March 2009 Gig Schedule

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**March 2009 Bookings/Gig Schedule**
Date	Time	Band	Idiom	Venue	City
Tues. Mar 03 2009	5-7pm	Toronto's intimate Gate 403 presents JOSH GOODMAN & BROWNMAN DUO featuring Brownman - trumpet Josh Goodman - piano -- NOW magazine writes: "Two of the city's original jazz voices join forces for a cocktail hour session of intimate jazz"	Jazz	Gate 403 FREE!!	403 Roncessvalles Toronto
Fri. Mar 06 2009	10:00pm	Wroclaw Jazz Festival, POLAND with NYC hip-hop legend (of Gangstarr fame) GURU's JAZZMATAZZ Legendary rapper of Gangstarr fame & his Jazzmatazz crew featuring Guru - vox Solar - producer DJ DooWop - turntables Brownman - trumpet David Scott - keys / guitar	Jazz Hip-hop	JAZZ ON THE ODRA RIVER Festival Club XO	Wroclaw, Poland
Sat. Mar 07 2009	10:00pm	Wroclaw Jazz Festival, POLAND with Polish funksters KASIUK & The FUNKY HORNS feat. Brownman "A Tribute to Tower of Power" featuring Joanna "Asia" Kwasnik - voc Tomek 'Kasiuk' Kasiukiewicz- trombone, arrangements Andrzej Biskupski - lead trumpet Robert Kamalski - alto sax Piotr Baron - tenor sax Igor Pietraszewski - bari sax Marcin Lutrosinski - piano Piotr Kaluta - guitar Piotr Nosal - bass Dariusz Kaliszuk - drums Marta Raczak, Paulina Lulek, Jacek Zamecki - backup vocals	Soul-funk	JAZZ ON THE ODRA RIVER Festival Impart Art Center stage	Wroclaw, Poland
Tues. Mar 10 2009	noon-2pm	740AM Radio (Toronto) presents PAVLO From Press Release: "Known widely as "the Greek God Of Guitar", the 38-year-old musician from Toronto, who plays a blend of latin and Greek folk music he calls "Mediterranean," From Mariposa Folk Festival: When you see Pavlo on stage, you get a dazzling show of guitar wizardry and a mix of instruments which produce a fascinating blend of Mediterranean, flamenco and latin sounds"	Mediterranean music	AM740 (live radio broadcast)	Toronto, Canada
Fri. Mar 13 2009	10:30pm	740Am Toronto presents BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO featuring Brownman - electric trumpet Rodney Appleby - 6-string electric bass Aaron Staebell - drums -- JazzOnline writes: "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 -- 2007 Canadian National Jazz Award winner for "Electric Jazz Group of the Year"	Allen Street Hardware Cafe Info: 716-882-8843 (MAP) FREE!!	245 Allen St. Buffalo, New York
Sun. Mar 15 2009 - to - Wed. Mar 18 2009	all day	Assorted Recording Sessions (client has asked to keep all studio recording information confidential at this time)	Recording Sessions	undisclosed at client's request	Quebec City, Quebec
Thurs. Mar 19 2009	Doors & dinner 6:00pm ---- Show 8:00pm	Toronto's Trane Studio presents MAX SENITT Y SU AMIGOS w/ special guest Brownman - trumpet featuring Max Senitt - drums Dustin Shaskin - bass Jacek Karlowski - guitar Mike Wark - saxophone -- From press release: "Much in demand in Toronto as a specialist on latin-jazz drumset, Max Senitt brings his energized young band to Toronto's Trane studio with special guest Trinidadian-born trumpeter Brownman in tow"	Modern Latin-jazz Trio	Trane Studio Info: 416-913-8197 (MAP) $10 at door ---- $5 students w/ ID	964 Bathurst St. (N. of Bloor at Follis) Toronto
Sat. Mar 21 2009	8:00pm	740AM Radio (Toronto) presents PAVLO From Press Release: "Known widely as "the Greek God Of Guitar", the 38-year-old musician from Toronto, who plays a blend of latin and Greek folk music he calls "Mediterranean," From Mariposa Folk Festival: When you see Pavlo on stage, you get a dazzling show of guitar wizardry and a mix of instruments which produce a fascinating blend of Mediterranean, flamenco and latin sounds"	Mediterranean music	Hamilton Place $59.50 --or-- $49.50 depending on seating Buy Tickets (click above link for Ticketmaster tickets and info)	50 Main S. W., Hamilton
Wed. Mar 25 2009 - to - Mon. Apr 13 2009	10:00pm most nights	EUROPEAN TOUR DATES with NYC hip-hop legend (of Gangstarr fame) GURU's JAZZMATAZZ Legendary rapper of Gangstarr fame & his Jazzmatazz crew feat. Guru, Solar, DJ DooWop, Brownman & David Scott ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GURU'S JAZZMATAZZ in Europe - start ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wed-Mar-25 - fly Toronto > New York > Rome, Italy Thr-Mar-26 @ FBI, Cagliari, Italy Fri-Mar-27 @ Babylon, Istanbul, Turkey Sat-Mar-28 @ Beat Club, Stuttgart, Germany Sun-Mar-29 - day off in Stuttgart, Germany Mon-Mar-30 - day off / travel day Stuttgart > Munich Tue-Mar-31 @ Bayrischer Hof, Munich, Germany Wed-Apr-01 @ Roxy, Prague, Czech Rep Thr-Apr-02 @ den Atelier, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg Fri-Apr-03 @ Garorock Festival, Marmande, France Sat-Apr-04 @ Festival Panoramas, Morlaix, France Sun-Apr-05 @ Jornadas de Cultura Fest, Alicante, Spain Mon-Apr-06 - day off in Alicante, Spain Tue-Apr-07 @ New Morning, Paris, France Wed-Apr-08 - day off in Paris, France Thr-Apr-09 - day off in Paris, France Fri-Apr-10 @ Karma Hotel Festival, Oostende, Belgium Sat-Apr-11 @ Cargo, London, UK Sun-Apr-12 - fly London, UK > NY, USA > Toronto Mon-Apr-13 - arrive Toronto ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GURU'S JAZZMATAZZ in Europe - end ------------------------------------------------------------------------	Jazz Hip-hop	Tour	European Tour

