Burnt Sugar

Thursday, July 15, 6-10 PM | $10/$5 for members
Part of Creative Cocktail Hour

Burnt Sugar will mash-up the albums James Brown's Live At The Apollo Volume 2 & James Brown's Funky Divas.

Founded by writer, conductor, producer, musician and Village Voice icon Greg Tate, Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber is a sprawling band of musicians whose prodigious chops cover a wide swath of the experimental soul-jazz-hip hop spectrum. Anchored by Jason DiMatteo (acoustic bass) and Jared Michael Nickerson (electric bass), the live version of the group can feature as many as 22 players at any one time.

The line up at Real Art Ways will be:

Greg Tate - conduction/guitar
Karma Mayet Johnson - vocals ( Meshell Ndegecello - Lil MonstaH - Bernice Johnson Reagon - the Mercy Suite )
Mikel Banks - vocals - harmonica - freak-a-phone (Jay Z - Roughstars - Marque Gilmore )
Derrin Maxwell - mc Mazz Swift - vocals/violin ( Brazz Tree - Suphala - Yohimbe Brothers ( Vernon Reid & DJ Logic) )
Will Martina - cello (Dave Liebman - Josh Roseman - MuthaWit - Kyp Malone - JT Lewis & Brandon Ross - Jason Lindner )
Lewis "Flip" Barnes Jr. - trumpet (William Parker Quintet - the Holmes Brothers)
Arvam Fefer - tenor sax (Bobby Few - David Murray Big Band - Joseph Bowie Big Band)
Paula Henderson - bari-sax (Gordon Gano - Gogol Bordello - TV on the Radio - Reverend Vince Anderson - Baja & the Dryed Eye Crew)
Asim Barnes - guitar
Andre Lassalle - guitar (Sophia Ramos - Vernon Reid )
W. Myles Reilly - keys Jason DiMatteo ( Carl Hancock Rux - The Citizens - NYCGMC - Jon Christopher - Tamar Kali )
Jared Michael Nickerson - electric bass ( Wadada Leo Smith - The The - Freedy Johnston - Yohimbe Brothers - Charlie Musselwhite )
Chris Eddleton - drums (Liz Wright - Marta Toperova - Claudio Roditi - Saul Williams - Cyro Baptistas' Beat The Donkey)

This is the 5th time Burnt Sugar has performed at Real Art Ways.

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