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Burnt Sugar and Butch Morris – The Rites
Label: Avant Groidd Musica
Format: CD
Country: US
Released: 2003
Genre: Jazz
Style: Contemporary Jazz, Free Jazz, Free Improvisation
The Rites
1-Intro 0:35
2-What Stravinsky? 3:46
3-The Brahmsian? 5:56
4-The Russian? 5:11
5-Liturgical? 6:21
6-The Neoclassicist? 1:03
7-Or The Jazz Stravinsky? 11:34
8-Sky Porch 17:00
CREDITS
Bass – Melvin Gibbs
Cello – Okkyung Lee
Conductor [Conduction] – Lawrence Butch Morris*
Double Bass – Jason Di Matteo*
Drums – Qasim Naqvi, Trevor Holder
Electronics [Electrovox] – Latasha Nevada Diggs*
Flute – Satch Hoyt
Guitar – James Lee (12), Morgan Craft, Pete Cosey, Rene Akan
Organ [Farfisa/M1] – Bruce Mack (3)
Piano – Vijay Iyer
Turntables, Tape [Tapes], Effects – DJ Mutamassik*
Violin – Mazz Swift
Voice – Justice Dilla-X*, Lisala Beatty
Recorded @ The Fifth House, Brooklyn, October 8, 2002
cat.no. agdd 0301 from spine, cat.no. agdd 3031 from disk
label name variation: cover/disk have the label as "Avantgroid"
DowntownMusicGallery Aug 29, 2021
Third fantastic release from Greg Tate's incredible fifteen piece jazz/funk/rock ensemble, this Burnt Sugar special project involves Lawrence Butch Morris' "conduction", inspired by Stravinsky's classic "Rites of Spring", of an ensemble featuring very special guests Pete Cosey (Miles' main guitar wailer on 'Agartha' & 'Pangea') and electric bass god Melvin Gibbs, along with Rene Akan, Morgan Craft, James Lee, Jason Di Matteo, Mazz Swift, Okkyung Lee, Lisala Beatty, Justice Dilla-X, Qasim Naqvi, Trevor Holder, Lewis Flip Barnes, Satch Hoyt, and Latasha Nevada Diggs. Over the past couple of years and since his long stay teaching in Turkey, Butch Morris has been working closely with his own moderate sized ensemble, as well as this great local sensation called Burnt Sugar. Butch is an incredible conductor and has really refined both of these ensembles which overlap with a few players and their recent residencies at the Bowery Poetry Club, Tonic, the Knit and Joe's Pub, just keep getting better and better. 'The Rites' swirls with immense waves, an inner fire and free-flowing yet magically connected subliminal spirits. There are layers of interconnected lines which seem free at first, yet Butch's control or vision gives this a unique clarity. There are quotes from Stravinsky's classic piece which float through and occasionally punctuate things in a few sections. That familiar opening phrase from 'The Rites of Spring' get a sensuous, bluesy vibe in one section, almost as if Jimi Hendrix were jamming with the Gil Evans Orchestra. For those of you that need that lead guitar fix, Cosey doesn't kick in until section seven of the eight tracks. And he does kick in hard here, it sure do feel so good too! In any case, 'The Rites' works just right from beginning to the end as one motherf***ing sublime feast for the senses. - Bruce Lee Gallanter, DMG