Greg Tate (conduction) Omega Moon, Mikel Banks, Karma Mayet Johnson (vocals) Latasha Nevada Diggs (effected vocals) Lewis “Flip” Barnes Jr. (trumpet) Micah Gaugh, V Jeffery Smith (saxes) Avram Fefer (tenor sax) Moist Paula Henderson (bari sax) Vernon Reid, Andre Lassalle aka “Day Glo Jenkins”, Ben Tyree (guitars) Jason DiMatteo (acoustic bass) Jared Michael Nickerson (electric bass) Chris Eddleton (drums)
Brown Girls Burlesque & The Burnt Sugar Arkestra Present “Funk To The Future”, celebrating Sun Ra at Coney Island’s Burlesque at the Beach.
Hosted by Ashley Brockington & Monstah Black of Cabaret Cataplexy
Time: Thursday August 2nd, 9PM
Location: Burlesque @ the Beach, 1208 Surf Ave. Coney Island
Tickets: $15 on sale here
The legacy of Sun Ra has inspired countless artists and influence music art and culture with his other worldly innovations in jazz and electronic music, performance and film. Born in Birmingham, Al in 1914 he migrated to Chicago where he left his mark on burlesque history playing in burlesque shows throughout the Midwest circuit.
He was one of the first jazz masters to introduce electronics to the form using the bass and keyboards to introduce the world to a new galaxy of music. In 1986 he teamed up with another futuristic genius John Cage to play a legendary produced by Coney Island’s Sideshows by the Seashore.
Twenty-six years later, Coney Island USA presents an annual summer showcase of the New York’s leading burlesque troupes. Brown Girls Burlesque (BGB) is proud to share in this tradition for a third straight year. BGB has been an innovative force in the neo-burlesque scene for the past 5 years creating sold-out shows that entertain, educate, titillate and liberate!
Brown Girls Burlesque is a company of women of color dedicated to creating their own reflection in the art form of burlesque using whimsy and the theatrical depth. BGB stands out in the crowded space of the neo-burlesque movement by circumventing the classical and new school interpretations of burlesque by blending cultural traditions, experiences, and a distinctive artistic aesthetic.
The BGB Lovelies:
The Incredible Edible Akynos
Chicava “Here comes the Gold” HoneyChild
Essence Revealed – The Bubblin’ Brown Suga or Burlesque
exHOTic “Made you think about that” Other
jazabel jade – Bringing love, sex, death and luck!
sister selva – A flirtation with awakening
“So you want to go down to Coney Island to see some burlesque but your typical partner in crime tried to act a little too highbrow for a night of naked ladies wearing tassels? We’d highly suggest this evening that doubles as a tribute to the master of futuristic jazz and funk Sun Ra as your best bet. Brought to you by Brown Girls Burlesque & The Burnt Sugar Arkestra, this evening will surely set your friend straight on how fun burlesque on Coney Island can be ”
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Burnt Sugar is honored to take part in the celebration for EMEFE‘s new joint. The party starts on Friday, July 6.
Burnt Sugar hits on Saturday July 7.
Just $10!
“Recorded at Mason Jar Music in Brooklyn, Good Future features nine original and hard-hitting tracks, with guest vocal appearances by Chico Mann and Gabriel Garzon-Montano. Good Future is a powerful statement by a powerful band—it is a refreshing and energetic mixture of afrobeat, funk, soul and rock, all fused together to form the irresistible EMEFE sound. The music sounds like a band that is excited and ready to make listeners forget their worries and dance. After listening to all 9 tracks, through every horn solo, every group chant and every drum breakdown, you can’t deny that EMEFE exists to bring a Good Future to everybody within earshot.
The band will perform on Fri, Jul 6 and Sat, Jul 7 with performances by very special guests. These shows will kick off an album release tour throughout July. You can find more information at www.emefemusic.com.”
We’re thrilled to be returning to Sons d’hiver Festival 2013.
