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Burnt Sugar Salutes and re-imagines James Brown at The Apollo

By Burnt Sugar | Published: February 21, 2010
Dur­ing a Salon Series res­i­dency on the Apollo Theater’s Sound Stage, Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Cham­ber will re-orchestrate sev­eral medley’s taken from James Brown’s 3 ‘Live At The Apollo’ albums for the 14-member Arkestra’s array of gui­tars, strings, horns, key­boards, per­cus­sion and voices. We will re-imagine these pieces in the styles of Brown’s con­tem­po­raries Miles [...]
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Sweetback Caught in the Act on Brooklyn Independent Television

By Burnt Sugar | Published: February 16, 2010
Many thanks and a HUGE shout out to Brook­lyn Inde­pen­dent Tele­vi­sion, a com­mu­nity media pro­gram of BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn ! Check them out here
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Ben Sisario profiles Melvin Van Peebles at The NY Times

By Burnt Sugar | Published: January 22, 2010
“ASK Melvin Van Pee­bles about his legacy, and you get a snort, a gri­mace, a wave of the hand, a game-show error buzz and a finely punc­tu­ated “come on.” “I didn’t even know I had a legacy,” he said between rehearsals for his lat­est project, a musical-theater adap­ta­tion of his 1971 film “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss [...]
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THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION CONTINUES!

By Burnt Sugar | Published: November 4, 2009
Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Cham­ber brings our genre-bending live show to York College’s Per­form­ing Art Cen­ter in Queens on Fri­day, Novem­ber 13th & The World Famous Blue Note in Man­hat­tan on Mon­day, Novem­ber 16th. Wit­ness the next step in the evo­lu­tion of The Arkestra Cham­ber as “Pass the Baton” makes its NYC area debut at York College’s [...]
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Brooklyn and beyond!

By Burnt Sugar | Published: October 17, 2009
What’s up y’all, it’s fall and as the squir­rels know, have to have those chest­nuts pop­pin. Burnt Sugar has been blessed with upcom­ing hits at the Dywer Cul­tural Cen­ter in Harlem; York Col­lege in Queens; the Blue Note in Man­hat­tan, whew! The new year blazes in with a Jan­u­ary Joe’s Pub hit with a Sweet­back guest; fol­lowed [...]
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It got hot ‘up norf’

By Bruce Mack | Published: September 28, 2009
The swift blaze of a hot fire is a rare thing “up norf” on the shores of Lake Ontario. But it did get a lit­tle warm dur­ing Burnt Sugar’s visit to Har­bour Front in Toronto… and not just from the com­bustible con­coc­tion the Suga’ peo­ple cooked up… but from bright-sunny days, upper 70’s weather-uncharacteristically still [...]
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October — November 2008

By Burnt Sugar | Published: October 30, 2008
Burnt Sugar has accepted Charles Blass’s offer to keep it ghastly with a live sug­ary broad­cast in the stu­dios of WKCR. The music starts at 2am and will go till we drop or becom­ing sanc­ti­fied or are kicked off the premises at 6am!! [...]
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September 2008

By Burnt Sugar | Published: September 9, 2008
It's back to visit our new friends in Hamilton ( the Pepper Jack Cafe ), Guelph ( The Guelph Jazz Festival ) and Toronto ( the Lula Lounge ) Ontario on September 5th, 6th and 7th, with a first-time stop in Buffalo N.Y. on September 4th, thanks to Steve Baczkowski & Hallwalls and Craig Reynolds & the Big Orbit Gallery.
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August 2008

By Burnt Sugar | Published: August 9, 2008
As part of Harlem Day, the BRC Orchestra pays tribute to Jimi Hendrix and the Band of Gypsys
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March 2008

By Burnt Sugar | Published: March 9, 2008
They say vari­ety is the spice and we say that applies to Burnt Sugar. This month we have a visit to the world famous Blue Note in Man­hat­tan on the 8th; then our first Cana­dian [...]
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December 2007

By Burnt Sugar | Published: December 9, 2007
Being a fes­tive band, we are hit­ting early and on both sides of Christ­mas this month to close out 2007 and get ready for 2008. Start­ing with a Dar­ryl McNeil-curated BRC fundraiser at the fab [...]
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September & October 2007

By Burnt Sugar | Published: October 9, 2007
Glut­tons for Music, we are doing the dou­ble dip on the 20th with an early CMJ per­for­mance at Manhattan’s Crash Man­sion and then a late night set at our home-away-from-home, Zebu­lon in Brook­lyn. If there’s ever been an oppor­tu­nity [...]
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August 2007

By Burnt Sugar | Published: August 9, 2007
Hey…haven’t heard from us in a minute, but we’re same as we ever where, and to start things off due to the ban­gin response “Chopped and Screwed — Vol­ume 2″ has received from Burnt Sugar cd pur­chasers as a give-away item, B.S.I.llc has [...]
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May 2007

By Burnt Sugar | Published: May 9, 2007
We’re jump­ing into May with two NYC shows and as we enjoy our sev­enth year as a fam­ily — a great­est hits release. — “Never Been Kissed: The Groidest Shiznits 1999–2006″ “Never Been Kissed is our ver­sion of a great­est hits album, even if you’ve never heard a [...]
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TruGROID Records proudly presents : “Black Sex Yall Liberation & Bloody Random Violets”

By Burnt Sugar | Published: September 9, 2003
Tru­GROID Records proudly presents Burnt Sugar’s brand new dou­ble CD “Black Sex Yall Lib­er­a­tion & Bloody Ran­dom Vio­lets”– their most diverse and opu­lent record­ing to date. Rep­re­sent­ing their sixth stu­dio record­ing in four years, the col­lec­tion fea­tures key con­tri­bu­tions from Ver­non Reid, [...]
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Tricky Dilemma

By Burnt Sugar | Published: August 9, 2003
TRICKY DILEMMA, led by multi-instrumentalist Bruce Mack (of Burnt Sugar) is a trio of abstract-expressionists that also fea­tures gui­tarists Muata25/Thomas Blast Mur­ray (Eurhyth­mics, Ter­rence Trent D’Arby) and Mar­vin Sewell (for­merly of Cas­san­dra Wilson). The Howl­ing Neces­sity, con­cep­tu­al­ized by Bruce Mack, is an explo­ration in [...]
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In which Greg Tate interviews Greg Tate about Burnt Sugar’s New Album ‘The Rites’ and Related Matters

By Burnt Sugar | Published: May 9, 2003
Burnt Sugar vs. Stravin­sky? How did we get here? Why y’all tripping? GT It was really more a case of Burnt Sugar vs. Butch Mor­ris. Uncle Igor was just an inno­cent bystander who got caught in our [...]
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December 2008

By Burnt Sugar | Published: December 1, 2000
Burnt Sugar has a santa-bag full of gigs this month start­ing with a per­for­mance for the Art for Arts Inc. ben­e­fit on Mon­day, Decem­ber 15th. We”ll be joined by the noted acoustic bassist and vio­lin­ist Henry Grimes . Then before you can say jin­gle, we feel for­tu­nate to [...]
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