The New Crystal Silence

2008 live album by Chick Corea & Gary Burton

Live album by

Chick Corea & Gary Burton

Released

February 5, 2008^[1]

Recorded

May and July 2007

Genre

Jazz

Length

122:58

Label

Concord

Producer

Chick Corea, Gary Burton

Gary Burton & Chick Corea chronology

In Concert, Zürich, October 28, 1979
(1980)

The New Crystal Silence
(2008)

Chick Corea chronology

5trios - 5. Brooklyn, Paris to Clearwater
(2007)

The New Crystal Silence
(2008)

Duet
(2008)

Gary Burton chronology

Next Generation
(2005)

The New Crystal Silence
(2008)

Quartet Live
(2009)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]
BBC Review	(positive) ^[3]

The New Crystal Silence is a 2008 live jazz album by pianist Chick Corea and vibraphonist Gary Burton. It was released in a two-disc set. The first disc was recorded on May 10 and 12, 2007, at the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall. The second disc was recorded on July 7, 2007, at Bjornsonhuset in Molde, Norway, except for the track "Señor Mouse", which was recorded July 13, 2007, at the Auditorio de Tenerife in Canary Island, Spain.

Reception

The album peaked number 11 on the Billboard Top Jazz album charts^[4] and also won the Grammy awards for the Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group.

Track listing

Disc one

"Duende" (Corea) – 10:54
"Love Castle" (Corea) – 12:41
"Brasilia" (Corea) – 9:38
"Crystal Silence" (Corea) – 14:09
"La Fiesta" (Corea) – 13:35

Disc two

"Bud Powell" (Corea) – 7:55
"Waltz for Debby" (Bill Evans) – 8:03
"Alegria" (Corea) – 5:49
"No Mystery" (Corea) – 9:12
"Señor Mouse" (Corea) – 9:10
"Sweet and Lovely" (Gus Arnheim, Charles Daniels, Harry Tobias) – 6:56
"I Love You Porgy" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin & DuBose Heyward) – 4:09
"La Fiesta" (Corea) – 10:41

Personnel

Chick Corea – piano
Gary Burton – vibraphone
Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Jonathan Stockhammer – conductor

Chart performance

Year	Chart	Position
2008	Billboard Top Jazz Albums	11^[4]

References

^ "Chick Corea & Gary Burton: The New Crystal Silence" (PDF). PressRoom37Stage/Concord Music Group. Retrieved October 4, 2022.
^ "allmusic ((( The New Crystal Silence > Overview )))". www.allmusic.com. Retrieved 2010-03-28.
^ "BBC - Music - Review of Chick Corea & Gary Burton - New Crystal Silence". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2010-03-28.
^ ^a ^b "The New Crystal Silence - Chick Corea | Awards | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 27 October 2013.

Chick Corea

Chick Corea discography

As
leader

Tones for Joan's Bones (1968)
Now He Sings, Now He Sobs (1968)
Circling In (1975)
Is (1969)
Sundance (1972)
The Song of Singing (1970)
A.R.C. (1971) (with Dave Holland & Barry Altschul)
The Leprechaun (1976)
My Spanish Heart (1976)
The Mad Hatter (1978)
Secret Agent (1978)
Friends (1978)
Tap Step (1980)
Three Quartets (1981)
Trio Music (1982)
Touchstone (1982)
Again and Again (1983)
Summer Night: Live (1987) (with Akoustic Band)
Chick Corea Akoustic Band (1989) (with Akoustic Band)
Alive (1991) (with Akoustic Band)
Seabreeze (1993) (with Gayle Moran & Lionel Hampton)
Time Warp (1995)
Remembering Bud Powell (1996)
Rendezvous in New York (2003)
The Ultimate Adventure (2006)
Super Trio - Live at the One World Theatre, April 3rd, 2005 (2006) (with Steve Gadd & Christian McBride)
Five Peace Band Live (2009) (with John McLaughlin)
Further Explorations (2012)
The Continents: Concerto for Jazz Quintet & Chamber Orchestra (2012)
The Vigil (2013)
Trilogy (2013) (with Chick Corea Trio)
The Musician: Live at The Blue Note Jazz Café (2016)
Chinese Butterfly (2017) (with Steve Gadd)
Trilogy 2 (2019)(with Chick Corea Trio)
Antidote (2019)

