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LATEST NEWS:  On February 8, 2009, Chick Corea and I were awarded the Grammy for Best Instrumental Jazz Recording  for The New Crystal Silence (the most recent of six Grammy awards I have received from 1972 to the present).

Hello everyone,

It’s about time I caught up with this welcome letter on my site. I wrapped up two and a half years of touring with Chick Corea mid-2008. Having an extended period of time to create music with Chick was one of the most satisfying musical experiences in my life. 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. 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 with Pat Metheny, Steve Swallow and Antonio Sanchez. Our CD Quartet Live was released recently and we tour again in the USA and Canada in mid-June. 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.  Next year there will be more touring with Chick, and a reunion with pianist Makoto Ozone is being planned.  Makoto and I will make a duet tour of Japan in June 2010 and include some other Asian countries as well. 

 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