Burnt Sugar freaks Steely Dan with conductor Vernon Reid photo by Nisha Sondhe

We’ve had such a great time freaking the Steely Dan Songbook that we’ve decided we must do it again!

On Thursday, May 24th
at
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158 Bleecker Street
New York, NY 10012
Phone: (212) 505-FISH (3474)
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The Burnt Sugar Repertory Arkestra
Presents
Any World (That I’m Welcome to) Sex Race Hoodoo & The Steely Dan Conductions A Hipster Carnivalesque in Post Soul Vernacular
Featured Guest Siren: Vinia Mojica
Creative Direction/MD Vernon Reid
Creative MisDirection Greg Tate
Executive Producer Jared Michael Nickerson

“Attended my first great show of 2012: Vernon Reid conducting the Burnt Sugar Arkestra through a suite of Steely Dan classics imagined with more soul than Fagan & Becker’s records. The songs are so inventive they keep their flavor even when stretched.  Becker & Fagan need to hear this re-arrangement of “Black Cow” by V. Reid and the Burnt Sugar Arkestra. They found the funky soul in its DNA and mined it like a gold mine.” — Nelson George

Special Guests:  Melvin Van Peebles wid Laxative

Doors: 6:30pm
Melvin Van Peebles wid Laxative: 7:30pm
Burnt Sugar Arkestra — 8:30pm

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June 11 – June 17, 2012
Joe McPhee – Celebrating A Lifetime of Achievement

WHAT’S NEW (schedule are subject to change):
June 13 – Joe McPhee – Celebrating A Lifetime of Achievement
June 11 – 17 – The Multi-Arts Vision Festival takes place in Downtown Brooklyn
June 12 – Special AUM Fidelity 15th Anniversary Celebration
ALL Week – All-Stars Workman/Cyrille/Lake, Wadada/Grimes, Simmons, Dunmall, Sheila Jordan,
Plus PANELs: ART: DANCE: After Hour Performances
June 15 – FREE @ Campos Plaza – Parker All-Stars + Poets for Peace +Music Is Mine Youth Band
June 16 – 70 young musicians perform Saturday Afternoon

WHEN: Monday, June 11 thru Sunday, June 17, 2012
WHERE: ROULETTE, (509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY)

TICKETS: Daily Admission: $30 per day / $20 students & seniors
Festival Passes are $170
INFO: Email info@visionfestival.org / Call (212) 254‑5420
URL: www.artsforart.org

Legendary for his beautiful tone, his melodic center, and the freedom with which he approaches music, Mr. Joe McPhee will receive this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award. It is with great joy that Arts for Art pays homage to this innovative composer, a master of both the saxophone and the trumpet, who has devoted his life to the highest standard of musical excellence. His compositions are carefully structured to facilitate collective improvisation and interaction with musicians from a wide range of aesthetics. He consistently chooses equality over hierarchy. He has spread across the world the message of a pure tone, an organic intensity of melody and rhythm, and an innate understanding of the balance of sound and space.

Highlights include: Celebrating the Great Joe McPhee, The Thing, A Special McPhee Big Band; Sonny Simmons, additional Highlights: Kneebody; Mark Dresser, Rudresh Mahanthappa; Hamid Drake; Dave Burrell, William Hooker; Rob Brown; Marshall Allen, Henry Grimes; Sheila Jordan; Pheeroan akLaff; Reggie Workman, Andrew Cyrille, Oliver Lake; Roy Campbell; Paul Dunmall, Matthew Shipp; Joelle Leandre, Nicole Mitchell; Kidd Jordan, Charles Gayle; AUM Fidelity 15th Anniversary with William Parker, David Ware, Darius Jones and and and .