Solo piano
albums

Piano Improvisations Vol. 1 (1971)
Piano Improvisations Vol. 2 (1972)
Delphi I (1979)
Delphi II & III (1980)
Children's Songs (1984)
Expressions (1994)
Solo Piano: Originals (2000)
Solo Piano: Standards (2000)
Solo Piano – Portraits (2014)
Plays (2020)

Duos

An Evening with Herbie Hancock & Chick Corea: In Concert (1978)
CoreaHancock (1979)
Chick Corea & Lionel Hampton in Concert (1980)
Voyage (1984) [with Steve Kujala]
Play (1992) (with Bobby McFerrin)
The Enchantment (2007) (with Béla Fleck)
Duet (2008) (with Hiromi Uehara)
Orvieto (2010) (with Stefano Bollani)
Two (2015) [with Béla Fleck]

with
Gary Burton

Crystal Silence (1972)
Duet (1979)
In Concert, Zürich, October 28, 1979 (1980)
Lyric Suite for Sextet (1982)
Native Sense - The New Duets (1997)
The New Crystal Silence (2008)
Hot House (2012)

Circle

Circle 1: Live in Germany Concert (1970)
Circle 2: Gathering (1971)
Paris Concert (1972)
Circling In (1975)
Circulus (1978)

with
Stanley Clarke

Children of Forever (1973)
Journey to Love (1975)
Rocks, Pebbles and Sand (1980)
Up (2014)

with
Miles Davis

Water Babies (1976)
Filles de Kilimanjaro (1969)
In a Silent Way (1969)
Live in Europe 1969: The Bootleg Series Vol. 2 (2013)
Bitches Brew (1970)
Bitches Brew Live (2011)
Black Beauty: Miles Davis at Fillmore West (1977)
Miles Davis at Fillmore: Live at the Fillmore East (1970)
Miles at the Fillmore – Miles Davis 1970: The Bootleg Series Vol. 3 (2014)
Jack Johnson (a.k.a. A Tribute to Jack Johnson) (1971)
Circle in the Round (1979)
Live-Evil (1971)
On the Corner (1972)
Big Fun (1974)

with
Chick Corea
Elektric Band

The Chick Corea Elektric Band (1986)
Light Years (1987)
Eye of the Beholder (1988)
Inside Out (1990)
Beneath the Mask (1991)
Elektric Band II: Paint the World (1993)
Live from Elario's (The First Gig) (1996)
To the Stars (2004)
Live in Tokyo 1987 (2017)

with
Joe Farrell

Joe Farrell Quartet (1970)
Outback (1971)
Skate Board Park (1979)

with
Stan Getz

Sweet Rain (1967)
What the World Needs Now: Stan Getz Plays Burt Bacharach and Hal David (1968)
Captain Marvel (1972)

with
Joe Henderson

Relaxin' at Camarillo (1979)
Mirror Mirror (1980)
Joe Henderson: Big Band (1997)

with
Hubert Laws

The Laws of Jazz (1964)
Flute By-Laws (1966)
Laws' Cause (1968)
Wild Flower (1972)
Family (1980)
Blanchard: New Earth Sonata (1985)

with
Herbie Mann

Herbie Mann Plays The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd (1965)
Monday Night at the Village Gate (1966)
Latin Mann Afro to Bossa to Blues (1965)
Standing Ovation at Newport (1965)

with
Blue Mitchell

The Thing to Do (1964)
Down with It! (1965)
Boss Horn (1967)

with
Origin

Live at the Blue Note (1998)
A Week at The Blue Note (1998)
Change (1999)
corea.concerto: Spain for Sextet & Orchestra / Piano Concerto No. 1 (1999)

with
Return to Forever

Return to Forever (1972)
Light as a Feather (1973)
Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy (1973)
Where Have I Known You Before (1974)
No Mystery (1975)
Romantic Warrior (1976)
Musicmagic (1977)
Live (1978)
Returns (2009)
Forever [as Corea, Clarke & White] (2011)
The Mothership Returns (2012)

with
Wayne Shorter

Super Nova (1969)
Moto Grosso Feio (1974)

with
others

Sonny Stitt: Stitt Goes Latin (1963)
Dave Pike: Manhattan Latin (1964)
Cal Tjader: Soul Burst (1966)
Pete La Roca: Turkish Women at the Bath (1967)
Donald Byrd: The Creeper (1981)
Eric Kloss: To Hear Is to See! (1969)
Eric Kloss: Consciousness! (1970)

