GARY BURTON & CHICK COREA – „CRYSTAL SILENCE“ (4CD)
Release Date: 7 Sep 2009
Label: ECM
Format: CD (four box set)
ECM is to issue a box set of Gary Burton and Chick Corea’s Crystal Silence: The ECM Recordings, 1972-79 a four-CD set on 7 September. The box brings together the influential and bestselling 1972 album Crystal Silence, along with the Grammy-winning Duet (recorded in 1978) and In Concert, Zürich, October 28, 1979. Two live selections, ‘I’m Your Pal/Hullo Bolinas’ and ‘Love Castle’, appear on CD for the first time in this collection. „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“
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