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Nashville's City Newspaper, Spin Factor >>
During its decade-plus tenure the improvisational ensemble Burnt Sugar has brilliantly expanded musical frontiers, obliterated notions about the nature of improvisation and ignored conventional notions about idiomatic limits and restrictions.
The group’s range of influences, membership and style are constantly in transition and their newest release offers daring and exciting works that easily move from hard bop and the blues to outside rock, funk and soul.
Guitarist and songwriter Greg Tate supervises under a system called “conduction” where a series of hand and baton signals cue different themes and players. But such songs as “Thorazine,” “Dominata” and the three-part “Chains and Water” are vastly more alluring, appealing and enjoyable than any technical description or breakdown.
Burnt Sugar plays challenging, assertive and daring numbers, and openly rejects the idea audiences won’t accept or embrace fluid, unpredictable and exciting music.
By Ron Wynn 05/18/09 >> go there
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