Sunday August 8, 2010

5:30pm Vinyasa Master Class

7:00pm Concert

$25.00 Master Class includes reception, gift bag and concert tix

$15.00 Concert 21 and over

Join the Three Jewels at Littlefield in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Littlefield is located at 622 Degraw St.

Gather a friend or two and stop by for a invigorating vinyasa master class starting at 5:30pm with Lisa Jacobson, Maria Cutrona, Jelena Zaric, Tracy Chiu, Eve Smith, and Eisa Davis.

At 7:30 the concert begins with an incredible music line up featuring The Citizens, Optimus Tribe, Carl Hancock Rux, Matt Kanelos and Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber.

Artwork for the event by Mari Plaza Munet

Tickets on sale now!

All event proceeds will go to Sue Rock Originals Everyone! and Safe Horizon.

Presented by The Three Jewels and The Refuge Project II

The Citizens

“The band members, Jason DiMatteo, Thom Loubet, Mark Lesseraux and John Bollinger have crafted a blend of pop and rock that not only draws on a variety of styles, but blends them into something wholly unique. The Citizens shouldn’t be missed!” Jennifer Patton – Adequacy.Net

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www.myspace.com/citizensmusic

Optimus Tribe

Optimus Tribe is Srikala and Aloka. Conscious Hip-Hop, with a taste of kirtan and dubstep.

http://soundcloud.com/optimustribe

http://www.reverbnation.com/srikala

Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber

A multiracial jam army that freestyles with cool telekinesis between the lustrous menace of Miles Davis On The Corner, the clash-an-om of 1970s King Crimson, and Jimi Hendrick moonwalk across side three of electric Landyland.”Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber

Carl Hancock Rux

“Carl Hancock Rux’s work crosses the disciplines of poetry, theater, music and literary fiction in order to achieve what one critic describes ” as a dizzying oral artistry….unleashing a torrent of paper bag poetry and post modern Hip-Bop music; the ritualistic blues of self awakening.” carlhancockrux.com

A Chicago native, Matt Kanelos studied classical and jazz piano at Chicago Musical College before moving to New York City. Matt’s lyrical stylings and minimalist musical aesthetic bring to mind influences like Neil Young, Bob Dylan , Leonard Cohen, and Cat Power. Performing regularly in New York, he has collaborated with Noe Venerable, Rose Polenzani, Jenifer Jackson, Roland Satterwhite, and Jason Liebman as well as members of Califone and Elysian Fileds. In 2008, Matt formed the band The Smooth Maria with Ben Gallina, Conor Meehan, and Kyle Sanna. Their first full length CD, ” Silent Show,” was released in May of 2009. MattKanelos.com

Related show

• Artist: Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber
• Event: The Refuge Project II: Advocacy against Domestic Violence through Music, Yoga and Art
• Date: Sunday, August 8th 2010
• Time: 7:00pm
• City: Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber in Brooklyn NYC, NY
• Venue: Littlefield Performance & Art Space
• Address: 622 Degraw Street
• Venue phone: 781–855-3388
• Country: United States
• Admission: $15 for concert $25 concert+ yog
• Age restrictions: No Minors
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• Notes: The Citizens, Optimus Tribe, Carl Hancock Rux, Matt Kanelos and Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber.
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The JB-edition of Burnt Sugar is a very accomplished crew with playing credits ranging from Cyro Baptistas, Wadada Leo Smith, Claudio Roditi, David Murray and Joseph Bowie, to TV On The Radio, Vernon Reid, the Holmes Brothers, William Parker, Fela on Broadway, The The and Phish.  Anchored by the pop and sizzle rhythm section of Jared Michael Nickerson (electric bass) and Chris Eddleton (drums), the ghetto mysticism vocals of Karma Mayet Johnson, Mikel Banks, Mazz Swift (violin), Lewis “Flip” Barnes Jr. (trumpet),   Bruce Mack (synthesizer),  the drop-step precision of Avram Fefer (tenor sax), “Moist” Paula Henderson (baritone sax), Dave Smith (trombone), Greg Tate (guitar) and André Lassalle (guitar).

You can trust this is going to be “A Funky Good Time!”

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• Artist: Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber
• Event: Burnt Sugar Freaks The James Brown Songbook
• Date: Friday, May 28th 2010
• Time: 11:55pm
• City: Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber in New York City, NY
• Venue: Blue Note NYC
• Address: 131 W. 3rd St
• Venue phone: 212–475-8592
• Country: United States
• Admission: $10.00
• Box office: 212–475-8592
• Notes: Doors at 11:30 –showtime ’round 12:30
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• Artist: Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber
• Event: Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (the Hood Opera) Streaming Live
• Date: Saturday, February 20th 2010
• Time: 8:30pm
• City: Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber in On The World Wide Web
• Venue: Arte Live Web TV
• Country: France
• Notes: This performance is scheduled to stream live on Arte Live Web TV! Watch it here!
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The reviews are starting to happen and we wanted to give you a taste of what the critics have to say. If you’re already a fan, we love you for it, if you are new to the sugar-express, hopefully these critical tidbits will whet your appetite, lead you to your favorite music retailer for a taste of the Arkestra Chamber.

