Learning to Listen: The Jazz Journey of Gary Burton: An Autobiography
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| Rating | : | 4.47 (906 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0876391404 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 400 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-05-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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The book has plenty of anecdotes, too, such as when Duke Ellington and his band played at Burton’s high school (“I still can hardly believe they came to our little town in southern Indiana for a gig”). In fact, he was surprised that she brought it up given that, as he notes in his introduction, he had only started telling a few friends and colleagues “that I had finally figured out I was gay.” By that time, he was well into his forties, had been married several times, and had children. Burton also includes miniportraits of famous musicians he has worked with over the years, including Lionel Hampton, Milt Jackson, Miles Davis, Samuel Barber, Thelonious Monk, Red Norvo, Pat Metheny, and Chick Corea. --June Sawyers .
A must have for any aspiring jazz musician Gary Burton lays out his life in jazz, as well as his personal life in this brilliant autobiography. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, as he describes his 50 year experience with many popular jazz musicians and as he accelerated the popularity of the vibraphone. I highly recommend to anyone interested in jazz culture.. BURTON LAYS OUT HIS PERSONAL AND MUSICAL LIFE IN JAZZ "I will freely admit that I have a kind of love/hate relationship with music." Gary Burton."I haven't practiced the vibraphone since high school. I can go for hours, and sometimes days at a time without thinking that much about music." Gary Burton.I first heard Gary Burton many years (decades!) ago when I happened to stumble across his early album "Lofty Fake Anagram". From then on I was hooked on his sound. Burton is certainly one of the best vibes players in not just jazz, but music in general. He's absorbed and then gone beyond fine players like Lionel Hampton and Red. Walter J. Jamieson Jr. said Great Book for Young and Older Musicians. To the modern Jazz fan this one is a page turner even though it differs from the usual Jazz memoir. Some Jazz books are ghost written by hacks - this one was not.Since Burton began playing professionally at a very early age, and was an accomplished player early on, his memories retain the enthusiasm of youth mixed with the poise of self confidence as a virtuoso. He writes well in a graceful, informative yet matter of fact way not only about himself and his own music but about many of the Jazz greats from mid-"Great Book for Young and Older Musicians" according to Walter J. Jamieson Jr.. To the modern Jazz fan this one is a page turner even though it differs from the usual Jazz memoir. Some Jazz books are ghost written by hacks - this one was not.Since Burton began playing professionally at a very early age, and was an accomplished player early on, his memories retain the enthusiasm of youth mixed with the poise of self confidence as a virtuoso. He writes well in a graceful, informative yet matter of fact way not only about himself and his own music but about many of the Jazz greats from mid-20th Century to the present. He is as strikingly honest about t. 0th Century to the present. He is as strikingly honest about t
Burton is a true innovator, both as a performer and an educator. Winner "Best Book of the Year" 2014 award from the Jazz Journalists Association. In Learning to Listen , Gary Burton shares his 50 years of experiences at the top of the jazz scene. A seven-time Grammy Award-winner, Burton made his first recordings at age 17, has toured and recorded with a who's who of famous jazz names, and is one of only a few openly gay musicians in jazz. (Berklee Press). His autobiography is one of the most personal and insightful jazz books ever written.
Burton has spent nearly sixty of his seventy years as a professional musician, balancing full-time careers as a groundbreaking jazz artist and an innovative educator at the renowned Berklee College of Music. Widely recognised as the most technically accomplished of jazz vibraphonists, Gary Burton also led the first true fusion band, combining jazz with rock and storming festival stages and rock palaces around the world in the