The Quintet: JAZZ AT MASSEY HALL, which celebrates it’s 70th anniversary this year, was the one and only time each of the performers (Parker, Gillespie, Powell, Mingus, Roach -- all seminal to the creation of bebop) would ever play together, making this recording a truly landmark jazz occurrence. In deep tribute to that masterpiece recording, internationally acclaimed multi-award winning trumpet player & jazz iconoclast BROWNMAN ALI, accompanied by a sensational cast of some of Toronto's jazz elite -- including 22-year old alto phenom JAMES GRIFFITH, JUNO winning bass master MIKE DOWNES, JUNO nominated in-demand drummer ETHAN ARDELLI & 10x Global Music Award winner NICK MACLEAN -- will perform the entire album's set list from top to bottom, before highlighting other Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie bebop classics from the same era.

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@ CONTXT, 254 Lansdowne Ave., Toronto

Tickets: www.checkout.square.site/buy/VBJXBPHSJI26Q222F2OA4WKD

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:: Brownman Ali -- trumpet (National Jazz Award)

:: James Griffith -- alto (22-year old phenom)

:: Nick Maclean -- piano (Global Music Award)

:: Mike Downes -- upright bass (JUNO Award)

:: Frank Botos -- drums (in for Ethan Ardelli)

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$25 Advance

$40 Door

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6:30pm -- doors

7:15pm -- Brownman talks about JAZZ AT MASSEY HALL

7:30pm -- Set 1: the entire album is performed

9:00pm -- Set 2: similarly spirited Bird & Dizzy tunes

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Presented by:

Caliban Arts Theatre | www.CalibanArtsTheatre.com

Browntasauras Records | www.Browntasauras.co