrospect, it's surprising that it took Chick Corea and vibraphone innovator Gary Burton so long to find their musical chemistry. Both came of age musically in early '60s Boston. Several years later, Chick replaced Burton in Stan Getz's band, and as the '60s proceeded, he worked occasionally with the vibraphonist's own quartet. But not until the 1973 duo album Crystal Silence was their rapport apparent. Burton once wrote, "We discovered an immediate connection, like two people who speak the same obscure language." One expresses a musical thought; the other finishes it. As in the McFerrin tracks, this is jazz improvising refined to its very essence. Like a Beethoven string quartet in which the perspective of an entire orchestra is refracted into an ensemble of two violins, viola, and cello, Corea and Burton provide a complete overview of jazz improvisation via subtle combinations of inference and implication. Melodies are circled, then revisited, rhythms shift across each other, and the timbral qualities of piano and vibes are melded into a collective voice.

Chick on Gary Burton:
Gary is one Magnificent Musician and artist. He transforms what is basically a bunch of pieces of solid metal (tuned, of course) into a modern Percussion/Harp/Piano/Drum. He plays the vibraphone like a piano, like a flute, like a voice, like an orchestra. Unheard of for an instrument that was constructed just to make sound effects in an orchestra. Gary created a four-mallet technique on the instrument that is totally unique. Every vibes player since has used what Gary pioneered. (He discovered how to "bend" notes with the metal bars – think about that.)

As a duet partner, he's a gem. I have written music especially for our duet since we first played together as a duet in 1971. We also almost crossed paths when I replaced Gary in the Stan Getz Quartet in 1967. That's when I first met Roy Haynes as well. We have made six albums together through the years – one favorite for both of us is Lyric Suite For Sextet which combines a string quartet with our duet. We never stopped playing together since '71.

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