Ronnie Burrage & Holographic Principle - Millennium Stage (August 22, 2024)

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Live Tonight on Millennium Stage: Holographic Principle is an exceptional all-star band of inventive musicians put together by drummer and composer Ronnie Burrage.

Burrage grew up in St. Louis and moved to New York in the late 1970s. He became a founding member of Defunkt, a downtown band fusing improvisation with free jazz, funk, and rock. Burrage left Defunkt to join McCoy Tyner’s band when he was 20s. In the same period, he founded The Burrage Ensemble whose members were Kenny Kirkland, Marcus Miller, Wynton and Branford Marsalis, his uncle Rasul Siddik, Joe Ford, Avery Sharpe, and Wallace Roney. Since then, Burrage has been part of a myriad of projects. He served as a drummer in groups led by Sonny Fortune, Jackie McLean Woody Shaw, Sir Roland Hanna, Sonny Rollins, Pat Metheny, Chico Freeman, Jaco Pastorius, Wayne Shorter, Michael Brecker, Stanley Cowell, Archie Shepp Bobby Hutcherson, Hamiet Bluiett and others. He has been a leader of his own ensembles up to the present day.

Holographic Principle’s music is steeped in tradition and reflects the spirit of Miles Davis and Weather Report, creating new sounds within music. Burrage’s band members have achieved strong recognition on the international jazz scene and shared the stage with a diversity of artists going from Henry Threadgill to Dizzy Gillespie, Victor Bailey, and Joel Ross. Together with Burrage they celebrate the many styles and eras that have shaped their musical vocabulary and inspired their boundlessly creative output.

Holographic Principle features compositions from different band members and traverses aspects of jazz, funk, soul, fusion, straight-ahead, and world music. Their record Dance of the Great Spirit was Grammy®-nominated for 2020 Best Jazz Instrumental Album. Don’t miss this amazing musical journey in the best tradition of Black culture.