Chick Corea & Gary Burton: Hot House – review

"I used to think that someday we would run out of ideas," Gary Burton said recently, but he and Chick Corea have been playing duets for 30 years now, on and off, and they still work together like a pair of endlessly creative twins. Piano and vibraphone make a formidable combination – percussive, harmonic, melodic – and simply following the interweaving lines will keep all your faculties busy. But you'd have to be seriously unmusical not to be charmed by the elegance of it. Among these 10 pieces I particularly enjoy Kurt Weill's "My Ship" and Corea's own "Mozart Goes Dancing" – with added string quartet.