Jazz vibraphonist and educator Gary Burton, winner of "Down Beat" magazine's "Jazzman of the Year" award, a member of the Percussion Hall of Fame, and Executive Vice President of the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Burton is known worldwide as a musical innovator and master improviser. In a career that has spanned three decades, he's recorded with jazz legends like Stan Getz, George Shearing and Quincy Jones. Pop and Rock stars like k.d. Lang and Eric Clapton, and played with his own bands throughout the world.