Sun Aug 09 - w/
GOD
MADE ME FUNKY (private function)
06:00pm......Toronto based God Made Me Funky (GMMF) is a funky live ensemble, comprised of a diverse array of musicians ranging .............from a classically trained Jazz artist to street schooled Hip-Hop and RnB vocalists. .............@ Private Party, Toronto (sorry y'all!) Fri Aug 14 - w/
BROWNMAN
ELECTRYC TRIO IN BUFFALO
Sat Aug 15 - w/
TYPE
RELEVANT IN BUFFALO
Sun Aug 16 - w/
ETHNOCITY
AT MARKHAM JAZZ FEST
Sun Aug 16 - w/
GOD
MADE ME FUNKY (private function)
Wed Aug 19 - w/
DAVID
RYSHPAN & TRIO
BRUXO IN MONTREAL, night
1/2
Thr Aug 20 - w/
DAVID
RYSHPAN & TRIO
BRUXO IN MONTREAL, night
2/2
Sat Aug 22 - w/
PAVLO
IN CLEVELAND
Thr Aug 27 - w/
MICHAEL
JACKSON TRIBUTE IN TORONTO
Sat Aug 29 - w/
KAHIL
EL'ZABAR & HAMIET BLUIETT IN
TORONTO
Mon Aug 31 - w/
JOHN
CHEESMAN JAZZ ORCHESTRA
IN TORONTO
Every Sat in Oct - the return of FIVE
WEEKS FOR MILES IN TORONTO
Oct - launch of BROWNTASAURAS
RECORDS WORLD-WIDE!
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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) . **Released Summer 2007 Brownman is currently the touring trumpet soloist with with legendary rapper GURU (of Gangstarr fame) in his JAZZMATAZZ ensemble. Guru
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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 -- 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) -- Brownman named Toronto's NOW Magazine's 2007 Toronto Jazz Trumpeter of the Year -- 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) -- 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) -- 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 -- 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! -- 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:
ALI
BROS "mythological" Canada Day performance:
Interview
with View Magazine (in depth)
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