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Ronnie Burrage (born October 19, 1959, St. Louis, Missouri) is an American jazz drummer. His style draws elements from hard bop, bebop, funk, and soul. Burrage sang in the St. Louis Cathedral boys' choir from age seven to eleven and performed with Duke Ellington at the age of nine. He also played drums, percussion and vibraphone and sang in several funk, R & B and jazz groups including The Soul Flamingos, Fontella Bass, Oliver Sain, Third Circuit & Spirit, Rainbow Glass, and Expression Jazz Quintet. His introduction to jazz was formed from listening to the music almost every waking hour from uncles and grandparents. His uncles, Allen, Michael, Noel, Dale aka Ahmad and trumpeter Jan Mahr aka, Rasul Siddik were most inspirational to his pursuance in learning this music, as each had a love of jazz in all its forms and facets. Burrage played in the St. Louis Metropolitan Jazz Quintet from 1975 to 1977 and was considered a child prodigy to be playing with standing members of this particular quintet such as John Mixon, who played bass with Grant Green and Miles Davis, James "Iron Head" Matthews piano, Freddie Washington, Willie Akins saxophone and Ben Jones trumpet. He was also a favorite of vocalist Mae Wheeler's jazz group, featuring guitarist Marvin Horne. From age 15 to 17, Burrage was also involved in a collective band called No Commercial Potential with Mark Friedrick on keyboards, Darryl Mixon on bass (son of John Mixon), and Richie Daniels on guitar that opened many fusion concerts for George Duke, Gino Vannelli and others. He played in many jazz clubs, concerts and venues including St. Louis' annual "Afro Day in the Park". Also while still a teenager, Burrage and his own band, Alexis, managed by his mother, Cosandra Burrage, worked with correctional institutions throughout St. Louis and Illinois in an outreach program to bring about positive change. At 17, Burrage moved to New York City and played with Sonny Fortune, Lester Bowie, Defunkt, Teruo Nakamura, Sir Roland Hanna, Major Holley, Arthur Blythe, Jackie McLean, Andrew Hill, and McCoy Tyner. During his three-year tenure with McCoy Tyner, Burrage did frequent master classes at The Berkeley College of Music in Boston where many great jazz musicians were students. Such notables as Branford Marsalis, Frank "Kuumba"Lacy, Donald Harrison, Terence Conely, Victor Bailey, Gene Jackson, Kevin Eubanks, and many other successful musicians. He played with Woody Shaw and then cofounded Third Kind of Blue with John Purcell and Anthony Cox. Later work includes recordings with Defunkt, Barbara Dennerlein, Michal Urbaniak, Ray Anderson, Abdullah Ibrahim, Joanne Brackeen, Jack Walrath, Sonny Fortune, Courtney Pine, Joe Zawinul, Archie Shepp, the World Saxophone Quartet and Gary Thomas. Burrage toured with Wayne Shorter, one of the greatest jazz composers of the late 20th century. "The Burrage Ensemble" was Ronnie's first band playing primarily in New York City from 1980-1983 as well as jazz festivals in Philadelphia, St. Louis, Boston and Washington, DC. Members were Kenny Kirkland on piano and keyboards, Marcus Miller on bass, Joe Ford on saxes and flute. Other members of the ensemble included Rasul Siddik on trumpet, Branford Marsalis on sax, Avery Sharpe on basses, Wynton Marsalis on trumpet, and Wallace Roney on trumpet. In 1978, on a full music scholarship, Burrage attended North Texas State University. At Jazz Mobile N.Y.C. from 1994-2002, he was Instructor Drum and Percussion while being Instructor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from 