- GJF nominated for Premier’s Award for Excellence in the Arts
- Three Thursdays of Jazz: Thursday 1
- GJF Art Auction raises $21,000
- WORKSHOP: Burnt Sugar, on conduction technique
- CONCERT: Burnt Sugar brings hot sound to Guelph
- 2008 Winter Concerts
- Jazz Festival restructures, hires new staff
- Three October 2007 concerts
- 2007 Post-Festival Thanks
- People Get Ready: The Future of Jazz is Now!
Current News
CONCERT: Burnt Sugar brings hot sound to Guelph
Burnt Sugar, a New York-based improvisational music band, brings its pan-stylistic sound to the University Centre Courtyard at the University of Guelph, on Friday, March 28 at noon. The event is open to the public and is free of charge. It also will be broadcast live-to-air on CFRU 93.3 FM.
FREE March 28 noon-hour concert at U of G with New York band Burnt Sugar
The group forges its own musical hybrid by combining various styles, eras, and genres and the use of cutting-edge music technology to explore the connective tissue binding jazz, rock, funk, 20th century composition, and African music in a lyrical, seductive, exploratory, improvisational manner.
Founder Greg Tate uses conduction – an interpretative system developed by Lawrence “Butch” Morris – to guide the band through improvisations on each of its song forms. As a result, each performance is an original mutation in tune with the collective personality of the audience as well as the individual character and talents of the players.
The event is sponsored by the Guelph Jazz Festival and the U of G Central Student Association. For more info on Burnt Sugar, see: www.burntsugarindex.com
John Zorn’s Electric Masada
‘Masada’ refers to John Zorn’s book of 500-plus brief compositions that, in their deployment of traditional ‘Jewish’ modes as provocations for improvisation in oft-extreme contexts, are at the core of his exploration of what he calls “Radical Jewish Culture,” played here by the most active of his many ensembles.
