Hot House Tour: Chick Corea and Gary Burton at Symphony Hall this Sunday 10/21
Submitted by Celebrity Series of Boston
Celebrity Series of Boston will present Chick Corea and Gary Burton: Hot House Tour with the Harlem String Quartet on Sunday, October 21 at 5pm at Symphony Hall, 301 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston, sponsored by Amy and Joshua Boger and Tufts Health Plan. It is funded in part by the Expeditions program of the New England Foundation for the Arts, made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional support from the six New England state arts agencies.
Tickets for Chick Corea and Gary Burton start at $30 and are available online at www.celebrityseries.org, by calling CelebrityCharge at (617) 482-6661 Monday-Friday 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. or at the Symphony Hall box office, 301 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston.
This is a Celebrity Series Debut for Chick Corea and Gary Burton with the Harlem String Quartet.
Student tickets will be available for $20 90 minutes before the show. Cash only with a student ID.
Chick Corea, an NEA Jazz Master, 18-time Grammy winner, American composer and keyboard virtuoso, has five decades of artistic output in jazz. Chick began his career with apprenticeships with the likes of Stan Getz, Sarah Vaughan and Miles Davis’s band, where he participated in such landmark sessions as In a Silent Way and Bitches Brew. Embarking on a solo career in 1966, Chick has been at the forefront of jazz, both as a renowned pianist with his acoustic jazz bands and as an electric keyboardist with Return to Forever and the Elektric Band. His extensive discography boasts numerous essential albums, beginning with his 1968 classic, Now He Sings, Now He Sobs.
In 2012, Corea took home two Grammys, including Best Jazz Instrumental Solo, for Forever. Corea’s 2012 schedule includes three world tours and four new albums: the critically-acclaimed Further Explorations (with Eddie Gomez and Paul Motian); The Continents: Concerto for Jazz Quintet and Chamber Orchestra, an ambitious new classical release and a crowning achievement in his work as a master composer; Hot House, a transcendent new set of standards in his Grammy-winning duet with Gary Burton; and the upcoming release of Return to Forever’s latest live album, The Mothership Returns.
Vibraphonist Gary Burton was born in 1943 and raised in Indiana, where he taught himself to play the vibraphone. At the age of 17, he made his recording debut in Nashville, Tennessee, with guitarists Hank Garland and Chet Atkins. Two years later, Burton left his studies at Berklee College of Music to join George Shearing and Stan Getz, with whom he worked from 1964-1966. By the time he left Getz to form his own quartet in 1967, Burton had also recorded three albums under his name for RCA. Burton is the winner of six Grammy Awards for his jazz recordings, with the most recent award for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance for The New Crystal Silence with Chick Corea.
Burton began his music education career with Berklee College of Music in Boston as a teacher of percussion and improvisation in 1971. In 1985 he was named Dean of Curriculum. In 1989, he received an honorary doctorate of music from the college, and in 1996, he was appointed Executive Vice President, responsible for overseeing the daily operation of the college. Burton retired from Berklee College of Music in 2003 after 33 years, and formed a new band called New Gary Burton Quartet with guitarist Julian Lage, bassist Scott Colley and drummer Antonio Sanchez.
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