The Jazz Foundation Presents: Ronnie Burrage Holographic Principle
August 27, 2023
Brooklyn Museum | 02:00pm - 03:30pm | Free
The Jazz Foundation of America presents Ronnie Burrage Holographic Principle
St Louis-born Drummer, percussionist, keyboardist, composer, arranger, band leader and music educator Ronnie Burrage has a style drawn most notably from the musical genres of “jazz”, “funk” and “soul”. He had an active musical childhood, performing with Duke Ellington at the age of 9 and later playing drums, percussion, piano and vibraphone with the Soul Flamingos, Fontanella Bass, the Oliver Sain Band and more. After attending the University of North Texas on a full music Scholarship, he moved to New York City at age 17 and began playing with jazz musicians similarly rooted in St Louis--John Hicks, Hamiet Bluiett, and Lester and Joseph Bowie. With the latter he was a founding member of Defunkt. Sideman work with greats like Sonny Fortune, McCoy Tyner, Sonny Rollins, and Jackie McLean informed his own style as a leader, beginning with the Burrage Band which featured notables Kenny Kirkland, Marcus Miller, Wallace Roney and Wynton and Branford Marsalis. Burrage has taught at Jazzmobile, University of the Arts, the New School, and Penn State, and founded the nonprofit World Rhythm Academy. His current group, Holographic Principle, features his own compositions and imaginatively reworked standards.
Presented by the Jazz Foundation of America, supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and by the Howard Gilman Foundation.
St Louis-born Drummer, percussionist, keyboardist, composer, arranger, band leader and music educator Ronnie Burrage has a style drawn most notably from the musical genres of “jazz”, “funk” and “soul”. He had an active musical childhood, performing with Duke Ellington at the age of 9 and later playing drums, percussion, piano and vibraphone with the Soul Flamingos, Fontanella Bass, the Oliver Sain Band and more. After attending the University of North Texas on a full music Scholarship, he moved to New York City at age 17 and began playing with jazz musicians similarly rooted in St Louis--John Hicks, Hamiet Bluiett, and Lester and Joseph Bowie. With the latter he was a founding member of Defunkt. Sideman work with greats like Sonny Fortune, McCoy Tyner, Sonny Rollins, and Jackie McLean informed his own style as a leader, beginning with the Burrage Band which featured notables Kenny Kirkland, Marcus Miller, Wallace Roney and Wynton and Branford Marsalis. Burrage has taught at Jazzmobile, University of the Arts, the New School, and Penn State, and founded the nonprofit World Rhythm Academy. His current group, Holographic Principle, features his own compositions and imaginatively reworked standards.
Presented by the Jazz Foundation of America, supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and by the Howard Gilman Foundation.
