Burnt Sugar Arkestra

Wednesday, August 23rd @ 7:00 pm & 10:00 pm

About the Show

“The group’s purpose is unmistakable: to shake things up, your booty included.” – Carlo Wolff, Jazztimes.com

“a fleet-footed big band, sliding and swaggering through galactic R&B, brawny jazz and electric funk like a Sun Ra-size spin” – David Fricke, Rolling Stone

Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber, the provocative mashup big band led by Village Voice icon Greg Tate and bassist Jared Nickerson, “caramelizes” jazz composer Max Roach’s “Freedom Now” suite with Burnt Sugar’s Greatest Hits (1999-2017).

This wild show will focus on the timely and searing social-justice-seeking songs of Max Roach and Abby Lincoln from the 1960s, also dropping in a couple of the band’s own greatest hits (why not?) or in Burnt Sugar speak: “Groiddest Schizznits.”

Performers

Greg Tate – conduction/guitar/laptop
Shelley Nicole – vocals/percussion
Julie Brown – vocals/effected vocals
Karma Mayet Johnson – vocals
Leon Gruenbaum – samchillean/piano
Bruce Mack – keyboards/vocals
Lewis Barnes – trumpet
Micah Gaugh – alto saxes/vocals
Avram Fefer – tenor sax
Paula Henderson – bari sax
Ben Tyree – guitar
Jason DiMatteo – acoustic bass
Val Jeanty – electronic percussion
Chris Eddleton – drums
Jared Michael Nickerson – electric bass

Photos by Rudy Lu and Ed Marshall

Showtimes

Burnt Sugar Arkestra

August 23, 2017 - 7:00pm “We Insist! Freedom Now” Suite ~ where BSA will "caramelize" the pivotal and still timely 1960's social-justice-seeking songs of Abby Lincoln, Max Roach and Oscar Brown Jr.

Burnt Sugar Arkestra

August 23, 2017 - 10:00pm “BSA's Groiddest Schizznits” or for those unfamiliar with Greg Tate speak BSA’s Greatest Hits (1999-2017) will include tunes from their latest release "All You Zombies Dig The Luminosity" which in the current issue of The Wire Michael A. Gonzales writes " the multiracial group sound like the big poppas and mommas of baby boogie Childish Gambino as they cosmic slop bop across musical high wires."

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