GARY BURTON - LIVE Available on DVD January 28, 2003

Through Music Video Distributors

13-Nov-02

Music Video Distributors and Quantum Leap are pleased to announce the home viewing release of Gary Burton - Live for North American distribution on DVD. Every once in a great while, the stars align and the muses visit a concert hall to smile beneficently on the musicians assembled there. How else to account for the ineffable chemistry that infuses the best jazz concerts? Well, the muses were working overtime when vibraphonist Gary Burton took to the stage with the Hum Trio and then The Ahmad Jamal Trio (Cannes, France, 1984). The resulting performance must rank among these musicians best work, with the kind of soul-deep communication that is often expected but so rarely occurs live in concert. Jazz vibraphonist and educator Gary Burton, Winner of ""Down Beat"" magazine's ""Jazzman of the Year"" award, a member of the Percussion Hall of Fame, and Executive Vice-President of the Berklee College of Music in Boston, is known worldwide as a musical innovator and master improviser. In a career that has spanned three decades, he's recorded with jazz legends like Stan Getz, George Shearing, and Quincy Jones, pop and rock stars like k. d. Lang and Eric Clapton, and played with his own bands throughout the world. Gary Burton is a brilliant improviser with a wide-open musical sensibility which when seen in concert is a joy to see and hear by anyone who enjoys watching a maestro at work. Set 1: Gary Burton with the Hum Trio: Gary Burton - Vibes, Daniel Humere - Drums, Pierre Michlot - Bass, Rene Autreger - Piano My Foolish Heart (6mns 12secs) The Night Has A Thousand Eyes (8mins 48secs) African Flower (5mns 16secs) Bud Powell (8mins 45secs)  Set 2: Gary Burton with the Ahmad Jamal Trio: Gary Burton - Vibes, Ahmad Jamal - Piano, Crosley Payton - Drums, Subu Adeyloa - Bass Bogata (13mins 40 secs) Autumn Leaves (5mins 29secs) One (9mins 26secs) DVD Features include Individual Track Selection - Biography - Discography - Audio Selection

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