Recent News
October 17, 2011
DCist Review - Gary Burton Quartet @ Blues Alley
There are few musicians out there who totally changed the way an instrument is perceived. What John Coltrane did for the saxophone or what Tony Williams did for the drumset, that is what Gary Burton did for the vibraphone.
October 02, 2011
The Good Feeling (Mack Avenue) Christian McBride Big Band [Ottawa Citizen]
McBride’s disc, released this week, serves up the sounds and vibe of the mainstream jazz tradition in heaping, tasty helpings.
September 23, 2011
Gerald Wilson: Little Big Man [Stereophile]
Teamed with the sympathetic ears of producer Al Pryor, Wilson has now made five big-band albums for Detroit-based Mack Avenue Records, one of a handful of independent labels that today carry on the proud jazz tradition of feisty indies unafraid to take chances.
September 07, 2011
The Guy With Four Sticks
During the 1960s, jazz aficionados came to know Gary Burton—a skinny, longhaired vibraphone sensation who wielded four mallets at a time, spinning out beautiful musical lines in intricate counterpoint at lightning speed.
August 22, 2011
Warren Wolf Receives “Baltimore Jazz Award For Musical Excellence”
Mack Avenue Records is proud to announce vibraphonist Warren Wolf as the recipient of a "Baltimore Jazz Award for Musical Excellence" at the 2011 Baltimore Jazz Awards. Wolf, a native of Baltimore, received the award on Thursday, August 18 at Enoch Pratt Library Central in Baltimore.
August 15, 2011
Mallet men I (CD review Ottowa Citizen)
What do the members of the New Gary Burton Quartet have in common? Virtuosity that manifests itself in incredible precision, and which is used in the service of lyrical expression, for starters.