Monday June 11th – Sunday June 17th, 2012
@ ROULETTE, 509 Atlantic Ave, BROOKLYN, NY

Monday June 11 OPENING NIGHT

6:00 PM Opening Invocation
Patricia Nicholson, Fay Victor, Kyoko Kitamurra, William Parker,
Hamid Drake, Gerald Cleaver, Michael Wimberly
7:00 PM Kneebody / Monome
Adam Benjamin / Ben Wendel / Kaveh Rastegar
Nate Wood / Shane Endsley
Arts for Art’s presentation of Kneebody is supported by Presenting Jazz, a program of Chamber Music America funded through the generosity of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
8:00 PM Dunmall / Shipp / Morris / Cleaver
Paul Dunmall – reed / Matthew Shipp – piano /
Joe Morris – bass / Gerald Cleaver – drums
9:00 PM Sharp / Morris
Tracie Morris – poet / Elliott Sharp – guitar
10:00 PM Mark Dresser Quintet
Rudresh Mahanthappa – alto sax / MarkDresser – bass
Michael Dessen – trombone / Denman Maroney – piano /
Michael Sarin – drums

June 12th AUM Fidelity 15th Anniversary Celebration

7:00 PM David Spencer Ware / Planetary Unknown
David Spencer Ware – saxophones / Cooper-Moore – piano /
William Parker – bass / Muhammad Ali – drums
8:30 PM Darius Jones Quartet
Darius Jones – alto saxophone / Matt Mitchell – piano /
Trevor Dunn – bass / Ches Smith – drums
10:00 PM William Parker / In Order To Survive
William Parker – bass / Cooper-Moore – piano / Rob Brown – alto sax /
Lewis Barnes – trumpet / Hamid Drake – drums

Wednesday June 13 Joe McPhee A LifeTime of Achievement
7:00 PM Joe McPhee / ANGELS, DEVILS AND HAINTS II
(Playing in THE GARDENS OF HARLEM – a tribute to Clifford Thornton)
4 basses – Dominic Duval, Michael Bisio, Hilliard Greene, William Parker
4 horns – Steve Swell, Roy Campbell, Joe Giardullo, Joe McPhee
1 violin – Rosie Hertlein; 2 percussionist – Warren Smith, Jay Rosen

8:30 PM Sonny Simmons Ensemble
Sonny Simmons – alto sax, english horn / William Parker – bass
Thomas Bellier – electric guitar / Warren Smith – drums
10:00 PM The Thing /featuring Joe McPhee
Joe McPhee – sax & trumpet / Mats Gustaffson – tenor baritone
Ingebrigt Haker – flaten bass / Paal Nilssen-Love – drums

Thursday June 14
5:00 PM PANEL DISCUSSION –
7:00 PM ETERNAL UNITY
Dave Burrell – piano / Sabir Mateen – reeds
William Parker – bass / William Hooker – drums
8:30 PM Dangerous Women / Moving Sound
Patricia Nicholson – dance/words / Connie Crothers – piano
9:30 PM Ivo Perelman Trio
Whit Dickey – drums / Ivo Perelman – sax / Michael Bisio – bass
10:30 PM Hamid Drake Ensemble
Jeff Parker – guitar / Jeb Bishop – trombone / Pasquale Mira vibes
Josh Abrams – bass / Hamid Drake – drums

Friday June 15th 2012 FREE at CAMPOS PLAZA
3 PM POETS OUT LOAD / co-presented by TRIBES
Peace Poets /
Tribes presents Edwin Torres,
4 PM Children of Music Is Mine – percussion, voice, recorder
Accompanied by Jean Carla Rodea, William Parker, Daniel Carter

5 PM The Mystery Collective
William Parker, ?, Daniel Carter, Jean Carla Rodea, drums

Friday June 15

7:00 PM Sheila Jordan & Jay Clayton / Bebop to Freebop
Jack Wilkins – guitar / Cameron Brown – bass
8:30 PM Roy Campbell / Eran Elisha
9:30 PM Henry Grimes / Wadada Leo Smith
Henry Grimes – bass, violin / Wadada Leo Smith – trumpet
10:30 PM Pheeroan akLaff / Freedom Ensemble
featuring Amiri Baraka – poet
Jun Miyake – woodwinds / Santi Debriano – bass / Pheeroan akLaff – drums
Saturday June 16
5:00 PM PANEL DISCUSSION
7:00 PM Steve Swell QUINTET
Steve Swell – trombone / Rob Brown – alto / Chris Forbes – piano
Hill Greene – bass / Michael T.A. Thompson – drums
8:30 PM PREMIERE
Joelle Leandre – bass / Nikki Mitchell – flute / Thomas Buckner – voice
9:30 PM TRIO 3
Reggie Workman – bass / Andrew Cyrille – drums / Oliver Lake – sax
10:30 PM Jason Kao Hwang / BURNING BRIDGE
Jason Hwang – violin / Taylor Ho Bynum – cornet/flugelhorn
Ken Filiano – string bass / Andrew Drury – drum set
Wang Guowei – erhu / Sun Li – pipa / Steve Swell – trombone
Burning Bridge by Jason Kao Hwang has been made possible with support from Chamber Music America’s 2009 New Jazz Works: Commissioning and Ensemble Development program funded through the generosity of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Sunday June 17
video ARTIST Phyllis Bulkin Lehrer
4:00 PM PANEL DISCUSSION

