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GARY BURTON QUARTET: LOFTY FAKE ANAGRAM (RCA Victor). Despite its put-on-pop title, this album is a persuasive blend of jazz and pop. Burton's mallets dance over the vibes knocking out masterly, improvised melodies. Occasionally he forays into the fugue, as in Lines, where Larry Coryell'...
It adds up to strange jazz, and the strangest thing of all is that the Gary Burton Quartet makes it work brilliantly. The four-Vibraharpist Burton, 25, Guitarist Larry Coryell, 24, Bassist Steve Swallow, 27, and Drummer Bob Moses, 20-have been together only since July. Already they have caught...
Musically, Burton plans next to experiment by combining a string quartet with his ensemble. And the other liberated spirits assembled by him have just as many odd new ideas as the leader. Coryell, who likes to incorporate the drone of amplifier feedback into his solos, is seeking new electronic effects...
Rock music, like jazz, derives in part from the blues, and this common heritage provides the basis on which rock is injecting itself into the jazz idiom (at the same time, of course, absorbing elements of jazz into its own idiom). Recent recordings by Ramsey Lewis, Cannonball Adderley and Gabor...
Under the lively ministrations of such newcomers as Steig and Coryell, jazz's death rattle may turn out to be only the hoarse herald of another revival.