The Hartford Courant
September 22, 2013
Celebrating the 70th year of his birth, Gary Burton, the seven-time Grammy Award-winning jazz giant, premier vibraphonist, bandleader, innovative college educator and discoverer and nurturer of young talent, is on the road again promoting his latest disc, "Guided Tour," with his acclaimed New Gary Burton Quartet.
With a brilliant career spanning a half century — including early stints with such jazz legends as George Shearing and Stan Getz, followed by remarkable artistic achievements with his own all-star bands and classic collaborations with lifelong friends like Chick Corea and Pat Metheny — Burton has much to celebrate as he leads his New Gary Burton Quartet (NGBQ) on Thursday, Sept. 26 at 7:30 p.m. at the University of Connecticut's Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts on the Storrs campus.
Burton and his co-celebrants, the phenomenal, young guitarist Julian Lage (the mallet master's most recent protégé in a royal succession of guitar greats); bassist Scott Colley and drummer Antonio Sanchez grace the 2013-2014 season opener of Jorgensen's popular cabaret series. With its intimate, candlelit table-top setting, the series' nightclub ambience complements Burton's signature style, a luminously lyrical but also emotionally-fiery brand of chamber jazz.
Burton's career has been filled with innovative accomplishments, both as a musician and as an influential, long serving educator at Berklee College of Music. These range from his early pioneering experiments in fusing jazz and rock, even blending jazz and country, to his development of Berklee's first online courses, among other breakthroughs on both the bandstand and in the classroom.
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