6:00 PM Ingrid Laubrock / ANTI-HOUSE
Ingrid Laubrock – saxophone / Mary Halvorson – guitar / Kris Davis – piano / John Hebert – bass / Tom Rainey – drums

7:00 PM BURNT SUGAR the ARKESTRA CHAMBER / Holy Ghost And Fire
Greg “Ionman” Tate – conduction/guitar/laptop / Vernon Reid – guitar /conduction Lisala – vocals / Shelley Nicole – vocals/percussion /
Mikel Banks – vocals/conduction/freak-a-phone /
Lewis “Flip” Barnes Jr. – trumpet / Micah Gaugh – alto sax /
V. Jeffery Smith – tenor sax / Avram Fefer – tenor sax /
“Moist” Paula Henderson – bari sax / Andre Lassalle – guitar /
BenTyree – guitar / Bruce Mack – vocals/keyboards /
Jared Michael Nickerson – electric bass / LaFrae Sci – drums

8:30 PM Rob Brown / Daniel Levin
9:30 PM KIDD Jordan Quintet
Kidd Jordan alto, Charles Gayle tenor, piano, J.D. Parron, sax
William Parker bass, Hamid Drake drums

Special Guest Interlocutor: Carl Hancock Rux
Featured Guest Siren: Vinia Mojica
Creative Direction/MD: Vernon Reid
Creative MisDirection: Greg Tate
Executive Producer: Jared Michael Nickerson

VOCALS Mikel Banks, Lisala, Micah Gaugh, Karma Mayet Johnson, Shelley Nicole, Vinia Mojica, Carl Hancock-Rux, Mazz Swift  HORNS V. Jeffrey Smith (Arranger) Lewis ‘Flip’ Barnes, Micah Gaugh, ‘Moist’ Paula Henderson. GUITARS Andre Lassalle, Ben Tyree, Vernon Reid  ELECTRIC VIOLIN Mazz Swift KEYS Leon Gruenbaum  BASS Jared Michael Nickerson  DRUMS LaFrae Sci

Pretzel Logic — Monkey In Your Soul — Any World That I’m Welcome To — Haitian Divorce — The Fez — Deacon Blues — Any Major Dude — Black Cow - Show Biz Kidz  - Third World Man — Kid Charlemagne — Do It Again

Special thanks to Jordana Phokompe & Bill Bragin at the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center’s Target Free Thursdays for debuting this performance.

Burnt Sugar Plays Steely Dan
Thursday, March 1, 2012 at 8:30
Target Free Thursdays
David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center

Any World That I’m Welcome To: A Hipster Carnivalesque In Post Soul Vernacular. Sex Race HooDoo And The Steely Dan Conductions.

Creative Direction By Vernon Reid.
Special Guests Carl Hancock Rux and Vinia Mojica.

http://new.lincolncenter.org/live/index.php/atrium-burnt-sugar-march-1–2012

Burnt Sugar Residency at Brown University

The Department of Africana Studies presents Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber for a two-day artist residency that will include a public conversation with the ensemble, a performance and talk at Grant Recital Hall, a two-hour workshop with Brown students and a public performance at live venue Fete in the Olneyville area of Providence. Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber is under the direction of Visiting Professor of Africana Studies Greg Tate, an acclaimed writer and critic for the Village Voice. Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber was originally conceived in 1999 as a forum for the New York area improvisational musicians to compose, record and perform material which reflects the breadth and depth of American and diasporic music in the 21st century.

