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Inner Circle Music 2016

The Truth Of What I Am [is greater than] The Narcissist

Top Debuts of 2016, NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll

Nextbop's Top Ten Jazz Albums of 2016

2016 Rookie of the Year, Nippertown News

“George Burton represents what many of jazz’s most exciting figures hoped the genre would become: precarious, dynamic, revolutionary...unable to be contained. ”

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George Burton Group @ Blues Alley inWashington D.C. 10.2.18

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Review, Koa Jazz festival performance, CitizenJazz (French publication) November 2018

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"....a concert focused exclusively on music - without fussing, spectacular posing or extravagance....Burton gives the impression - it is obviously much more than an impression - that he masters a thousand facets of jazz. One often has the feeling that he considers his harmonic lines as a chorus that weaves with those of the horns....

- Frank Bigotte, Piano Towards the Future: review from the Koa Jazz Festival, Montpellier, France

Front page news for the Jazz Jantar festival in Gdansk Poland-November 2018

Washington Post: George Burton takes audience on wild ride

"This critic has rarely, in 11 years and hundreds of concerts, seen a musician who fed off the energy of the room as voraciously as Burton. On Tuesday night at Blues Alley, he brought his band members in on the feast....The quintet made magic." -Read More February 2018

KOA Jazz Festival in Montpellier France-November 2018

Zeal NYC: Pianist George Burton Explores Complexity at Dizzy’s

"With piano finesse, rollick, impressionism, power and risk taking, George Burton made his rousing Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola debut on Wednesday, February 21....taking delicious melodies for long rides."-Read More

February 2018

Front Page For the Newport Jazz Festival August 2017

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2016 NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll

The Truth Of What I Am > The Narcissist recognized as a “Top Debut”

Nextbop's Favorite Jazz Albums of 2016

The Truth Of What I Am > The Narcissist recognized as a “Top Ten Jazz Albums 2016”

“Burton’s debut…..is an absolute joy to experience. Burton is at his most exciting when he is pushing the boundaries of the already limitless genre of jazz.”

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Album Review

"A fantastic statement of modern jazz."

Album Review

"[Burton's] vision, a smart melodic postbop with strong elements of R&B and hip-hop ... The Truth [Of What I Am] bursts with promise."

Live Concert Review

Review 2.20.18 at Blues Alley

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Album Review

"Burton speaks the language of Logan Richardson and Ambrose Akinmusire - modern harmonic choices and rhythms with a strong influence of hip hop and R&B, the melody always at the center of the conversation."

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Newport Jazz Festival Front Page Feature

“The Long Wait is Over”

Review/ Podcast- Newport Jazz Festival Preview

“The pianist finds truth in a world of phoniness.”

Album Review/Feature

"Wildly diverse but conceptually cohesive."

Album Review

"Strong writing and deep pulses make this a winner."

Album Review

“George Burton represents what many of jazz’s most exciting figures hoped the genre would become: precarious, dynamic, revolutionary...unable to be contained. ”

"Burton's album is an absolute joy to experience ... one of the most exciting debuts I have heard in years."

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