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Feb 2007 Bookings/Gig Schedule
Date
Time
Band
Idiom
Venue
City
Sun
Feb 11
2007
10:00pm
Sitting in with
SERAFIN
Torch singer
extraordinaire
Rivoli
334 Queen St. W.
Toronto
Wed
Feb 14
2007
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Valentine's Day
2 seating:
7:00pm
to
8:00pm
--
9:00pm
to
10:00pm
The Laurencian Room proudly presents:
A special VALENTINE'S DAY presentation:
BROWNMAN LOVE TRIO

featuring
Brownman (trumpet)
Dustin Shaskin (bass)
Scott Metcalfe (piano)
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from press release:
Nationally acclaimed Trinidadian born, NYC schooled jazz trumpet player Nick "Brownman" Ali comes to Toronto's Laurentian room for 2 sets of the most romantic of jazz horn work in the city. In the spirit of Miles Davis and Chet Baker, this unique Valentine's Day only presentation of the "Love Trio" will perform a special repertoire of classic jazz love standards such as Cole Porter's "I love you" and Duke Ellington's "Sentimental Mood". A Valentine's Day to remember for you and yours. "
Jazz
Love Songs
Laurentian
Room
Info:
416-925-8680
(MAP)
51A Winchester St.
Toronto
Fri
Feb 16
2007
doors
9:00pm
--
show
10:00pm to
11:00pm
NU JAZZ hosted by Jaymz Bee from JAZZ.FM91
presents:
BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO

featuring
Brownman - electric trumpet
Tyler Emond - 5-string electric bass
Paul DeLong - drums
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WE'RE FILIMING A
LIVE CONCERT DVD!!!
COME OUT AND BE PART OF IT!!
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JazzOnline writes: 
"Nick "Brownman" Ali's powerful trio captures the essence of the later years in Miles Davis' life, his electric period, without imitation. Brownman's ELECTRYC TRIO is uniquely his own, yet echoes with the sounds of ‘Bitches Brew’ and ‘In a Silent Way’ right down to Miles’ use of electronics while still managing to stay grounded in the sounds of today, clearly paying apt tribute to Brownman's NYC mentor Randy Brecker. Impressive."
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Gladstone event info
Modern Electric
Groove Jazz
Gladstone
Hotel
Ballroom
Info:
416-531-4635
(MAP)

$10 door
1214 Queen St. W
(just E of Dufferin)
Toronto
Sat
Feb 17
2007
1 hour set
between
5:00pm
and
7:00pm
In support of Black History Month
The Downtown Grapevine presents:
BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO

featuring
Brownman - electric trumpet
Tyler Emond - 5-string electric bass
Colin Kingsmore - drums
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JazzOnline writes: 
"Nick "Brownman" Ali's powerful trio captures the essence of the later years in Miles Davis' life, his electric period, without imitation. Brownman's ELECTRYC TRIO is uniquely his own, yet echoes with the sounds of ‘Bitches Brew’ and ‘In a Silent Way’ right down to Miles’ use of electronics while still managing to stay grounded in the sounds of today, clearly paying apt tribute to Brownman's NYC mentor Randy Brecker. Impressive."
Modern Electric
Groove Jazz
Bravo Room
Much Music
299 Queen St W.
Toronto
Thrs
Feb 22
2007
9:30pm
ComPosition Arts presents 
The LIVE WIRE weekly series, this week featuring:
ALI BROS
See the poster
featuring
Marcus Ali - saxohones
Brownman Ali - trumpets
Marc Rogers Ali - 6-string electric bass
Colin Kingsmore Ali - drums
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JazzOnline writes: 
The Ali Bros embody the essence of jazz improvisational ideology erupting against a backdrop of powerful urban grooves.  Funk, hip-hop, drum'n'bass, R'n'B all colliding with modern jazz textures.  Their uncanny musical relationship enhanced by blood, Brownman and Marcus Ali together form an incredibly synergetic, almost telepathic bond making them one of the most called upon horn men in the city. They have appeared side by side in countless horn sections in the Canadian professional music scene most nobably as the backbone to the multi-award winning latin-jazz ensemble CRUZAO.
Aggressive
urban-jazz grooves
--
Blazing horn-lines
--
Introspective funk
Trane Studio
Info:
416-913-8197
(MAP)
$7 adv by email

$10 door
964 Bathurst St.
(N. of Bloor at Follis)
Toronto
Fri
Feb 23
2007
10:30pm
Buffalo's Allan St. Hardware Cafe presents:
BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO
See the poster
featuring
Brownman - electric trumpet
Tyler Emond - 6-string electric bass
Aaron Staebell - drums
--
JazzOnline writes: 
"Nick "Brownman" Ali's powerful trio captures the essence of the later years in Miles Davis' life, his electric period, without imitation. Brownman's ELECTRYC TRIO is uniquely his own, yet echoes with the sounds of ‘Bitches Brew’ and ‘In a Silent Way’ right down to Miles’ use of electronics while still managing to stay grounded in the sounds of today, clearly paying apt tribute to Brownman's NYC mentor Randy Brecker. Impressive."
Modern Electric
Groove Jazz
Allen Street
Hardware Cafe
Info:
716-882-8843
(MAP)
FREE!!
245 Allen St.
Buffalo,
New York
Sat
Feb 24
2007
8:00pm
Manhattan's in Guelph presents
RBR

Restivo, Brown, Ross
feat.
Dave Restivo (piano)
Brownman (trumpet)
Ross MacIntyre (bass)
--
From press release:
"Three of Canada's most acclaimed jazz musicians team up in Guleph's Manhattan's jazz club for an evening of New York City style mainstream jazz."
SEE POSTER
Mainstream
Jazz
Manhattans
Info:
519-767-2440
(MAP)
951 Gordon St.
Guelph

 
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BIG UPCOMING GIGS
(by publicist Andrew McIntosh) :
Jan to Mar will see Brown focused heavily on recording

sessions and not performing live as much as in the summer.

