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Gary Burton (born January 23, 1943) is an American jazz vibraphonist, composer, and educator. Burton developed a pianistic style of four-mallet technique as an alternative to the prevailing two-mallet technique. This approach caused him to be heralded as an innovator, and his sound and technique are widely imitated.
28. Juni 2024 · Hailed as an innovative musical giant that “makes jazz one of the gifts from God” (Jazz Weekly), Gary Burton is internationally recognized for his iconic jazz-rock sound and prodigious 50-plus-year career.
Few individuals have had as meaningful an impact on music and music education as jazz fusion pioneer and decorated Berklee alumnus Gary Burton ’62 ’89H. The vibraphonist made his presence felt early in his career, becoming the youngest winner of DownBeat ’s Jazzman of the Year in 1968, and his star never seemed to stop rising.
In his new memoir, Learning to Listen: The Jazz Journey of Gary Burton, the celebrated vibist offers an in-depth glimpse of his professional and personal life. Burton’s peregrination began in rural Indiana where he began playing marimba in 1949 at the age of six.
28. März 2015 · This interview was first published at All About Jazz in April 1999. Vibraphonist, composer and teacher, Gary Burton was among the first modern jazz musicians to come out of the fertile American Midwestern musical ground from which Pat Metheny and others later grew.
Für den Titel Alone At Last erhielt Burton 1973 einen Grammy für die Beste Jazz-Darbietung eines Solisten. Seit diesem Jahr wurden seine Platten vom Label ECM herausgebracht. Die mit Chick Corea eingespielten Platten Crystal Silence (1972) und Duet (1979) wurden dabei mehrfach ausgezeichnet.
Vibraphonist, bandleader, and educator Gary Burton's four-mallet technique on the vibraphone gave the instrument a new musical vocabulary in jazz and a fuller, more piano-like sound than the traditional two-mallet approach.
