SteadyTumbling

Thursday night in Coney Island: The Burnt Sugar Arkestra & Brown Girls Burlesque “Funk to the Future” celebrating Sun Ra at Coney Island’s Burlesque at The Beach:

The legacy of Sun Ra has inspired count­less artists and influ­ence music art and cul­ture with his other worldly inno­va­tions in jazz and elec­tronic music, per­for­mance and film. Born in Birm­ing­ham, Al in 1914 he migrated to Chicago where he left his mark on bur­lesque his­tory play­ing in bur­lesque shows through­out the Mid­west circuit.

He was one of the first jazz mas­ters to intro­duce elec­tron­ics to the form using the bass and key­boards to intro­duce the world to a new galaxy of music. In 1986 he teamed up with another futur­is­tic genius John Cage to play a leg­endary concert pro­duced by Coney Island’s Sideshows by the Seashore.

Via Burnt Sugar’s fb page:

[Conductor Greg Tate wrote on the origins of Burnt Sugar in a 2004 Village Voice column:

Toni Morrison and Samuel Delany both say they write novels they’d like to read but cannot find. In humbler moments I imagine Burnt Sugar my self-pleasuring answer to the void. I invented a band I wanted to hear but could not find.