Kind Turk Burton

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Art "Turk" Burton (actually Arthur Theodore Burton ; * 1949 in Chicago ) is an American jazz musician ( Conga , Djembé , Shékere ), band leader and author .

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Burton, whose family came from Oklahoma on his mother 's side and from the Mississippi Delta on his father's side , grew up in Phoenix (llinois) , on the outskirts of Chicago; in Oklahoma he finished his education. Early musical role models were Cándido Camero , Mongo Santamaría , Art Blakey and Ray Barretto . As a teenager, he took part in a talent competition with his band in the mid-1960s, in which the Jackson Five also participated and won. In 1969, Burton won the Illinois State Battle of the Bands with the formation Soul Naturals . After the band broke up - many members were drafted for military service in the Vietnam War - Burton continued to work as a musician, but turned away from R&B and Motown- inspired pop music to jazz and African-American music ; During this time he had lessons from Philip Chran and Avreeayl Ra .

Through Rahsaan Roland Kirk , Burton finally got into the circle of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) in the early 1970s , of which he became a member in 1973, and played in this environment in Chicago with boxer and drummer Chinelo "Chi" Amen -Ra, also with Muhal Richard Abrams ' big band (in which he replaced Don Moye ), Kelan Cochran, Odell Brown , Henry Gibson (drummer for Curtis Mayfield ), Chaka Khan and later members of Earth, Wind & Fire . He also studied drums at Governor's State University.

From the early 1980s he founded the Burton Congo Square Artistic Ensemble ; from the mid-1990s he worked a. a. also with Vandy Harris, Jr. & The Front Burners, with whom he made recordings ( Pure Fire , 1996), also with Ari Brown ( Venus , Delmark , 1998) and in the following decade with Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble ( Hope, Future and Destiny , 2004). In the field of jazz he was involved in five recording sessions between 1998 and 2009. In 2009 he performed with the AACM Great Black Music Ensemble (including George Lewis , Nicole Mitchell, Mwata Bowden , Ernest Dawkins ) at the Umbria Jazz Festival. As part of various AACM events such as the Original Art Series , he gave concerts with Dee Alexander and Ann Ward as well as with his Congo Square Ensemble , with whom he presented an album in 2015, which u. a. contains a version of John Coltrane's A Love Supreme . In the course of its existence, Vincent Carter (soprano and tenor saxophone), Mwata Bowden (baritone saxophone), Douglas Ewart (alto saxophone), Theodis Rodgers junior (piano), Donald Rafael Garrett and Harrison Bankhead (bass) as well as Reggie Nicholson ( Drums). Burton also wrote Black, Red, and Deadly and Black, Buckskin, and Blue , an African American tale of the Wild West.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b George E. Lewis: A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music. 2008, p. 310.
  2. ^ Billboard, October 25, 1980
  3. ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed March 21, 2016)
  4. ↑ Carol banks Weber: Art 'Turk' Burton and Congo Square conjure 'Spirits: Then and Now'
personal data
SURNAME Burton, Art Turk
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Burton, Arthur Theodore
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago