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$18.98
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Format: CD
May 2001
Record Label: ECM Records (USA)
Recording Type: Studio
UPC: 042282919120 |
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Details
Track Listing
1. Mevlevia
2. Unfinished Sympathy
3. Tunnel of Love
4. Intrude
5. Silent Spring
6. Colours of Chloe, The
Album Notes
The Gary Burton Quintet: Gary Burton (vibraphone); Pat Metheny (6 & 12-string electric guitars); Mick Goodrick (guitar); Steve Swallow (bass); Bob Moses (percussion).
Additional personnel: Eberhard Weber (bass).
Recorded at Tonstudio Bauer, Ludwigsburg, Germany on July 23 & 24, 1974.
Emerging as a precocious teenager from the sticks of Indiana, Gary Burton took the worlds of both country music and jazz by storm in the early '60s, recording with Boots Randolph, Hank Garland and Stan Getz. Young Burton emerged as a stylistic alternative to vibes innovator Milt Jackson, employing his prodigious double mallet technique to create a rich harmonic palette and a freer style of phrasing that suggested the melodic breakthroughs of Bill Evans.
As a leader, Gary Burton has seldom received credit for his role in fomenting the electric jazz revolution of the 1960s, when improvisational and pop sources began to intermingle. Burton's TENNESSEE FIREBIRD, COUNTRY ROADS and THROB were provocative fusions of country and jazz, while his seminal DUSTER added free form, psychedelic rock and blues sources to the equation. Still, all people seem to remember from that period are Miles Davis and his offspring. Yet here is Burton in the summer of 1974, teaming up with producer Manfred Eicher to lead one of his most visionary bands, and the sound of RING is gorgeous. It features twin electric guitars (the innovative Mick Goodrick and his young acolyte Pat Metheny), twin electric basses (bass guitar pioneer Steve Swallow and Eberhard Weber on a fretless 6-string upright) and the cymablistic pulsations of drummer Bob Moses.
Burton chooses individual works by Goodrick, Michael Gibbs and Carla Bley to form a suite-like structure that is indeed bell-like, favoring the timbre of vibes and cymbals. The music on RING progresses through a variety of raga-ish forms, full of polymetric wizardry (the Mahavishnuesque turns of "Mevlevia") and moody oriental counterpoint (the misterioso shadow dances of "Tunnel Of Love"). The self-effacing vibraphonist's accompaniment often melts into Metheny's chiming 12-string, so there's plenty of room for all soloists to shine. Given room to front his own string orchestra, Burton rises to a percussive revelry on Weber's majestic "The Colours of Chloe," and achieves koto-like gravity on Carla Bley's ritualistic "Silent Spring."
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