Écrivain et critique musical new-yorkais, Greg Tate est co-fondateur avec le guitariste Vernon Reid de la Black Rock Coalition. Les voilà tous les deux réunis pour un projet mené grâce au grand orchestre, vaste et imprévisible trafic musical post-moderne, créé par Tate : Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber. Au programme : 2 concerts aux concepts différents entrecoupés d’une pause-débat, afin de dilater l’espace-temps nécessaire à tout approfondissement de la musique, du plaisir et du sens.
CINÉ CONCERT // 16H
GREG TATE : DIRECTION, LAPTOP / LATASHA N. DIGGS : EFFETS VOCAUX, ÉLECTRONIQUES /
ABBY DOBSON, CARL HANCOCK RUX, OLUMIDE POPOOLA : VOIX / SATCH HOYT, MICAH GAUGH, LEWIS “FLIP” BARNES, MIKELS BANKS : CUIVRES /
ANDRE ‘DAY GLO’ LASSALLE : GUITARES / BRUCE MACK : CLAVIERS, VOIX /JASON DIMATTEO : CONTREBASSE / MARQUE GILMORE : BATTERIE / SATCH HOYT : PERCUSSION
Nous commencerons par “Body and Soul”, un ciné-concert de Burnt Sugar consacré au film d’Oscar Micheaux. Ce film de 1924 marque les débuts de l’une des personnalités les plus connues de la culture afro-américaine, tant par ses talents de chanteurs (opéra et gospel) que d’acteur et d’activiste politique : Paul Robeson. Micheaux lui-même participa au mouvement de la “Harlem Renaissance” et fut un pionnier du cinéma afro-américain.
DEBAT // 18H
GREG TATE Critique musical, “conducteur” de Burnt Sugar / ROBERT O’MEALLY Professeur à l’Université Columbia
Cette conférence se déroulera durant la journée consacrée à Burnt Sugar. Elle sera l’occasion de mieux appréhender le rôle de ce collectif de musiciens ainsi que celui de la Black Rock Coalition, tout en portant un regard sur l’importance de la culture afro-américaine comme vecteur de nombreuses transformations dans le champ de la musique et de l’art (de vivre).
CONCERT // 20H30
VERNON REID : DIRECTION/ GREG TATE : DIRECTION ET DÉSORIENTATION ARTISTIQUE, GUITARE /
JARED MICHAEL NICKERSON : PRODUCTION EXECUTIVE, BASSE ÉLECTRIQUE
CARL HANCOCK RUX : MC / ABBY DOBSON, SHELLEY NICOLE, VINIA MOJICA, MIKEL BANKS : VOIX /
V. JEFFREY SMITH, LEWIS ‘FLIP’ BARNES JR., MICAH GAUGH, ‘MOIST’ PAULA HENDERSON,
DAVE “SMOOTA” SMITH : CUIVRES / ANDRE ‘DAY GLO’ LASSALLE, BEN TYREE : GUITARES /
LEON GRUENBAUM, BRUCE MACK : CLAVIERS / LAFRAE SCI : BATTERIE
Et pour clôturer la journée, nous assisterons au travail de redimensionnement historique auquel se sont attelés les musiciens de Burnt Sugar, sous la conduction partagée de Greg Tate et de Vernon Reid, avec l’improbable recréation des musiques 70’s de Steely Dan et de David Bowie, l’artiste mutant. Qu’en reste-t-il aujourd’hui ? Que peut-on faire de ces filons ? Réponse(s) en musiques impensables.
www.sonsdhiver.org/concerts/burnt_sugar_samedi_2_fevrier
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
(le) poisson rouge
158 Bleecker Street
New York, NY 10012
Phone: (212) 505-FISH (3474)
lepoissonrouge.com/events/view/3324
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
$15 advance
$18 day of show
Buy Tickets Here
Burnt Sugar is pleased to be taking part in Vision Festival 17.
Our performance is at 7pm on Sunday, June 17.
The lineup is outstanding.
June 11 – June 17, 2012
(Schedule is subject to change – visit this page for the most current schedule)
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
Buy Tickets here
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