Burnt Sugar, also known as Burnt Sugar, the Arkestra Chamber, is an American improvisational band. The band's music combines the influences of funk, jazz, rock, reggae, soul, hip hop, heavy metal, and 20th-century classical music.
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- Dec 16, 2021
14:57 PMLarry Mizell, Jr. and Riz Rollins pay tribute to the iconic writer and musician Greg Tate in this KEXP Sound & Vision essay: www.kexp.org - Dec 16, 2021
5:16 AMGreg Tate. Writer, cultural observer, critic, musician, mentor. Celebrated Black culture. "How do you begin to find the words. How does one even type out, or speak, the phrase: "finding the words for Greg Tate." It doesn't even sound right. Cuz who is Greg Tate if not the one...THE one..who always has the words, for us...who sees the vision, makes the connections, reveals the lineage, invokes the spirits within and honors how they--always--speak through us. In those days when almost no one thought we were worth looking at or seriously thinking about at all. He saw us. Loved us. And spoke that love with so much poetry and clarity it became an architecture. A foundation we all get to build upon." Jay Smooth - Dec 13, 2021
18:44 PM"More than two decades ago, the cultural critic Greg Tate founded Burnt Sugar, a sprawling New York improv unit, currently numbering some two dozen members, that roam freely through all manner of internationally historical styles, particularly Black music." - burntsugarthearkestrachamber.bandcamp.com RIP Greg Tate. - Nov 29, 2021
16:36 PMThe bassist Jared Michael Nickerson, Tate’s co-leader, underpins “Angels Over Oakanda,” the band’s first album in four years, with rhythms that sweep the music along like a tide. Taking after the late Butch Morris, Tate conducts the players’ improvisations, which are sharp throughout, nowhere more so than over the skintight reggaeton groove on “Repatriation of the Midnight Moors Inna Oakanda. - burntsugarthearkestrachamber.bandcamp.com
