Gary Burton / Chick Corea - Crystal Silence

Crystal Silence is an instrumental piece composed by Chick Corea in 1972. It featured on the 1972 ECM album with Gary Burton with the same name. Neville Potter wrote lyrics to this instrumental piece.

[dylanloew]

So gorgeous

Whoever mic'd Gary with 2 mics and panned them left/right is a genius

[swanstevenson]

Perhaps my favorite piece by Chick. Very difficult to listen to at this moment. Return to Forever, dear Chick. You are in our hearts forever.

[alanoneill]

I had the ECM album...loved it
RIP Chick

[jeanglenn]

A gorgeous song, befitting the title. Thank you, Chick, for leaving your music for us to enjoy❤️

[tuxguys]

(A beautifully-shot video, and the decision to fade before the applause was a wise one: Any reaction by mere humans to this holy thing would have trivialized it.)
Musique Noire at its most Meditative.
As brilliant a player as Chick Corea has always been (and you get to see that here), I’ve admired him equally as much as a composer, and this piece, along with “Spain, ” are the two of his many great and fascinating works that most people are likely to know.
This beautiful performance has him sharing a brain with the virtuosic Gary Burton (who is usually a little too cerebral for my taste, but never when he’s with Chick), and the two of them play with that magic desire to create something that’s bigger than the two of them…
…and they do.
Burton actually turns his vibes into a rhythm instrument during Chick’s solo; Chick reaches into his piano to mute the strings for a percussive effect during Burton’s.
John Lewis and Milt Jackson, the most noted keys/vibes duo in Jazz History, could, at their best, only come close to this.
Gabriel Faure, Maurice Ravel, and George Gershwin, all geniuses at harmony themselves, would drool over this if they could hear it.
Chick Corea is deceased…
Gary Burton is in retirement...
TREASURE THIS.

[Морячок-мы]

Просто прекрасно!Ещё долго не будет ТАКИХ МУЗЫКАНТОВ!!!

[birdlives]

What a wonderful video of such a gorgeous piece.
Thank you Chick for all the beautiful music that will live on forever.

[wellteazm]

Very sad. But your music will always be with us! Thank you, Chick. I have met you so many times and you were always very handsom, thank you. Rest in Music 🙏🏻

[nealklein]

Beam me up to where they are Scotty.... please.... there's not much intelligent life left down here... but for such out of this world music

[alanoneill]

My ECM album is in the great record collection in the sky...
AND...
I cannot find "What Game Shall We Play Today" from it on Youtube
Is there some issue there?