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TKA Artists Win 5 Grammys
At the 55th Grammy Awards last night, TKA Artists won a total 5 Awards. Chick Corea was the big winner with a performance tribute to Dave Brubeck as well as winning two awards. Sharing the stage with The Black Keys and Dr. John were Preservation Hall Jazz Band. Newcomers Quetzal won for Best Latin Rock, Urban or Alternative Album.
2012 DownBeat Readers Poll Winners
The results of the 77th Annual DOWNBEAT Readers Poll are in. Wynton Marsalis topped the Trumpet category, and his collaboration with guitarist Eric Clapton, Play The Blues: Live From Jazz At Lincoln Center (Reprise), took honors for best Blues Album.
Corea & Burton deliver a house of sound at Aeolian
They are pros, sharing their inventive genius, their prodigious techniques, their communicative skills. Hyperbole? Hero worship? Nope! Corea & Burton are true stars and London was lucky to experience their magic. Review by Renée Silberman for BEAT MAGAZINE
Chick Corea and Gary Burton at the Barbican
These days jazz is transforming itself in all kinds of ways, which is all to the good. But there’s still a special, innocent pleasure to be had from a straight-ahead jazz gig when it’s done with superlative skill, wit and charm. Review by Ivan Hewett for THE TELEGRAPH.
NPR Reviews Burton's Common Ground
By using four mallets on vibes instead of two, Burton can lay down bittersweet chords like a piano romantic. But those extra tentacles also let him do fast octopus dances in complex rhythm, a kind of throwback to '70s jazz-rock. Review by Kevin Whitehead for NPR MUSIC
Common Ground-The Guardian [UK] Review
Gary Burton's music can be guaranteed to take you on an absorbing journey, regardless of the company he keeps – or even no company at all, as his solo recordings prove. Here is the latest in a long and unbroken line of immaculate Burton quartets. Review by Dave Gelly for THE GUARDIAN [UK]
Finding “Common Ground”
Much of Common Ground comes from their own “quiet place,” and it is the place to be: the crystalline balladry of Burton, the almost solemn majesty of Colley, the often subtle but always steady and rhythmic driving of Sanchez, the passionate delicacy of Lage. Review by Andrea Canter for JAZZ POLICE
Great Things Are Happening For The New Gary Burton Quartet
Well-known throughout his five-decade career for his quartets (beginning with his 1967 group featuring Larry Coryell, Roy Haynes and Steve Swallow), Burton is returning to the configuration and expresses great enthusiasm for the new band's alchemy.
The Guy With The Four Sticks
In the 1960s, Gary Burton was the skinny, longhaired vibraphone sensation who wielded four mallets at a time, creating complicated beautiful musical lines in intricate counterpoint at lightning speed. Five decades later, he's still at it. Stuart Isacoff of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL chats with Burton about his long and illustrious career.
The Rise of a Donny McCaslin
Donny McCaslin, a saxophonist with remarkable precision and technique, to be a merciless self-disciplinarian, a practice drone focused only on crafting the perfect solo. Interview by David R. Adler for JAZZ TIMES