He is currently locked in
studio with the following artists:
Professor D (hip-hop)
Third Word (hip-hop)
Rikoshay (hip-hop)
Jason Wilson (progressive reggae)
CRUZAO (latin-jazz-urbania)
Chiva (Colombian latin-jazz)



Brownman leaves March 26 to tour with legendary rapper GURU of Gangstarr & Jazzmatazz fame.  He'll be on tour all of Apr. '07 throughout the U.S.A.
Tentative city tour dates:
Tue-Mar-27 New York, NY
Wed-Mar-28 Philadelphia, PA
Thu-Mar-29 off
Fri-Mar-30 Baltimore, MD
Sat-Mar-31 Pittsburgh, PA
Sun-Apr-01 Toronto, ON, Canada
Mon-Apr-02 Cleveland, OH 
Tue-Apr-03 off
Wed-Apr-04 Chicago, IL
Thu-Apr-05 Minneapolis, MN
Fri-Apr-06 Kansas City, MO 
Sat-Apr-07 Denver, CO 
Sun-Apr-08 Aspen, CO or Park City, UT
Mon-Apr-09 off
Tue-Apr-10 Vancouver, BC, Canada
Wed-Apr-11 Seattle, WA
Thu-Apr-12 Portland, OR
Fri-Apr-13 Humbolt or Chica, CA 
Sat-Apr-14 San Francisco, CA
Sun-Apr-15 Los Angeles, CA 
Mon-Apr-16 Orange Country or San Diego, CA
Tue-Apr-17 off
Wed-Apr-18 off
Thu-Apr-19 Dallas or Austin, TX
Fri-Apr-20 Little Rock, AR or Houston, TX
Sat-Apr-21 New Orleans or Atlanta, GA
Sun-Apr-22 Atlanta, GA
Mon-Apr-23 off
Tue-Apr-24 North Carolina
Wed-Apr-25 off
Thu-Apr-26 Washington, DC
Fri-Apr-27 New Jersey, NY
Sat-Apr-28 Boston, MA


BROWN NEWS
(by publicist Andrew McIntosh) :
Brownman was recently nominated for a 2006 Canadian National Jazz Award for "Latin-jazz Artist of the Year".  The prize was awarded to the luminous and deserving Hilario Duran, but we at Brownman Music Inc. would like to thank all those who voted for this dynamic performer!

Shortly after returning from the last South American tour in Jan '06, the BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO began a new jazz residency at Buffalo's ultra hip Allen St. Hardware Cafe... this residency will continue through summer and all of upstate NY is invited to join the party! 
http://ElectrycTrio.brownman.com

No longer able to deny the undeniable - Brownman Music now has a MySpace.com page. There are 4 tunes and some video from CRUZAO is currently loaded (though they will be on weekly rotation), pics, and a ton more.  Feel free to drop in and make Brown your MySpace friend.
http://www.MySpace.com/BrownmanMusic

The AUDIO/VIDEO section at Brownman.com now has new audio up - as well as a 2 minute movie trailer from film maker Vitold Vidic's Documentary "CRUZAO: The Movie" which first aired at the 2005 Toronto film festival and documents the trials and tribulations of Brownman's struggle to get CRUZAO GRUPO MONSTRUOSO - the 15-man version of CRUZAO - prepped for it's inaugural performance at the 2004 Distillery Jazz Festival with the clocking ticking down and problems mounting. http://Brownman.com/pages-AudVid.htm  (Under VIDEO)

Brownman recently appointed to the Prague Jazz Open Festival's Board of Artistic Directors where his knowledge and expertise will aid in shaping the vision of the festival's 2006/2007 programming.
http://www.praguejazzopen.cz

Brownman toured ARGENTINA for 3 weeks - beginning with the Buenos Aires Jazz Festival and includes feature concert presentations with some of Argentina's finest jazz and tango artists!  May 21 to June 15 2006 - arriving back in Toronto just in time to perform 8 times for the Toronto Jazz Festival.  More Argentine info as it comes in...

Collaborations seems to be the name of the game in 2006 and we'd like to mention some of those fantastic groups that have featured Brown in recent months: IRAKERE, CHISPA Y LOS COMPLICES, TUMBAO INC., DUB TRINITY, KUSH, FERTILE GROUND, SOULIVE, KOBOTOWN, KELLY LEE EVANS, MR. SOMETHING SOMETHING, METHODOLOGY, JAH-B, MAPALE, CHIVA, RITA DI GHENT & The SPRAWL PROJECT, AVE RD. & CESCO. All are world-class ensembles and we encourage those reading this to put their names into Google and check out their artistry.


OLDER BROWN NEWS
(by publicist Andrew McIntosh) :
Brownman voted Toronto's 2005 BEST JAZZ ARTIST by NOW Magazine:

http://brownman.com/PressReleases/NowAward-Oct27-2005_v13.PDF

Errol Nazereth's feature article on FIVE WEEKS FOR MILES:
http://Brownman.com/Interviews/Eye-Sept2005/StyleForMiles.html

ALI BROS "mythological" Canada Day performance:
http://Brownman.com/Interviews/2005-08-FilmFest/Mythology.html

Interview with View Magazine (in depth)
http://Brownman.com/Interviews/ViewMag-Mar2005/VIEW-Gruv-Mar24to30-2005.htm


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