The other consistent quality about Gary's playing is that he swings religiously. All of these qualities are front and center on Gary's new album, Common Ground (Mack Avenue) [Photo at top, courtesy of ...

For Gary Burton, every new beginning confirms some eternal constants. In a way, he's not so far from where he started, ... "Common Ground" draws other connections to his past; ...

Gary Burton has a new album, Common Ground, which features Julian Lage. Credits . Bob Blumenthal, Rob Hayes, Tom Riley, Alejandro Rodriguez, and Rob Rose of Berklee College of Music.

Gary Burton knows a thing or two about building a successful band. Since the mid-1960s, the vibraphonist has maintained a well-deserved reputation as a wizard in the alchemical art of forging a ...

Shows: Thursday and Friday at Blues Alley. Shows start at 8 and 10 p.m. 202-337-4141. www.bluesalley.com. $40. Not to worry: The New Gary Burton Quartet hasn't changed its lineup since the release ...

In fact there is some comic irony in Burton, now 67, dubbing his latest ensemble the New Gary Burton Quartet, ... Like common ground, watered just right. Share. Comment. about the writer.

During the 1960s, jazz aficionados came to know Gary Burton—a skinny, longhaired vibraphone sensation who wielded four mallets at a time, spinning out beautiful musical lines in intricate ...

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate The band that jazz great Gary Burton will be bringing to the Massry Center on Tuesday was supposed to be short-lived when it started ...

Burton has never been a prolific writer—his sole contribution, a more delicate yet expansive treatment of the dark-hued "Was It So Long Ago?," from Times Like These (GRP, 1988)—but Common Ground ...

Mack Avenue. Vibraphonist Gary Burton’s quartets with guitar broke ground in the early years of jazz/rock, but not everyone knows it. This may be because both the jazz and rock elements were ...

Gary Burton’s latest quartet returns to the vibes and guitar formula that established him as a front rank vibraphonist in 1967. His four-mallet virtuosity remains brand-leading, and its visceral ...

Rating: 3/5. This is the type of lounge sound that would match the mood of a few tenderpreneurs shmoozing in some hotel lobby. Gary Burton and his quartet can swing alright, but not in the ...