1994-1996. He was Substitute Instructor at The New School in New York, New York from 1992-2000. Currently, Burrage is Producer and Artistic Director at Bluenoise Studio, Frederick, Maryland as well as Professor of Practice at The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania teaching Hip-Hop Music and Culture and A Closer World in the Art, African and African-American Studies and Integrative Arts Departments. ==Tours== * Ronnie Burrage Band. Austria, Martinique, USA, 2012 * Ronnie Burrage Group. USA, Martinique, Europe, 2011 * Azar Lawrence, USA * Third Kind of Blue, USA * Band Burrage, East Coast * “Q.K.R.” w / Quincy Troupe, Kelvyn Bell, East Coast, St. Louis, USA 2010 * Bluenoise, Central Pennsylvania Arts Festival * Ronnie Burrage Group, Wash. DC, Baltimore, State College, Philadelphia West Oak Lane Festival, Philadelphia 2009 * Archie Shepp, San Francisco Jazz Festival * Ronnie Burrage Group, Russia, Siberia * Third Kind Of Blue, w/ Essiet Okun Essiet & Alain Bradette, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., State College, PA, New York 2008 * Ronnie Burrage Group, Orlando, St. Louis, Russia, Siberia * The Collective Arkadi Owrutski, Frank Lacy, Joe Ford, Russia, Ukraine * Savion Glover St. Thomas, London * Band Burrage West Oak Lane Jazz Festival Philadelphia, Baltimore, St. Louis, Orlando * Frank Morgan USA * Archie Shepp NYC 2007 * Sam Rivers U.S.A., Europe * Witzigmann Palozzo, Munich * Chris Byrne Central Pennsylvania Arts Festival State College PA * Band Burrage w/ Benito Gonzales, Mike Boone, Sid Simmons * NYC, Philadelphia, Baltimore, St. Louis 2006 * Band Burrage w/Jeff Rupert, Bobby Keoble & Doug Matthews Orlando, FL. * Ronnie Burrage Trio w/Benito Gonzales & James King, Baltimore and Frederick, MD * Ronnie Burrage & Othello Montelaux Tribute to Jaco Pastorius “Hollywood Jazz * Festival” Hollywood, Florida Ronnie Burrage Trio w/Sid Simmons & James King An * Die Muzik Hall Ronnie Burrage & Magnets Portland Oregon Ronnie Burrage * Trio performed for the Inaugural Celebration / Assemblyman Roger Green N.Y. * Root Down Blue’s Alley Carl Grubbs East Coast Tour 2005 * Jackie & Rene McClean w/James Moody & Gary Bartz / African Sax Summit * North Sea Festival Cape Town South Africa * Frank Morgan USA * Magnets U.S.A. 2004 * Wallace Roney, Europe Japan USA * Frank Morgan U.S.A. * Ronnie Burrage Monterey Mexico, U.S.A. 2001 – 2003 * Archie Shepp Group Europe * Stafford James Project Europe * Gary Bartz Ensemble New York 2000 * Michal Urbaniak, Poland, Europe * Bobby Watson & Horizon, Italy, NYC * Band Burrage St. Louis Mo., Kentucky * Coltrane Legacy Big Band w/ Reggie Workman, Magic Triangle Jazz Series, Amherst MA.,PECO Jazz Festival Philadelphia, Lincoln Center, N.Y.C. * John Butler Group, Peru * Sonny Simmons Penn State, Knitting Factory N.Y.C. 1999 * Band Burrage Jazz Arts Festival / Blue’s Alley Washington DC, Sweet Basils / JVC Jazz Fest. The Knitting Factory NYC, The Iron Horse Café, North Hampton MA. * The World Saxophone Quartet / featured artist in the “World Cup Parade” / Banlieues Blue Fest. Paris France Festival, Ancona Jazz Festival Ancona Italy * The Firm w/ Reggie Workman, Ernie Watts, Mark Whitfield, Ronnie Burrage, Litchfield Jazz Festival * Reggie Workman's Coltrane Legacy, Jazz Arts Festival Washington, DC * Sonny Fortune The Flint Michigan Jazz Festival, The Kentucky Jazz Arts Festival 1998 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ronnie Burrage」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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