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Chick Corea

The Visitors w/ Gary Burton and Kirill Gerstein

ECM
Release Date: June 25, 2025

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Chick Corea wrote The Visitors specifically for Gary Burton and Kirill Gerstein – two masters of their instruments and in their respective fields. The 12-minute piece blends classical and jazz languages seamlessly: some sections are fully written-out, others partially improvised, and others again entirely open to the interpreters’ in-the-moment inspiration. Vibraphone and piano conspire in graceful interplay throughout, navigating rowdy ostinatos and subtle counterpoint in the process. Commissioned by Kirill Gerstein with support from his Gilmore Artist Award, and co-commissioned by Berklee College of Music, The Visitors was premiered by Burton and Gerstein at the 2012 Gilmore International Piano Festival. Gerstein and Burton only recently rediscovered this recording of that premiere, subsequent to which Manfred Eicher and Gerstein mixed the piece in Munich, in Spring 2025. Released as a digital single only, The Visitors appears on the occasion of what would have been Chick Corea’s 84th birthday, on June 12. Kirill Gerstein: “With Chick no longer with us, and Gary now retired, this is a singular document—both musically and personally meaningful”

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