Schedule of events for Brown University Students

Thursday, March 15, 2011

4:00pm-6:00pm           Conversations in Africana Music with Burnt Sugar (moderated public conversation for the Brown University community)
in George Houston Bass Performing Arts Space in Churchill House

6:00pm-7:30pm           Dinner at the Brown University Faculty Club

8:00pm-9:30pm           Art and Craft of Conduction in the Grant Recital Hall (performance and talk about Butch Morris’s conduction system)

 Friday, March 16, 2011

1:00pm-3:00pm         Workshop in Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Arts

8:00pm                        Reception at Fête for Olneyville residents, Brown community members, and Providence official

9:00pm                        Free Open to the Public Burnt Sugar performance at Fête

http://brown.edu/Departments/Africana_Studies/events/index.html

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• Artist: Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber
• Event: Brown University Residency
• Date: Thursday, March 15th 2012 – Friday, March 16th 2012
• City: Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber in Providence, Rhode Island
• Venue: The Depart­ment of Africana Stud­ies at Brown University
• Country: United States
• Notes: See Related post for details
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• Artist: Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber
• Event: Brown University Residency
• Date: Friday, March 16th 2012
• Time: 8:00pm
• City: Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber in Providence, RI
• Venue: Fête
• Address: 103 Dike St.
• Venue phone: 401.383.1112
• Country: United States
• Admission: NO COVER
• Notes: Presented by Fête and Brown University Department of Africana Studies
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So the new Burnt Sugar record is called ALL YA NEEDS THAT NEGROCITY. Any explanations of ‘Negrocity’ forthcoming?

Naw, not really. Be kinda redundant. Self-explanatory in a world where Three Six Mafia is winning Oscars and Rick Ross is a sex god. Negrocity has become a global necessity. It may have even joined the four essential food groups. Thing is, Burnt Sugar’s Negrocity is more like Ralph Ellison’s lead character. Hidden in plain sight but most likely to kickstart a musical race riot at a moment’s notice.

You’re frequently asked to label or describe Burnt Sugar’s music. After ten years of such maddening inquiries what have you boiled your answer down to?

Never smooth jass just hella bumpy’’. Really still just Black Music since black is still all the colors smutted together. All kidding and kibitzing aside, we simply play the game of Conduction. As we are forever giving thanks to Butch Morris for showing us The Way.

There’s a James Brown song on NEGROCITY which sounds quite ‘bumpy’

The Cold Sweat Variations’’. Yes, I agree. Mad hella-bumpy for real. Features our trumpeter Lewis Flip Barnes. Who many of your readers know from his work with various Williams Parker projects.. We’ve been knowing Flip for about 35 years now. Met him on The Yard at Howard University,The Capstone of Negro Education. He was always cross campus to class carrying around a trumpet case though he played in no school band. Meanwhile we were rocking our first instrument, this lil Panasonic boom-box upon which we’d only blast the John Coltrane and Pharaoh Sanders Live In Seattle version of ‘Out of This World’’’. We bonded over our mutually abstract and highly conceptual relationship to avant-garde musicality. BTW Please note that on The Cold Sweat Variations’’ our drummer Qasim Naqvi gives you a vine like Zakair Hussein duking it out with Elvin Jones. Bent and slightly spastic head arrangement by our departing Utah bound pianist Myles Reilly.

Might be the first arrangement of a James Brown song we’ve heard with not only no bass, no voice and no guitar but no discernible downbeat.

Such a light and happy beginning for such a darkling album. For the record, Flip kinda hates it — a lil too avant-garde even for him. But he knows the deal: the game of Conduction has never claimed to be democratic. Band knows the deal. You don’t want to hear it on a record, don’t play it in the studio. Unless you’re Lisala. She’s The Queen Bee and we’’re all the drones a bit scared of her. Sister does these wicked impressions of everybody in the band that can make your gonads snap off.

Well alrighty now. Lisala sings on NEGROCITY’s version of Astor Piazzola’s “Libertango”.

With some adroit spoken word there provided by the wonderful avant-soul artist Maya Azucena. The violin of Mazz Swift is also a major mood factor in our interpretation of this very moody song. Maybe the best tune we know about a free woman being chased by her own shadow through the streets of Paris.