- Larry Coryell: Spaces (1970)
Sadao Watanabe: Round Trip (1970)
Marion Brown: Afternoon of a Georgia Faun (1970)
Richard Davis: The Philosophy of the Spiritual (1971)
Rolf Kühn Jazzgroup: Going to the Rainbow (1971)
John Surman: Conflagration (1971)
Elvin Jones: Merry-Go-Round (1972)
Airto Moreira: Free (1972)
Anthony Braxton: The Complete Braxton (1973)
Richard Davis: With Understanding (1975)
Dee Dee Bridgewater: Just Family (1977)
Ron Carter: Parade (1979)
Gábor Szabó: Femme Fatale (1979)
Tete Montoliu: Lunch in L.A. (1980)
Chaka Khan et al.: Echoes of an Era (1982)
Elektric Band II: Paint the World (1993)
Like Minds (1998) (with Gary Burton, Pat Metheny, Roy Haynes, Dave Holland)
Herbie Hancock: Gershwin's World (1998)
Avishai Cohen: Lyla (2003)
Miroslav Vitouš: Universal Syncopations (2003)
Antonio Sánchez: Migration (2007)
Hans Glawischnig: Panorama (2008)

Compilations

Inner Space (1973)
The Complete "Is" Sessions (2002)
Chick Corea/Herbie Hancock/Keith Jarret/McCoy Tyner (1976)
Chick Corea Compact Jazz (1987)
Best of Chick Corea (1993)
Selected Recordings (2002)
Very Best of Chick Corea (2004)
Herbie Mann-Chick Corea: The Complete Latin Band Sessions (2007)
Electric Chick (2008)

Soundtracks

Happy Anniversary, Charlie Brown (1989)

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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless this is not known.
As leader or co-leader	New Vibe Man in Town (1961) Who Is Gary Burton? (1962) 3 in Jazz (split with Sonny Rollins and Clark Terry, 1963) Something's Coming! (1963) The Groovy Sound of Music (1964) Tennessee Firebird (1966) The Time Machine (1966) A Genuine Tong Funeral (1967) Lofty Fake Anagram (1967) Duster (1967) Gary Burton Quartet in Concert (1968) Good Vibes (1969–70) Paris Encounter (with Stéphane Grappelli, 1969) Throb (1969) Gary Burton & Keith Jarrett (1970) Live in Tokyo (1971) Alone at Last (1971) Crystal Silence (with Chick Corea, 1972) Seven Songs for Quartet and Chamber Orchestra (1973) The New Quartet (1973) Ring (with Eberhard Weber, 1974) Matchbook (with Ralph Towner, 1974) Hotel Hello (with Steve Swallow, 1974) Dreams So Real (1975) Passengers (1976) Times Square (1978) Duet (with Chick Corea, 1978) Easy as Pie (1980) In Concert, Zürich, October 28, 1979 (1979) Picture This (1982) Lyric Suite for Sextet (with Chick Corea, 1982) Real Life Hits (1984) Slide Show (1985) Whiz Kids (1986) Times Like These (1988) Reunion (with Pat Metheny, 1989) Right Time, Right Place (with Paul Bley, 1990) Cool Nights (1991) Six Pack (1991–92) Native Sense - The New Duets (1997) Like Minds (with Chick Corea, Pat Metheny, Dave Holland and Roy Haynes, 1998) Generations (2003) Next Generation (2004) The New Crystal Silence (with Chick Corea, 2007) Quartet Live (2007) Common Ground (2011) Hot House (2012) Time Thread (with Makoto Ozone, 2013) Guided Tour (2013)
With Stan Getz	Getz Au Go Go (1964) Nobody Else but Me (1964) Getz/Gilberto Vol. 2 (1966) The Stan Getz Quartet in Paris (1967) The Canadian Concert of Stan Getz (1983)
With others	After the Riot at Newport (Chet Atkins and the Nashville All-Stars, 1960) Bob Brookmeyer and Friends (1964) Tim Hardin 1 (Tim Hardin, 1964–65) Quincy Jones Explores the Music of Henry Mancini (1964) Ingénue (k.d. lang, 1991) Journey (Arif Mardin, 1973) Jazz Concert (George Shearing, 1963) Rare Form! (George Shearing, 1963) Touch Me Softly (George Shearing, 1963) Swallow (Steve Swallow, 1991) Fluid Rustle (Eberhard Weber, 1979) Hommage à Eberhard Weber (2015) Simple Complex (Jon Weber, 2003)