Saxophonist, educator, and organizer Ras Moshe Burnett is a Brooklyn NY native and recent graduate of a SUNY degree program in music studies at Empire State College.
He is the organizer of the “Music Now!” series formed in 1999 and a member of the Neues Kabarett collective, both at The Brecht Forum in NYC.
The “Music Now” panel discussions and presentations of free jazz and new music have continued to take place at The Brooklyn Commons since 2011 and also serve as a platform for political education.
He initiated the first in a series of “Jazz and Self Determination” panel discussions at The Left Forum in 2018, contributed materials to the “Lost Jazz Shrines of Brooklyn” exhibit at Weeksville Heritage Center, and lectured about Jazz and social movements at The Boston Museum of Fine Arts and Brecht Forum.