Crystal Silence [Box Set] [Box]

Performer: Gary Burton (Vibes)
Engineer: Jan Erik Kongshaug; Martin Wieland; Bernie Kirsch
Producer: Chick Corea; Gary Burton; Manfred Eicher
Distributor: Universal Distribution

Notes: Personnel: Chick Corea (piano); Gary Burton (vibraphone). Recorded at Arne Bendiksen Studio, Oslo, Norway on November 6, 1972. Personnel: Chick Corea (piano); Gary Burton (vibraphone). Audio Mixer: Martin Wieland. Liner Note Authors: Peter R�edi; Steve Lake. Photographers: Ralph Quinke; Ib Skovgaard. 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.

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.

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