BROWNMAN's Halloween Thriller - Toronto - Michael Jackson as electric-jazz
BROWNMAN's Halloween Thriller (Toronto) - Michael Jackson as electric-jazz
SUN-OCT-28, 8pm
@ Mây Cafe | www.MayToronto.com
876 Dundas St. West, Toronto, ON M6J 1V7
$15 door, $10 advanced list
[ Email andrew@brownman.com to get on adv list ]
FB Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/253223852061707/
HALLOWEEN THRILLER 2018 :: www.Thriller.Brownman.com
Acclaimed jazz / hip-hop trumpet player BROWNMAN ALI will once again lead an all-star quartet through his popular annual Halloween Thriller concert, this year traveling to 6 cities in Ontario. The much lauded BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO + 1 will perform the entire Michael Jackson "Thriller" recording, interpreted and re-worked in the Miles Davis-esque fashion this multiple National Jazz Award winning improviser has become known for. In addition to the quartet performing Thriller from top to bottom, other MJ classics will be featured through the night for this unique Halloween Series jazz party at Toronto's May Cafe. This show is part of a 6-city concert series tour, and features as it's "+1" keyboardist NICK MACLEAN, a rising star in Toronto's jazz community and winner of a Global Music Award. Please visit www.Thriller.Brownman.com for more info on the 2018 Halloween Thriller Series.
"Delving so deeply into that record always leaves us speechless", states Ali. "Michael birthed so many incredible tunes over the years, but his collaborations with Quincy Jones on Thriller has to be one of the most towering musical achievements in pop music ever. Using that brilliant material every year on Halloween, as jump-offs for what we do makes for a party that's both danceable, but still rooted in exploratory improvising and deep reaching solos. We approach it the way Miles might have."
The BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO has won a National Jazz Award, 3 Toronto Independent Music Award (recently winning the 2016 TIMA for "Jazz Group of the Year" for the second year in a row), a SOCAN music award, a CBC Galaxie Rising Star Award, and an International Independent Music Award for "2015 Jazz-Funk album of the year" for their latest release "Gravitation", which hit number 4 on the iTunes USA jazz charts upon it's release.
“Awards are nice, naturally, but to dig what Brownman is doing, you’ve got to see him live. I had a chance to do just that over the summer when Brownman fronted his killer trio ... I came away with a blown mind. This guy’s got chops galore, soul to match, and a sense of phrasing that recalls many of the greats, but suggests itself to be his own.”
-- The Buffalo News on the latest slew of awards for the Brownman Electryc Trio
:: Brownman Ali - electric trumpet & spookiness -- www.Brownman.com
:: Nick Maclean - keyboards & ghoulishness -- www.NicholasMaclean.com
:: Sean Dennis - electric bass & creepiness -- www.Instagram.com/seanydmusic
:: Jacob Aylward - drums & ghastliness -- www.Instagram.com/jt.drums
Dress up if you like - it's Halloween!!!
Hear the BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO at:
Videos of BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO live:
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFECA3E452FE2BC0D
2018 HALLOWEEN THRILLER TOUR SERIES
6 shows, 6 cities, 6 Halloween parties!
Fri-Oct-26, 7pm in Cobourg @ Cobourg Collegiate Institute's GREAT HALL
Sat-Oct-27, 9pm in Markham @ Go For Tea
Sun-Oct-28, 8pm in Toronto @ May Cafe
Mon-Oct-29, 7pm in Hamilton @ Artword Artbar
Tue-Oct-30, 8pm in St Catharines @ Warehouse Concert Hall
Wed-Oct-31, 8pm in Kitchener @ KW Boathouse
ABOUT BROWNMAN | www.Brownman.com
Heralded as “Canada’s preeminent Jazz trumpeter” by NYC’s Village Voice, Brownman Ali - born on the small Caribbean island of Trinidad, & schooled in NYC - is a multiple award-winning NYC-schooled protégé to his teacher, Grammy-winning trumpet legend, Randy Brecker. Splitting his time between Toronto and New York, he tirelessly leads 7 unique ensembles of his own including the internationally acclaimed Miles Davis influenced BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO, and the award-winning CRUZAO latin-jazz quintet. All these ensembles record under Brownman's own much lauded BROWNTASAURAS RECORDS label, established in 2009. In high demand in the studio world with over 300 CD appearances to date, Brownman delivers stylistically authentic horn playing over a wide range of styles from bebop to hiphop having worked with the likes of Guru's Jazzmatazz (replacing Donald Byrd in that primordial ensemble), Mos Def, KRS-1, Quincy Jones, Paul Simon, Jay-z, Missy Elliot, Mingus Dynasty Big Band, Gary Bartz, Chucho Valdes & far too many more to name here. He is considered to be one of the most unique and provocative improvising trumpet players in the nation today and is widely regarded as a vanguard for the evolution of Jazz in Canada.
"One of the next great voices in the new generation of jazz improvisers”
-- Randy Brecker
AWARDS & ACCOLADES
A highly decorated player, his awards & accolades include :
-- 2 National Jazz Awards (with 11 nominations over the years)
-- Montreal Jazz Fest's "Grand Prix Du Jazz" award
-- a CBC Galaxie Rising Star award
-- a SOCAN composers award
-- an International Independent Music Award for "Album of the Year"
-- 3 Toronto Independent Music Award "jazz artist of the year" (8 nominations)
-- a Black Canadian Award nomination for "Jazz Musician of the Year"
-- an induction into the WHO'S WHO IN BLACK CANADA
-- a Caribbean Music & Entertainment nomination for "Jazz Artist of the Year"
-- a BRAVO! channel documentary on his life
-- NOW magazine naming him "Toronto's Best Jazz Musician"
-- CBC Radio Canada named him "one of the most recorded trumpet players in Canadian history"
-- NPR in New York calls him "the new standard in electric jazz"
-- the Trinidad & Tobago Consulate General awarded him with a citation for being a "Distinguished National of Trinidad"
-- was once listed by Air Canada's in-flight magazine as "One of the Top 10 reasons to visit Toronto".