There tend to be a lot of free women in Burnt Sugar. More than usual for a a band that traffics in the freer side of improvised music. La Frae Sci, Shelley Nicole, Lisala, Moist Paula Henderson, Mazz Swift, Karma Mayet Johnson, Latasha Nevada Diggs, Imani Uzuri and Maya Azucena from time to time–and now the great Abby Dobson too.

I’d like to say it was some enlightened act of gender-balancing to insure the chromosomal array of the music. But we’re not that scientifically advanced. Its just when Nubian goddesses show up on your bandstand what else can you but get the eff out way and say; ‘’Gwaan gyall gwaan and do that stuff’’.

Abby Dobson kills on ‘’Burning Crosses’’. Some dense lyrics there. Inspired we take it by the link between the Civil Rights Movement, Abu Ghrabe, The Chicago Eight, and the Arab Spring.

Abby strafes that track like a horde of Kamikaze Valkyries.

On the medley of ‘’The Gurus Lover/Claudine’’ the album makes a shift from vocal-feature material to the long form improv you’ guys are better known for. Is this because you guys have spent the last two years being more of a glorified James Brown Melvin Van Peebles Miles Davis David Bowie cover band than playing the game of Conduction.

Pretty much. All the more reason to come back with an album that had several excessive torturing minutes of that freeform funkdafied filth our instrumentalists do so wildly. Cats stretching out long and strong on their axes without a parachute, a compass or a chainsaw in sight

You say instrumentalists but Lisala turns up on the appropriately named “Whut Rough Beast”.

Funny that. We consider OUR vocalists to be instrumentalists too. Especially when they make up lyrics, melodies and sound effects on the spot, in the bloody moment, when all about them are losing their heads and morphing quite like mad. There’s another good description of our music: Xenomorphic. Like The Alien that Nigerian brother Bolaji Badejo played in the original Ridley Scott flick. Also check the “Whut Rough Beast” bass line, where Jared Michael Nickerson is the tether AND mad pumping the low rider-nuss in that joint!

The magnificence that is pianist Vijay Iyer appears on one cut too. As does Yale Professor Michael Veal who wrote those great books on Fela and dub music.

Mike plays quite a mean bass and just ridiculous soprano saxophone on the album. He’ll kick your ass on guitar, traps, gamelan tanned bata drums if you let him as well. Some heads don’t know Vijay is an original Burnt Sugar. Going back to those first studio jam sessions we did on 26th Street at CountDown Studios in the summer of ‘99. Jared on bass, Bruce Mack on synth, Trevor Holder on drums and our original 3 guitar line-up with Rene Akan, Morgan Craft, Ronny Drayton and that badass mofo Kirk Douglas who left us and ran off with The Roots.

Has Garage Band officially joined Burnt Sugar? How much did Steve Jobs pay y’all for that?

Naught but a pittance and penny farthing. We’ve been struggling for three years to get the combination of GB loops and live sound mad-organic. Finally seems to have together on that track Vijay gets down on, “Bliques Haff Moor Funn”. Ditto “Throne of Blood 33 1/3 (Encrypted Vernacular)” which was just Garage Band, Mikel Banks on Freak-a-Phone and those torrid twin guitar tyros Rene Akan and Andre Lassalle. “Throne” is also a homage to many a 90’s night spent lost in the groove at these gone but not forgotten New York House Music clubs: Nells, The Shelter, Palladium, Limelight, Sound Factory. That’s when and where we came to realize the Beethovens, Brahms and (James) Brown of today are all the true DJs –all the ones who respect and twerk The Mix at that masterclass level.

One more thing. About the ghost track, ‘Start Thinking Like An African’’ –who’s that trying to sing on that joint in that crazy WTF pseudoAfrican Caribbean accent?

We don’t know what you talking about Willis.

ALL YA NEEDS THAT NEGROCITY. Release Date: November 5, 2011
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With:  Hamiet Blueitt Band, Greg Bandy’s Jam Session
Time: 6:00pm –10:00pm
Where: Tammany Hall — 152 Orchard Street (between Stanton and Rivington)
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jazzfoundation.org
Cost: $10
Proceeds from this event will benefit the Jazz Foundation of America.

