Subject: Week 3 - FIVE WEEKS FOR MILES - Fri Oct 15 Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 09:09:22 -0400 From: The BROWNMAN Organization: Brownman Music Inc. -- http://www.brownman.com To: Brownman's Big Ass Mailing List Hey guys, And a big welcome to all who are new on the Big Ass Mailing List... particularly all those new Germans and Baltic Sea folks whom I FINALLY got around to adding to the database... sorry for the delay gang - miss it over there - how's everyone on that side of the ocean? Those with digital pictures, pleeeeease send 'em! So down to business - this Friday is the Week 3 performance of my FIVE WEEKS FOR MILES series at the Trane Studio in Toronto. It will feature my personal favourite era of Miles' life - the years with tenor sax visionary Wayne Shorter. Since the primordial boxset "The Complete Live At The Plugged Nickel 1964" so throughly encapsulates what that - the second of the great Miles Quintets (the first being with John Coltrane) - on that friday the band will play the same tunes from 2 of the sets on that box set. I've been listening those 8 CDs non-stop for the last month and really have to say that this, for me, is one of the most creative periods of not only Miles' life - but of jazz as a whole. The amount of reaching, searching & exploration these 5 men undergo together is staggered... Miles and Wayne lead the world's tightest rhythm section through bouts of frenetic hard-bop to lyrical haunting melodies right through to tonal painting avant-garde textures. We promise to do our best to give you some of that same spirit this friday. Please come check it out. =========================================================== FIVE WEEKS FOR MILES - Every Friday in Oct @ Trane Studio, 964 Bathurst St., Toronto 416-913-8197 http://www.brownman.com/PressReleases/FiveWeeksForMiles.html =========================================================== For 5 Fridays in Oct, I'll lead 5 different all-star ensembles through 5 historic eras of jazz which Miles Davis catalyzed & immortalized with his presence. The very detailed press release (link above) has alllll kinds of info about this event - times, ticket prices, who's performing (some of Canada's top-shelf jazz musicians - and each week is a different band), and a little synopsis about each night and what that era was in the Miles historic time-line. Please check it out. Paying tribute to the greatest icon in jazz history is no small task and I hope you'll come check out the artistry of these assorted killer ensembles. ---------------------------- Week 3 - Oct 15, 2004 - 9:00pm "Plugged Nickel" - The Shorter Years... Two quintets in particular featuring 2 tenor saxophone giants dominated Miles' musical life almost exclusively from the mid 50's, right up until the 70's, one featuring John Coltrane and the other featuring Wayne Shorter. This period would feature an assortment of quintets and sextets all pushing the boundaries of improvisation within a simple modal framework, but the two teamings that would leave the world breathless would be those of Coltrane and Shorter. Of those two teamings it would be the Miles-Shorter pairing that would result in some of the most explosively creative & exploratory jazz in Miles' history. "Live at the Plugged Nickel" (Columbia / Legacy '65) continues to be a paramount recording in the great Miles lineage and considered by many to be some of the most ground-breaking jazz in history. Nick "Brownman" Ali - trumpet Shawn Nyquist - tenor sax Adrean Farrugia - piano Michael Herring - upright bass Joe Poole - drums =========================================================== UPCOMING =========================================================== Fri Oct 15, 9pm - WEEK 3 (Miles Series) - "Plugged Nickel" @ Trane Fri Oct 22, 9pm - WEEK 4 (Miles Series) - "Electric Miles" @ Trane Sun Oct 24, 1-4pm - NICK ALI TRIO Jazz Brunch @ Revival Sun Oct 24, 6pm - TABARRUK & ALPHA BLONDIE @ Kool Haus Fri Oct 29, 9pm - WEEK 5 (Miles Series) - "Had He Lived..." @ Trane Sat Oct 30, 1-5pm - JAZZ FOR HERBIE @ The Rex (fantastic fundraiser) Thr Nov 04, 9pm - BROWNMAN & The ELECTRYC TRIO @ Trane Studio Tue Nov 09, 9pm - NICK ALI TRIO hosts the Jazz Jam @ The Rex Thr Nov 11, 9pm - BROWNMAN & The ELECTRYC TRIO @ Trane Studio Sat Nov 13, 7pm - RITA DI GHENT & SPRAWL INDIGO @ Heritage Theatre Thr Nov 18, 9pm - BROWNMAN & The ELECTRYC TRIO @ Trane Studio Fri Nov 19, noon - GRUVASYLUM concert/workshop @ Glenhaven Senior Thr Nov 25, 9pm - BROWNMAN & The ELECTRYC TRIO @ Trane Studio Dec 13-20 - CRUZAO represents Canada @ HAVANA JAZZ FESTIVAL, Cuba! Who wants to go? Email me for more info on how you can attend this year's Havana Jazz Fest with CRUZAO... Jan - CRUZAO's SECOND CD! Recording begins... Jan - CRUZAO double-header @ the Rex feat. new material!! =========================================================== A'ight... I'm out. Peace. - Brown ---- If there's a heaven, they must have one hell of a big band... ---- brownman@brownman.com 416-738-9449 (24 hr number - leave message and I'll be paged) The BrownZone : http://www.brownman.com Gig Schedule : http://www.brownman.com/GigSchedule.htm