On the live tip, it’s been a minute there too, so let’s get this party started at our next hit at the World Famous Blue Note in Manhattan ( 131 West 4th Street off of Sixth Avenue — for reservations call 212–475-8592 ) on March 27th for their Late Night Groove series. Cost is agreeable, and doors open at 11:30pm with showtime at 12:30am and believe me.… after a minute of silence Greg and the band will have plenty to say.

BlogCritics Online Magazine
Written by Richard Marcus
Published March 15, 2009

“Jazz and improvisation have gone together like bread and butter since the first player stepped out to blow a lead. There is something about the music that just lends itself to allowing musicians the freedom to explore all a piece of music has to offer. However, it’s jazz’s free-form nature which seems to have worked against its integration with orchestral works. Although modern composers have drawn upon many other elements of contemporary music and technologies, orchestral and jazz haven’t seemed to be able to find the comfort zone where they can blend easily…”
read the entire piece here

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DOWNBEAT Magazine
April, 200
by Bill Shoemaker

Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber
Making Love To The Dark Ages
LIVEWIRED MUSIC 1002
***1/2 stars
Triangulating Afro-futurism and Butch Morris’ conduction cue lexicon is a heady proposition on paper, but Burnt Sugar’s ringleader Greg Tate’s approach yields fluid, funk-fortified music. While there are moments that flash with antecedents–
usually located somewhere in the mid– ‘70s, but reaching occasionally as far back as the ‘40s-Burnt Sugar has it’s own sound. there’s a cadre of horn players who cover the post-Ornette Coleman waterfront with ease ( including Matana Roberts and Avram Fefer ), rhythm sections who can lock into a groove but also suddenly pivot, and a sufficient array of textures ( some emanating from Tate’s laptop ) and searing walk-ons by Vijay Iyer and Vernon Reid that morph the ensemble sound from track to track.
Burnt Sugar is at it’s elastic best during extended work-outs like the second section of “Chains and Water,” “Thorazine/81″ and the title piece. However some of the album’s high points occur in the more tightly scripted pieces like the first part of “Chains and Water,” a throbbing, harmonica-laced holler featuring Lisala, a compelling singer. But there are also a few miscues in the more structured passages. In the boppish tag that concludes “Chains And Water,” Lewis Barnes’ trumpet is fractured by a psychedelic mix. A synthesized ostinato threatens to stifle the album-ending title piece, but violinist Mazz Swift prevails with a synthesis of Leroy Jenkins and Papa John Creach, making a lasting impression.”
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March 2009 issue of JazzTimes
Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber
Making Love to the Dark Ages
LiveWired
By Steve Greenlee
“Tate works with a huge array of musicians on Making Love to the Dark Ages, and he knows how to use them. Trumpeter Lewis “Flip” Barnes Jr. turns in a solo on “Chains and Water” that grows more and more discordant before the tune takes on a hip-hop bent that becomes an all-out jam in the long middle section—which, in turn, leads into a brief final section of Ellington-inspired swing. (Whew.)
More wildness ensues: The heavy romp of “Thorazine/81” teeters at the edge of chaos for much of its nine-and-a-half minutes, and an unusual cross of hip-hop and free-jazz-style soloing (from bass clarinet, no less) threatens to create a new species of music on “Love to Tical.” Then Tate goes further afield, using his laptop to create a rhythm of blips and beeps on the ballad “Dominata” and a backdrop of noises on the 18-minute title track. And what a tune: Mysterious, tense, and dramatic, it builds toward several highlights, including a fantastic solo from baritone saxophonist “Moist” Paula Henderson.”

Read the article here

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March 2009 issue of JazzTimes
Greg Tate’s Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber: Paint the Sky Red
By Bill Milkowski
“On Making Love to the Dark Ages (LiveWired), the latest recording by Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber, Tate wields a baton along with a laptop and occasionally his trusty guitar. The results range from his expansive meditation on slavery, “Chains and Water,” full of free-blowing conversations between the horns and soulful vocals supplied by dynamic singer Lisala, to the electric Miles-ish groover “Love to Tical,” to the dreamlike, ambient, Eno-meets-Teo soundscape “Dominata,” which incorporates his audacious laptop experiments, to an intriguing mashup of Tate’s funky “Thorazine” with the Ron Carter-Miles Davis composition “Eighty-One” (from E.S.P.).
Tate’s ensemble comprises such high-caliber players as keyboardist Vijay Iyer, bassist Jared Nickerson, trumpeter Lewis “Flip” Barnes, alto saxophonists Matana Roberts and Avram Fefer, baritone saxophonist Paula Henderson, guitarists Ben Tyree and Rene Akan and vocalists Lisala, Karma Johnson, Abby Dobson and Justice Dilla X. Special guest guitarist Vernon Reid explodes with ferocious metal-esque abandon on “Love to Tical.” Says Tate of the Living Colour founder, “Vernon’s like a damn Ferrari, man! He can start where most guitar players climax, and then he keeps on taking it out from there. In the midst of an improv piece you just call on Vernon and … bam! He’s setting land speed records.”
read the article here

Choreographers Gabri Christa and Niles Ford continue to nurture a relationship with Burnt Sugar that goes back to 1992 when we did Central Park Summerstage together. This time we’ll get together to turn out PS 122 for four nights from the 1st to the 4th.

