Tuesday Night Jazz at the Church proudly presents the BROWNMAN AKOUSTIC 4-TET in a special concert (and workshop) celebrating the life and work of Miles Davis!
A New York-based trumpet sensation, Brownman has performed with the likes of Paul Simon, Quincy Jones, Chucho Valdes, and more!
"One of the next great voices in the new generation of jazz improvisers," says Randy Brecker, the legendary 14-time Grammy-winning trumpet icon.
Featuring:
Brownman Ali - trumpet
Brent Jarvis - piano
Ken Lister - bass
Kelby MacNayr - drums
Date: Tuesday, May 7th, 2024
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: James Bay United Church, 511 Michigan St.
Admission is by donation, with a suggested contribution of $20.
Browman Ali Plays Miles David -- 1944 to 1969
7:00 PM: A special Victoria, BC permutation of the BROWNMAN AKOUSTIC 4-TET will take the stage, led by Brownman Ali on trumpet. He has handpicked tunes made famous by Miles between 1944 and 1969. You'll hear samplings of Miles' tenure with Charlie Parker, tunes from his time on the Prestige label with the 1st Great Quintet, through to Kind of Blue, and onward into the 2nd Great Quintet. "We'd need a whole week to get through all the various incredible twists and turns of Miles' long career, so tonight we're just going to focus on this 20-ish year segment," states Ali.
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SPECIAL EVENT!
"Internationally acclaimed jazz trumpet playing iconoclast BROWNMAN ALI will give a talk on the life of the ubiquitous MILES DAVIS followed by a concert focusing on Miles' work from 1944 to 1969.
The LIFE OF MILES -- by Brownman Ali
5:00 PM: In this 1.5-hour lecture, Brownman will take you on a journey through the extraordinary career of the great Miles Davis from his early years in St. Louis in the 40s dreaming about playing with Charlie Parker, right up to his death in 1991, with audio samples indicative of each of the many times Miles changed direction—and had the world follow.
Time: 5:00- 6:30 PM
Location: James Bay United Church, 511 Michigan St.
Admission is by donation, with a suggested contribution of $10-20.
About BROWNMAN ALI
"One of the next great voices in the new generation of jazz improvisers,” says Randy Brecker, the legendary 14-time Grammy-winning trumpet icon.
A recent 2024 JUNO Award nominee and 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. Now splitting his time between Brooklyn, NY, and Toronto, ON, he tirelessly leads 8 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 Brooklyn. 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 hip-hop, 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 Elliott, Mingus Dynasty Big Band, Gary Bartz, Chucho Valdes, and 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.
A highly decorated player, Brownman's awards & accolades include a recent JUNO Award nomination for "Jazz Album Of The Year," 2 National Jazz Awards (with 11 nominations over the years), 10 Global Music Awards, the 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," Toronto Independent Music Award for "jazz artist of the year" (13 nominations & 7 TIMAs in total), a Black Canadian Award nomination for "Jazz Musician of the Year," a Black IMPACT Award for "Artist of the Year," a Caribbean Arts & Entertainment Award nomination for "Jazz Artist of the Year," an induction into the WHO'S WHO IN BLACK CANADA, 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," and he was once listed by Air Canada's In-Flight magazine as "one of the Top 10 reasons to visit Toronto."
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Masks are optional at the well-ventilated, spacious, and acoustically excellent sanctuary of James Bay United Church.
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