“The true spirit of jazz is a joyous revolt from convention, custom, authority, boredom, even sorrow – from everything that would confine the soul of man and hinder its riding free on the air.”  — J.A. Rogers

About Tammany Societies

Tammany Societies bring together an inter-generational, multidisciplinary group of cultural leaders in multiple fields to create a shared synergy of cultural exchange and to advance and influence the next artistic wave.  The overall experience of the night will take you on a musical journey from the future to the past – starting with the next generation of sound and ending with the Jazz Legends. The event will include a local beverage paired with tastings of the latest farm to table food trends. The first two hours of the evening will highlight musicians who are innovating and redefining jazz and blues music for the next generation of listeners. While the second set will highlight the established craftsman of Jazz and Blues and bring the living legends into venues of current cultural happenings. The night will culminate with an inter-generational jam. This environment offers seasoned veterans a place to meet, perform and network, and presents up-and-comers with the opportunity to find mentors and learn from the originals. This will showcase the music and provide an informal gathering spot for artists and fans alike. Experience a cross-generational gathering of musicians, from former members of the Count Basie band to young prodigies, all sharing the stage together.

About Hamiet Blueitt

The finest baritone saxophonist of the 1970s and beyond, Hamiet Bluiett has demonstrated a huge, impressive sound, superb technique, and a mastery of his horn in every register. In his solos, he can provide an array of tonal colors and harmonic options. A first-rate free player who’s as proficient on standards as in blues, Bluiett has played in many excellent groups, has led his own bands, and has been featured on numerous magnificent recordings. He played with Lester and Joseph Bowie, Charles “Bobo” Shaw, Julius Hemphill and Oliver Lake. He also founded the BAG (Black Artists Group), the St. Louis equivalent of Chicago’s Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). He moved to New York in 1969, and joined Sam Rivers’ large ensemble and Olatunji. Bluiett worked with various bands before joining Charles Mingus’ quintet in 1972, with whom he remained, off and on, until 1974. While his tenure was relatively short, Bluiett helped Mingus crystallize some of the finest music of his last years. After Mingus, Bluiett performed and recorded with Abdullah Ibrahim, Hemphill and others.

Bluiett, Hemphill, Lake and David Murray formed a quartet in 1976 for a New Orleans concert. They decided to remain intact as a working unit and named themselves the World Saxophone Quartet. They continued recording and performing into the ‘90s, with Arthur Blythe replacing Hemphill. The WSQ has been cited as one of the key groups of the ‘80s and ‘90s; Down Beat and the New York Times consider them among the most important acoustic jazz quartets performing today. In 1996 they recorded their acclaimed Justin Time

About Greg Bandy

A Charles Mingus discovery at age 20, Greg Bandy has played with many prominent jazz artists over the last thirty-plus years: Joe Henderson, Betty Carter, Pharaoh Sanders, Freddie Hubbard, Olu Dara, Curtis Fuller, Jack McDuff, Leon Thoman, Lee Morgan, Freddie Hubbard, Stanley Turrentine, George Benson, Yusef Lateef and many more, securing his status as a living legend. The New Yorker, commenting on one of Gary Bartzs Quartet’s recent Village Vanguard appearances, wrote of Greg, “one of those rare old-school drummers who remind you what the art of jazz percussion is all about, adds class as well as rhythmic friction to Bartz’s band.” Mr. Bandy’s 1997 debut CD “Lightning in a Bottle” garnered two Grammy nominations. He produces “Bandy Does Blakey,” a tribute to one of his mentors, the late Art Blakey, and reunites former members of Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. An inspiring educator, many prominent musicians in jazz today credit his mentoring and tutelage for their success. This percussion virtuoso conducts his seminar explaining the African migration with music. Beginning with African rhythms, he plays his way through South America, the Caribbean and continues the trip to New Orleans up the Mississippi River and across America. Whether at Lincoln Center, the Smithsonian or a corner bar, Greg’s playing is an anthology of all the great drummers.

