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Dayton native gets shoutout in ‘Rolling Stone’
From Bob Underwood, Staff Writer
A band with Dayton ties gets a glowing blurb in the “Fricke’s Picks’ section of the June 11 issue of “Rolling Stone.”
Music writer David Fricke celebrates “out there” sounds, and he turned an ear to Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber, a huge, unpredictable band conducted/led by guitarist Greg Tate — who was born in Dayton and moved to Washington, D.C., when he was 13.
Cleveland native Jared Michael Nickerson began playing bass at Dayton high schools and in area talent shows.
Based in New York City, Burnt Sugar’s latest release “Making Love to the Dark Ages” is out on LiveWired Records.
The band formed in 1999 and in 2006 played the University of Dayton’s Boll Theater to conclude a week-long residency at UD and Stivers School for the Arts.
Fricke calls the band “a fleet-footed big band, sliding and swaggering through galactic R&B, brawny jazz and electric funk like a Sun Ra-size spin on Miles Davis’ On the Corner band.”
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By amy
June 15, 2009 1:18 PM | Link to this
Burnt Sugar’s electric bassist and manager Jared Michael Nickerson grew up in Dayton & started his performing career on the stages of Dayton’s high school talent show scene! His family still lives there.