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UPCOMING

Mar 25 - Apr 13 - GURU's JAZZMATAZZ
EUROPEAN TOUR DATES
Legendary rapper of Gangstarr fame & his Jazzmatazz crew head to Europe
feat. Guru, Solar, DJ DooWop, Brownman & David Scott
Wed-Mar-25 - fly Toronto > New Yokr > Rome, Italy
Thr-Mar-26 @ FBI, Cagliari, Italy
Fri-Mar-27 @ Babylon, Istanbul, Turkey
Sat-Mar-28 @ Beat Club, Stuttgart, Germany
Sun-Mar-29 - day off in Stuttgart
Mon-Mar-30 - day off / travel day: Stuttgart > Munich
Tue-Mar-31 @ Bayrischer Hof, Munich, Germany
Wed-Apr-01 @ Roxy, Prague, Czech Rep
Thr-Apr-02 @ den Atelier, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
Fri-Apr-03 @ Garorock Festival, Marmande, France
Sat-Apr-04 @ Festival Panoramas, Morlaix, France
Sun-Apr-05 @ Jornadas de Cultura Hip Hop Fest, Alicante, Spain
Mon-Apr-06 - day off in Spain
Tue-Apr-07 @ New Morning, Paris, France
Wed-Apr-08 - day off in Paris, France
Thr-Apr-09 - day off in Paris, France
Fri-Apr-10 @ Karma Hotel Festival, Oostende, Belgium
Sat-Apr-11 @ Cargo, London, UK
Sun-Apr-12 - fly London > New York > Toronto
Mon-Apr-13 - arrive Toronto .