There’s possible compensation from the victim’s unit of the Birmingham police dept., but those funds aren’t currently available.
So — his friends are kicking into motion to help raise some financial and spiritual support for Sharrif and his family.
If you’re in our near Brooklyn, NYC — you can help by heading out to a hot show on Wed, July 25 at Sputnik. — hosted by Liza Jesse Peterson & featuring The Majestic Twinsound (dj sets), Burnt Sugar, the Sharrif Simmons band and other special guests.
There’s a suggested donation of $10 and smaller donation are gladly accepted!
All donations will go to help Sharrif and his family.
Wednesday, July 25
at Sputnik
262 Taffee Place,
Brooklyn, NY
Suggested donation $10.00If you can’t come to the show, Sharrif’s friends have set up a special myspace page — stop by and make a donation and/or just send your wishes to Sharrif.
myspace.com/sharrifsimmonsfund

That’s it for now,
Sending our love, prayers, and good vibrations to Sharrif, Sekou and Maureen.
Love and Peace, Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber

“Never Been Kissed is our version of a greatest hits album, even if you’ve never heard a lick from our seemingly bottomless well of output. This is only Vol One — A gentle nudge into our Rhythm & Noise Abyss…” (Greg Tate)

“Eclectic and experimental, yet taut and surefooted, it’s a delicate and wonderfully realized balancing act embracing jazz, hiphop, soul, rock and blues that never loses grip of it’s groove“
Dave Stelfox — The Wire– April 2007.
(If you can find a copy pick up this issue for reviews of “Never Been Kissed” and “Chopped and Screwed”)

Find the CD at these fine retailers… (offered for a limited time as a gift with Burnt Sugar purchases –as well as sold individually.)
www.downtownmusicgallery.com
www.dustygroove.com
www.jazsound.com
www.othermusic.com
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Friday, May 4, 2007
10:00pm
Zebulon Cafe Concert

http://zebuloncafeconcert.com/

258 Wythe Avenue in Williamsburg
(between Metropolitan and North 3rd St.)
Brooklyn, New York 11211
No Cover (donations accepted)
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Tuesday, May 10, 2007
11:30pm
Late Night
at Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater

http://web.joespub.com

425 Lafayette Street
( between East 4th and Astor Place)
Manhattan — NYC, New York 10003
Cost : $15.00
or
Bring your ticket stub from a preview performance of
The Public Theater’s Passing Strange
and purchase tickets for the discounted price of
$10.00!!

We’re thrilled to be a part of this event — here’s an explanation from Bill Bragin..
” As we were planning the run of Passing Strange,  we wanted to have at least one show that will REALLY feel like a concert as much as a stage piece, so for one night only — Thursday, May 10 —  we’ll be offering a performance at a more rock showtime — 9:30 pm, at Joe’s Pub prices -  just $20…AND —  as if that weren’t enough — plying you with food and booze beforehand at a reception down the block at Chinatown Brasserie (the old Fez/Time Cafe location).  We can thank the Late Nite Committee of the Public Theater for helping to make this a reality, since they are also selling premium priced benefit tix for the same performance.

These tix will probably go pretty fast, so act right away, and feel free to send this offer to some friends, especially those night owls, and price-sensitive folks among ya.  And remember $25 preview tix, $35 discounts for-later-in-the-run-offers still stand, and $20 rush tickets are available at the door for every show, while supplies last.

And if that wasn’t enough, Burnt Sugar, the epic Black Rock Arkestra conducted by Greg Tate will play at Joe’s Pub at 11:30, and we’re offering $10 tix to anyone with a stub from any performance of Passing Strange. Info on that below too.

The first performance is next Tuesday, May 1 at 7 pm.  I’m really excited, and hope to see many of you there.“
And a bit about “Passing Strange”..
From Los Angeles to Amsterdam to Berlin and back, PASSING STRANGE takes musical theater on a whole new trip. From singer-songwriter and performance artist Stew comes PASSING STRANGE, a daring new musical that takes you on a journey across boundaries of place, identity and theatrical convention. Stew, a popular performer at Joe’s Pub, was commissioned by The Public to develop this moving and hilarious story of a young black bohemian in search of self and home.
www.publictheater.org/