About the Jazz Foundation of America

Jazz Foundation of America has kept Jazz and Blues alive for 22 years.  They are the only national organization dedicated to saving the lives and homes of elder Jazz and Blues musicians in crisis — musicians who have made our world richer through their music. JFA has grown to support over 6,000 cases a year with emergency assistance and work opportunities. Every day, they help clients in need who often have nowhere else to turn: the Emergency Assistance program keeps the electricity on, the rent or mortgage paid, and food on the table, in addition to providing counseling and referrals for pro bono services. They help to reestablish a musician’s sense of dignity and purpose through performance opportunities with the Agnes Varis Jazz in the Schools program which brings music to schools, nursing homes, hospitals and other venues throughout the country. JFA also save lives through their partnership with Englewood Hospital and Medical Center doctors and staff who have been serving JFA clients for 18 years. With this network of caring professionals, JFA social workers provide crucial services that keep many of these accomplished music veterans alive and productive, doing what they love to do – make music.
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• Artist: Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber
• Event: Jazz Foundation of America presents Tammany Societies: Jazz Review
• Date: Wednesday, November 9th 2011
• Time: 6:00pm
• City: Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber in NYC, NY
• Venue: Tammany Hall
• Address: 152 Orchard Street (between Stanton and Rivington)
• Country: United States
• Admission: $10.00
• Notes: Jazz Foundation of America presents Tammany Societies: Jazz Review “Freedom our Rock” Proceeds from this event will benefit the Jazz Foundation of America. With Hamiet Blueitt Band, Greg Bandy’s Jam Session
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Menu:

Grill Master B. Mack’s (fresh off the Grill):

- Whole Grilled Tilapia,
– Deep Rubbed Grilled Chicken
– Deep Rubbed Barbecued Chicken.
– B. Mack’s Avocado-Sardine Dip!

Chef Stefanie’s Sushi Rolls (made fresh while you wait):

*umeboshi (salted plum)/avocado roll
*grilled eggplant teriyaki
*gobo (pickled burdock)
*spicy yellowtail roll
*spicy tuna roll
*scallop ponzu roll
*salmon skin roll
*grilled shrimp w/avocado
*vegetable tempura roll **
** with broccoli, sweet potato, zucchini, eggplant, mushrooms, red & yellow peppers

Sides:

- Veggie Pasta Salad
– Garden Salad
– Stef’s Homemade Salad Dressings: Caesar,  Balsamic or Cumin Lime
– Marinated Kale
– Rice & Beans

Dinner Party Schedule:

6pm — Dinner ( only 30 tickets will be sold ) (Cash Bar)

8pm — DJ Fauzi Dance Party

10pm — Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber set

12am — DJ Fauzi cool-down

Cards will be played throughout the night; get down or get up.……

Dinner Party Location:
The Village @ Gureje at Nova Bar and Garden Lounge
884–886 Pacific Street  (between Underhill Ave. & Washington Ave.)
Prospect Heights, Brooklyn NY 11238
718–857-2522

Ticket Prices:

$35.00 — dinner-cd-t shirt-performance**
Only a limited number of dinner tickets will be sold! You can purchase these in advance by calling The Village @ Gureje. (A $1.00 service charge will be applied to phone orders)

$25.00 — cd-t shirt-performance**

$15.00 — cd-performance

$10.00 — performance

**$5.00 discount when you purchase two or more $35.00 or $25.00 tickets.

Advance tickets can be purchased at The Village @ Gureje
– 718–857-2522
-  gureje.com/site/schedule/

Look forward to seeing you in the Place to Be on November 5th cause as Those Who Already Know can tell you, once the Burnt Sugar Crew starts to Party it’s an On and On Til the Break of Dawn Affair!!!!

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• Artist: Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber
• Event: The Black Rock Coaltion Presents:
• Date: Friday, September 16th 2011
• Time: 6:00pm
• City: Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber in New York City, NY
• Venue: Bryant Park Fall Festival
• Country: United States
• Admission: FREE
• Age restrictions: All Ages
• Notes: Opening night of the Bryant Park Fall Festival Greg Tate, Vernon Reid, Melvin Van Peebles and Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber rock the JB, Bowie, Van Peebles, Miles and Sugar Songbooks. – festival presenter – Bank of America – performance sponsor: the Black Rock Coalition Free to the Public Bryant Park is situated behind the New York Public Library in midtown Manhattan, between 40th and 42nd Streets & Fifth and Sixth Avenues. Public Transportation: Take the B, D, F, or M train to 42nd Street/Bryant Park Take the 7 to 5th Avenue
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