Brown is focused heavily
on recording sessions:
He was, or is, currently locked in
studios with the following artists:
Guru (hip-hop)
Brownman Electryc Trio (electric jazz)
Josh Goodman (jazz)
Gerardo Brizuela (Latin house / electronica)
Trey Mills (singer/songwriter)
Rex Mann (folk)
Sheldon Barkley (Calypso)
Fernando Maar (jazz-rock)
Tia Brazda (singer/songwriter)
Jued (hip-hop)
John Eccelston (singer/songwriter)
Professor D (hip-hop)
Third Word (hip-hop)
Rikoshay (hip-hop)
Jason Wilson (progressive reggae)
CRUZAO (latin-jazz-urbania)
Chiva (Colombian latin-jazz)
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**Released Summer 2007
Brownman is currently the touring trumpet soloist with with legendary rapper GURU (of Gangstarr fame) in his JAZZMATAZZ ensemble.

Guru & Brownman
- a brief history -

2006 ended for Brownman with the explosive "Jazz By Genre" presentation of legendary rapper of Jazzmatazz and Gangstarr fame - GURU, held in Toronto's revered Mod Club. This could have been just another 'backing band for out-of-town act' session for the often called Trinidadian trumpeter, but the chemistry between Brown and Guru was evident even back then on their first meeting. During that show Guru would push him out of his regular horn position to the front of the stage to solo while the hip-hop legend held a mic in front of his horn's bell. This single performance would lead to a phone call from Guru's producer Solar a month later asking Brown if he was available to make an appearance on the upcoming 2007 release of 'Jazzmatazz Vol. 4', replacing the luminious Donald Byrd as the featured trumpet soloist. Brown, accepting immediately, would write a special horn arrangement of "Universal Struggle" and solo throughout the tune. In early Feb '07 he was again contacted by Solar, impressed by Brown's work on the track, to ask him to tour America for the release of JAZZMATAZZ VOL. 4.

Since then Brownman is deeply honoured to have been touring the world as the featured soloist with GURU's JAZZMATAZZ as they bring their unique breed of jazz-hip-hop through The United States, Europe, Japan & South America. The world tour continues...

See extensive YouTube archive of tour footage.

BROWN NEWS
(by publicist Andrew McIntosh) :

Brownman nonimated for a 2008
Toronto Independant Music Award w/ the
BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO for
2008 Toronto Jazz Group of the Year
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Brownman nonimated for a 2008
National Jazz Award w/ the
BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO for
2008 Electric Jazz Group of the Year
(the group won in this category last year)
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Brownman named Toronto's
NOW Magazine's
2007 Toronto Jazz Trumpeter of the Year
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Featured cover story for the Oct/Nov 2007 issue
of CODA magazine, Canada's most acclaimed
jazz publication since 1958.

Read the whole article
here (2.3meg PDF file)
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After being nominated in 5 categories at the 2007 Canadian National Jazz Awards, the BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO was honoured to have been awarded the 2007 National Jazz Award for Electric Jazz Group of the Year. Thanks to all that voted!
Brownman was nominated for :
- Canadian National Jazz Composer of the Year
- Canadian National Jazz Musician of the Year
- Canadian National Jazz Instrumentalist of the Year
- Canadian National Latin-jazz Artist of the Year
- Canadian National Electric Group of the Year
(w/ Brownman Electryc Trio)
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Brownman asked to tour with legendary NYC hip-hop rapper Guru (of Gangstarr and Jazzmatazz fame). After replacing the unavailable Roy Hargrove on Guru's Jazzmatazz Vol. 4 recording session (hits the store in June), Brownman was asked to tour America. He departs June 9th for Zurich, Switzerland for 3 days of rehearsals before embarking on a blistering tour European tour before the U.S.A. tour dates being July 15. Check out the tour dates:
http://www.brownman.com/GigSchedule/2007-06-sched.htm
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Brownman was 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!
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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...
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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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