The old guard meets the new. Here is the phenomenon Gary Burton, before he became an institution. In 1969, Gary Burton was blazing jazz trails that could not exactly be described as traditional. He ...

Legend has it—and Gary Burton has confirmed it—that by the late 1960's, Stéphane Grappelli was tiring of being treated like a relic of the Quintette du Hot Club de Paris. He was purported to become ...