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Check out two exclusive previews of the upcoming Quartet Live podcast with Gary Burton and Pat Metheny. The full podcast will be available on August 25th.

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LATEST NEWS:  QUARTET LIVE didn't win the Grammy this year. We lost out to my buddy Chick Corea, a well deserved win for Chick and company.  But we had a great time sitting together at the Grammy show watching all the incredible staging and, of course, not hearing a single note of jazz on the show.  It only seems to show up every two or three years at the Grammys, same with Classical.

Having an extended period of time to create music with Chick is one of the most satisfying musical experiences in my life. In 2007-08 we covered most of the civilized world with tours of Asia, Australia, Europe, Russia, and several runs across the USA. We also recorded a number of the concerts, including concerts with the Sydney Symphony orchestra during our Australia tour Consequently our live-recorded double CD, The New Crystal Silence, was released last year and took home the 2009 Grammy. One CD features our symphonic CD with the Sydney Symphony, and the other is taken from duet concerts in Norway and the Canary Islands.

As touring with Chick wound down, I launched more touring in 2009 with Pat Metheny, Steve Swallow and Antonio Sanchez. Our CD Quartet Live was released and we organized our third tour, this time in the USA and Canada. Also this past spring I returned to South America for another get together with the great tango musicians from Astor Piazzolla's group, with whom I have been working off and on for the last twenty years. This year there will be more touring with Chick, and a reunion with pianist Makoto Ozone in Asia in June.   

 My next recording project is another collaboration with Chick, something we have started to work on already.  We'll be using our touring dates in March and April to add to our new repertoire for the record, which will probably be released by the end of the year or early 2011.  Then it will be time to reunite the QUARTET LIVE group again for another record and more touring. 

So lots of interesting projects are on the calendar and life in general is going well.  

FYI: Due to being unable to control the overwhelming spam that kept invading the old Guestbook portion of my website, I have decided to discontinue it. I regret not being able to hear directly from people, but I finally had to give up the technical battle with the spammers.

As always, I appreciate your interest in my music and the support from audiences wherever I go.

Gary Burton
Ft Lauderdale, FL