Black Sex Yall Liberation & Bloody Random Violets cover

Black Sex Yall Liberation & Bloody Random Violets

Released

More than two hours of music spread across two CDs, this is Burnt Sugar’s most guitar-heavy (even metallic at times) release. The nods to their inspirations are explicit; they jam out on a 15-minute version of Miles Davis’s “Mtume” from Get Up With It, then transform Max Roach and Abbey Lincoln’s “Driva Man/Freedom Day” into a thrash jazz primal scream via drum ’n’ bass breaks and punk-blues guitar. Still later, their improv take on Stravinsky’s Rite Of Spring gets an illbient DJ remix, while the half-hour “No Direction Home” lays a mantra-like jazz melody (with stinging lead violin) over a boogie bass line.

Phil Freeman

Suggestions
Fanatics cover

Fanatics

Jeff Parker, Matt Mayhall, Chris Speed
Go In Numbers cover

Go In Numbers

Wadada Leo Smith, New Dalta Ahkri
Moving Cities cover

Moving Cities

Makaya McCraven, Antoine Berjeaut
Where Have I Known You Before cover

Where Have I Known You Before

Return to Forever, Chick Corea
Perfection cover

Perfection

Murray, Allen & Carrington Power Trio
Largo cover

Largo

Brad Mehldau
Blackdance cover

Blackdance

Klaus Schulze
Eye of I cover

Eye of I

James Brandon Lewis
3+3 cover

3+3

Tomeka Reid
Naked City cover

Naked City

John Zorn, Naked City