From age 15 to 17, Burrage was a member of No Commercial Potential with Mark Friedrick on keyboards, Darryl Mixon on bass, and Richie Daniels on guitar.
[1] After working with Woody Shaw, he founded an avant-garde jazz group named Third Kind of Blue with Anthony Cox and John Purcell.
[1] In the 1990s, he recorded with Billy Bang, Hamiet Bluiett, Sonny Fortune, Courtney Pine, Gunther Schuller, and the World Saxophone Quartet.
[3] The Burrage Ensemble was his first band, playing primarily in New York City from 1980–1983[4] and at jazz festivals in Philadelphia, St. Louis, Boston, and Washington, D.C. Members were Kenny Kirkland, Marcus Miller, and Joe Ford.
With Ray Anderson With Hamiet Bluiett With Sonny Fortune With Joe Locke With Teruo Nakamura With Daniel Schnyder With Avery Sharpe With Jarek Smietana With Jack Walrath With World Saxophone Quartet With others