HutchFan

Oh man. I am JEALOUS that you've had the opportunity to meet & hang with so many cool musicians!!! Re: the CD -- I'll keep my eyes open for Volume 2.

Bill Mays & Ray Drummond - One to One (DMP) Really enjoying this new-to-me disc.

John Hicks - Muisc in the Key of Clark: Remembering Sonny Clark (HighNote)

Between you & me, it's a Cannonball sort of day. Now, I'm on to this: Joey Calderazzo - Haiku (Marsalis Music)

Cannonball Adderley - Sophisticated Swing: The EmArcy Small Group Sessions Disc 1

Buster Williams - Somewhere Along the Way (TCB)

Agreed! Along with Barbirolli's, Ashkenazy's is my favorite Sibelius cycle.

Kenny Kirkland!!!

Franco Ambrosetti - Wings (Enja)

Jaws is one of the greats!

The Bill Evans Trio - Since We Met (Fantasy) with Eddie Gomez & Marty Morell

They're a solid third-party vendor on amazon. I've never had any issues -- and I've bought both jazz or classical from them.

George Benson - Beyond the Blue Horizon (CTI) I'm spinning the late-70s LP reissue (as shown above), not the original gatefold with the more familiar cover pic.

Jack Walrath - Neohippus (Blue Note) with Carter Jefferson, John Abercrombie, James Williams, Anthony Cox & Ronnie Burrage

George Cables - Why Not (Why Not) with Tony Dumas (b) and Carl Burnett (d) Five stars.

This again: Ella Fitzgerald - Newport Jazz Festival: Live at Carnegie Hall, July 5, 1973 (Columbia)

Yes.

Opus 5 - Pentasonic (Criss Cross) Sheila Jordan - Portrait of Sheila (Blue Note)

Yeah! Me too! And, while they're at it, they should bring in Anthony Davis on piano -- since he seemed to run & record with both of those guys.

Max Roach featuring Anthony Braxton - Birth & Rebirth (Black Saint)

I will say this about Burton: Crystal Silence was THE record that turned me on to ECM. And I think that all of the records that Burton made with Corea are -- at a minimum -- excellent. I really like this Burton LP too -- and I only heard it for the first time recently: Not at all the meditative thing that Burton had going with Corea. On this one, Roy Haynes throws down. OTOH: I've never been able to make headway into the records Burton made with Eberhard Weber -- Passengers and Ring. Same with Burton's record of Carla Bley compositions, Dreams So Real. . . . Other folks love 'em though. So make of it what you will!

DBQ - Jazz at the College of the Pacific (Fantasy) The MJQ - Fontessa (Atlantic) So great. ESPECIALLY the four tracks that made up the original 2-LP set.

I don't know. He made some excellent records with Anthony Davis and Chico Freeman back in the late-70s and early-80s. But I haven't really heard anything from him since then. Speaking of Anthony Davis... He's another guy that seemed to just disappear from the scene.

I wouldn't say that Burton was "the pioneer" of four-mallet technique. I would say that he was "a pioneer."

impossible, I wouldn't say that Burton is the ONLY influence on how people approach the vibraphone today. I'd say that Hutcherson and some of the others that you mentioned have been equally influential. But I do agree with you that Burton's influence has been tremendous, and in some aspect greater than some of these others due to the fact that Burton's taught at Berklee for so long. But the "only" influence?!?! I think that's a stretch. Think about it: Stefon Harris and Warren Wolf are probably the two most popular "younger" vibraphonists out there today, and they're both squarely in the Bags --> Hutcherson lineage.