Ronnie Burrage Group
Ronnie Burrage [drums]
Eric Person [saxophone]
David Gilmore [guitar]
Alex Collins [piano]
Lonnie Plaxico [bass]
Ronnie Burrage is considered to be a virtuoso, exceptionally skilled and regarded as one of the best in the business at his craft. He has toured all four continents from Siberia to South Africa to Japan. Ronnie is a well-respected educator who’s biography is vibrant and dynamically diverse. He has graced stages with the who’s who of jazz such as Wayne Shorter, Sonny Rollins, Pat Metheny, Jaco Pastorius, Frank Morgan, Wallace Roney, Jackie & Rene McLean, James Moody, Gary Bartz, Archie Shepp, Reggie Workman, Joe Zawinul, Cedar Walton, Wood Shaw, McCoy Tyner, and Pepper Adams. Throughout his illustrious career he has been featured on over 100 recordings.
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 20. 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.
