Grammy Award-winning tenor saxophonist Wayne Escoffery began his professional career touring and recording with the Eric Reed Septet. In 2001, he joined the Lonnie Plaxico Group and Abdullah Ibrahim’s Ekaya and became a member of the Mingus Dynasty, the Mingus Orchestra, and the Grammy Award-winning Mingus Big Band. In 2004, he joined Ben Riley’s Monk Legacy Septet, an innovative piano-less group dedicated to carrying on the legacy of jazz great Thelonious Monk. Around that time, he toured with Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Music of the Masters, two groups of musicians hand-picked by Wynton Marsalis to perform the music of Dexter Gordon and Miles Davis.

 

 

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.

 

 

Drums: Ronnie Burrage 
Sax: Wayne Escoffery 
Sax: Mark Zhu
Bass: Kim Clarke 
Piano: Chuangye Liu