Here's a slightly condensed, video-enhanced transcript of my recent chat with vibraphonist Gary Burton, which informed this story that I wrote in advance of the Chick Corea/Gary Burton duo show at Centrepointe Theatre this Thursday. (The duo also plays London's Aeolian Hall on Friday and Montreal's Maison Symphonique on Saturday.) I've read a bit about the origins of the duo, I'd like to hear about it in a little bit more detail... It came about kind of by accident. We were both in a jazz festival in Germany in Munich in 1972, and the promoter of the festival had the idea to have some kind of jam session at the end of the concert and went around asking the various musicians that were on that night if they would participate. It turned out that the only two that said yes were me and Chick. We laughed about it and said OK, we'll do something together then, and at the sound check we rehearsed a tune real quick and came out and played our song at the end, and the audience loved it. It was something different. You know, just a duo and all that. As it happened, the head of ECM records [Manfred Eicher -- PH] was there. That's his home town. He had already recorded Chick, one or two records, and introduced himself to me with a lot of enthusiasm you guys should make a record like this, a duet record. We thought it was a little too esoteric.