Jazz Articles about Ronnie Burrage

Lajos Dudas: Radio Days Vol. 2

by Mark Sullivan
July 26, 2022

The previous compilation Radio Days: The Music Of Lajos Dudas (JazzSick Records, 2016) was released to celebrate German-Hungarian jazz clarinetist/composer Lajos Dudas' 75th birthday. It collected performances dating from 1984 to the early 2000s: about twenty years. The new volume's coverage is both wider and deeper. The dates range from 1976 to 2017—over forty years—and the total time is about the length of three CDs. It comes on a special memory card, an unusual format well-suited to what Dudas describes ...

Carl Grubbs: Brother Soul

by AAJ Italy Staff
December 29, 2006

Non è un nome notissimo, quello di Carl Grubbs - che forse qualcuno ricorderà nella prima formazione dello straordinario sestetto di Julius Hemphill o le più recenti incisioni con Odean Pope - ma giunto ormai oltre la soglia dei sessant'anni, il sassofonista della Pennsylvania è certamente artista di solida esperienza e buona personalità. In questa incisione per la CIMP, registrata nel giugno del 2005, lo troviamo alla testa di un quartetto “pianoless" in compagnia di Salim Washington - che al ...

Ronnie Burrage: In It

by Russ Musto
July 16, 2005

The multitalented Ronnie Burrage has shown himself to be one of the most exciting drummers in jazz as a sideman with McCoy Tyner, Sonny Rollins, Jerry Gonzalez's Fort Apache Band, and Sonny Fortune. As a leader he's also demonstrated his abilities as a composer, arranger, percussionist, and keyboard player. On In It he adds scat singing to his already impressive list of credentials.

Burrage has a crisp rhythmic attack and a pleasant voice with a timbre reminiscent of a young ...