Gary Burton - Take Another Look: A Career Retrospective

180-gram 5LP set plus 12-page booket!

35 definitive tracks, including a previously unreleased recording of "Elucidation"

Limited time album download included

"This recently released 5LP Mack Avenue Records box set celebrates Gary Burton's incredible six decades of outstanding music making, organized chronologically and by label, beginning with his earliest and arguably best sounding recordings on the RCA Victor label where he began recording, first as a sideman, during the summer between high school and his enrollment at The Berklee College of Music. The Indiana native was first 'discovered' by 'Yakety' saxophonist Boots Randolph at an Evansville, Indiana club and made his way to RCA through Chet Atkins and fellow guitarist Hank Garland. ...  In 2017 he decided to call it a career while still at the top of his game. This box set isn't grand enough to encapsulate all of Burton's musical accomplishments but it does a great job of giving listeners both a healthy dose of it and a means by which to explore some of the great original LP stops along the way." — Music = 10/11; Sound = 9/11 — Michael Fremer, AnalogPlanet.com. Read the whole review here.

Mack Avenue was honored to be Gary Burton's final music home, releasing two critically acclaimed albums by his remarkable New Quartet featuring guitarist and protégé Julian Lage, bassist Scott Colley, and drummer Antonio Sánchez. But Take Another Look encompasses the entirety of Burton's 50+-year career, from his attention-grabbing early releases for industry powerhouse RCA Victor, through his wide-ranging sessions for Atlantic and his iconic ECM recordings, on to his fusion-era reinvention on GRP and his eclectic and generation-spanning efforts for Concord and Mack Avenue.

Music

Sound

Ratings from Michael Fremer @ AnalogPlanet.com

Disc 1

Joy Spring

Careful

Faded Love

Sing Me Softly of the Blues

General Mojo’s Well Laid Plan

Fanfare / Mother of the Dead Man

Country Roads

One, Two, 1-2-3-4 (Live)

Disc 2

Chega de Saudade (No More Blues)

Las Vegas Tango

Boston Marathon

Grow Your Own

Como En Vietnam

Daphne

Sweet Rain

Nuevo Tango (Live)

Disc 3

Crystal Silence

Mevlevia

Goodbye Pork Pie Hat

Ictus / Syndrome / Wrong Key Donkey

B & G (Midwestern Nights Dream)

Disc 4

Times Like These

Otoño (Autumn)

Quick and Running

Knockin’ on Wood

Opus Half

Gorgeous

Take Another Look

Disc 5

Native Sense

Hot House

Question and Answer

Le Tombeau de Couperin I – Prelude

Elucidation

Late Night Sunrise

Caminos

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