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Gary Burton
US· jazz vibraphonist and composer

Gary Burton

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About

Gary Burton (born on 23 January 1943 in Anderson, Indiana) is a jazz vibraphone player, known for developing the innovative technique of playing the instrument with four mallets, rather than the usual two. He studied with Herb Pomeroy at the Berklee College of Music, where he met the composer and arranger Michael Gibbs, with whom he subsequently collaborated frequently. Burton, who released his debut album in 1961 at the age of 18, spent the early

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Discography

  • Take Another Look: a Career Retrospective

    Take Another Look: a Career Retrospective

    Album2018
  • Rhapsody In Blue & Concerto in F

    Rhapsody In Blue & Concerto in F

    Album2018
  • Hot House

    Hot House

    Album2012
  • Crystal Silence: The ECM Recordings 1972–79

    Crystal Silence: The ECM Recordings 1972–79

    Album2009
  • Next Generation

    Next Generation

    Album2005
  • Turn of the Century

    Turn of the Century

    Album2005
  • Generations

    Generations

    Album2004
  • Jazz - Recorded Live at the Munich Summer Piano Festival, 14 July 1995

    Jazz - Recorded Live at the Munich Summer Piano Festival, 14 July 1995

    Album2003
  • Rarum, Volume 4: Selected Recordings

    Rarum, Volume 4: Selected Recordings

    Album2002
  • Virtuosi

    Virtuosi

    Album2002
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