Ronnie Burrage

Ronnie Burrage is based in New York and has been active on the international jazz scene for more than 40 years. At age 18 he moved from his hometown St. Louis to New York where he started his career with McCoy Tyner. Since then Ronnie has played, toured, and recorded with a plethora of jazz's greatest artists such as; Wayne Shorter, Joe Zawinul, Jaco Pastorius, Frank Morgan, Sonny Fortune, Michael Brecker, Archie Shepp, Sonny Rollins, Pat Metheny, Bobbie Hutcherson, Jackie McLean, Kenny Kirkland, Richard Davis, Woody Shaw, Hamiet Bluiett, Sir Roland Hanna, David Murray, John Purcell, Anthony Cox, Pepper Adams, Jack Walrath, Gary Bartz, Abdullah Ibrahim/Dollar Brand, Sonny Fortune, The Sun Ra Arkestra, The World Saxophone Quartet, Dianne Reeves, Wallace Roney, Toots Thieleman, and many more. Burrage is a Professor of Fine Arts, he's taught at The Hochschule in Berlin, the University of the Arts Philadelphia, The New School NYC, The Pennsylvania State University, currently at CUNY Brooklyn College and SUNY Old Westbury College. The course curriculum created by Professor Burrage includes; Hip Hop Music & Culture, Music of Global Cultures, curricula adapted are History of Jazz, African American Music, and Music of the World's Peoples. He also teaches the Small Jazz Ensemble at Brooklyn College.

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