Table of Contents
Acknowledgment v
Intro vii
Part I Early Years 1
Chapter 1 What's a Vibraphone? 1
Chapter 2 "After You've Gone" 13
Chapter 3 The Local Scene 25
Chapter 4 College Bound 41
Chapter 5 New Adventure 53
Part II Apprenticeship 65
Chapter 6 "Autumn in New York" 65
Chapter 7 On the Job Training, Part One 75
Chapter 8 The West Coast Scene 91
Chapter 9 On the Job Training, Part Two 103
Chapter 10 The Real Stan Getz Quartet 127
Chapter 11 Trying Some New Things 139
Chapter 12 Going Out with a Bang 155
Part III On My Own 165
Chapter 13 The Gary Burton Quartet 165
Chapter 14 Life in the Big Time 181
Chapter 15 Flower Power 191
Chapter 16 Finally Part of the New York Scene 205
Chapter 17 "There'll Be Some Changes Made" 215
Part IV Putting More on the Plate 231
Chapter 18 Working Two Jobs 231
Chapter 19 Going Solo 239
Chapter 20 New Duet, New Label, New Band 245
Chapter 21 Discovering New Talent 253
Part V Middle Years 265
Chapter 22 Wedding Bells Again 265
Chapter 23 A Trip to Moscow, and the Family Grows 283
Chapter 24 Back to Berklee 299
Part VI Moving On 307
Chapter 25 Who Is Gary Burton? 307
Chapter 26 Tango Lessons 317
Chapter 27 Moving Forward 327
Chapter 28 Understanding the Creative Process 333
Chapter 29 The End Game 341
Chapter 30 Life Begins at Sixty 349
Discography 357
About the Author 365
Index 367
