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Feb 2012 Bookings/Gig Schedule
Date / Time
Band
Idiom
Venue
City
Thr.
Feb 09
2012
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7:00pm
Barrie's Afro-Caribbean Multicultural Association
in partnership with the City of Barrie
presents
for Black History Month :
BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO
Brownman Electryc Trio
with the B.E.T. CANADA permutation:
Brownman - electric trumpet
Andrew Roorda - 6-string electric bass
Colin Kingsmore - drums
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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
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2007 Canadian
National Jazz Award winners for "Electric Jazz
Group of the Year"
Mady Center
Info:
(705) 739-4228
(MAP)
$5

at the door
1 Dunlop St. W.
Barrie,
Ontario
Sat.
Feb 11
2012
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2:00pm
to
5:00pm
Cuppa Cafe
presents
CRUZAO LATIN-JAZZ TRIO
Click to see full poster
featuring
Brownman Ali - trumpet  (Trinidad)
Paco Luviano - bass (Mexico)
Amhed Mitchel - drums (Cuba)
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See the poster
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From Press Release:
"3 members of Trinidadian-born NYC-schooled, iconic Toronto-based trumpet player Brownman's latin-jazz supergroup CRUZAO.  They are the winners of the Montreal Jazz Fest's coveted "Grand Prix du Jazz" award, the CBC Galaxie Rising Star award,  a 4-time nominee at the National Jazz Awards, and a 3-time Independent Music Award nominee -- this group, in it's full 5-man configuration, has been called "Canada's premiere latin-jazz ensemble" by the Toronto Star.  CRUZAO LATIN-JAZZ TRIO is a compact, stripped down version of that award-winning ensemble at 3-man large. Sporting a modified reportoire written specifically for this smaller permutation the trio features the talents of Paco Luviano on bass (from Mexico), Amhed Mitchel on drums (from Cuba), under the leadership of trumpet player Brownman Ali (from Trinidad) heralded as "Canada's preeminent jazz trumpet player" by New York City's Village Voice magazine"
Latin-jazz-urbania
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Award-winning chordless latin-jazz fusing authentic
  latin rhythms, jazz harmonies & urban funkification
Cuppa Cafe
Info:
416-580-9983
(MAP)
$FREE
592 Queen St. W.
Toronto,
Ontario
Sun.
Feb 12
2012
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6:00pm
to
10:00pm
Buffalo's Pearl St. Brewery
presents
SPEAKEASY SUNDAYS - Launch Party
with
OMEGA MEN
BROWNMAN & DJ CUTLER
A night of DJ + horn

featuring:
Brownman - electric trumpet
DJ Cutler - turntables
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from Press Release:
"Internationally acclaimed and heralded as Canada's preeminent jazz trumpet player, BROWNMAN - the featured soloist for Guru's Jazzmatazz from 2006 to 2010 - comes to Buffalo's Blue Monk to collaborate with Buffalo's own local legend DJ CUTLER (of Fat Beat Records fame & DJ to Jeru the Damaja for an evening of DJ+HORN madness you will not want to miss!"
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“The unique combination of Brownman and Cutler epitomizes our effort to cultivate the current incarnation of speakeasy music – dangerous, daring, and best served underground,” said The Good Neighborhood founder Seamus Gallivan. “We’re making this a free event to build it into a Sunday scene regardless of who’s performing, and in the process seek to introduce audiences to sounds they might not know and the many local arts and cultural organizations supported by the Give for Greatness.”
DJ + HORN
--
breakbeats and DJ mixes under an award-winning improvising jazz musician
Pearl Street
Brewery
Info:
716-856-2337
(MAP)
$FREE
76 Pearl St.
Buffalo,
New York
Tue.
Feb 14
2012
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8:00pm
Toronto's Trane Studio
presents
A Valantine's Day Concert
with
BROWNMAN LOVE QUARTET

featuring:
Brownman - trumpet
Steve Cole - guitar
Mark Cashion - bass
Mike Kosowski - drums 
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See the poster
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from Press Release:
For this pre-Valentine's Day concert, award-winning jazz trumpet player Brownman Ali and his aptly named Love Quartet will play selections from the great American songbook that feature the word "love" in it's title.  Expect to hear Cole Porter's "Love for Sale" & "I Love You", Jimmy Davis' "Lover Man", Isham Jones' "There is no greater love" and Jimmy Van Heusen's "Like someone in love" amongst a long list of classics.
Jazz
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Valentine's Day Concert feat. tunes with the word "love" in their title
Trane Studio
Info:
416-913-8197
(MAP)
$15

at the door
$10
w/ dinner reservation
964 Bathurst St.
(north of Bloor
at Follis)
Toronto,
Ontario
Fri.
Feb 17
2012
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8:00pm
Toronto's Lula Lounge
presents
CRUZAO LATIN-JAZZ TRIO
Click to see full poster
featuring
Brownman Ali - trumpet  (Trinidad)
Paco Luviano - bass (Mexico)
Amhed Mitchel - drums (Cuba)
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See the poster
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Stick around for iPercussion hitting the stage at 11pm!
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From Press Release:
"3 members of Trinidadian-born NYC-schooled, iconic Toronto-based trumpet player Brownman's latin-jazz supergroup CRUZAO.  They are the winners of the Montreal Jazz Fest's coveted "Grand Prix du Jazz" award, the CBC Galaxie Rising Star award,  a 4-time nominee at the National Jazz Awards, and a 3-time Independent Music Award nominee -- this group, in it's full 5-man configuration, has been called "Canada's premiere latin-jazz ensemble" by the Toronto Star.  CRUZAO LATIN-JAZZ TRIO is a compact, stripped down version of that award-winning ensemble at 3-man large. Sporting a modified reportoire written specifically for this smaller permutation the trio features the talents of Paco Luviano on bass (from Mexico), Amhed Mitchel on drums (from Cuba), under the leadership of trumpet player Brownman Ali (from Trinidad) heralded as "Canada's preeminent jazz trumpet player" by New York City's Village Voice magazine"
Latin-jazz-urbania
--
Award-winning chordless latin-jazz fusing authentic
  latin rhythms, jazz harmonies & urban funkification
Lula Lounge
Info:
416-588-0307
(MAP)
$49 

dinner package
$15
at the door
1585 Dundas St. W.
Toronto,
Ontario
Sun.
Feb 19
2011
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0:00pm
Toronto's Gate 403
presents
BROWNMAN AKOUSTIC TRIO

featuring
Brownman - trumpet
Mark Cashion - upright bass
Norbert Botos - drums
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From Press Release:
"Recently returning to Toronto after a grueling period of juggling touring schedules between the Brownman Electryc Trio and various US projects, the Toronto based Trinidadian-born multi-award winning jazz trumpeter brings his acoustic trio to Gate 403 for a Sunday night of 50's & 60's jazz ala Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Joe Henderson, Duke Ellington and the American jazz songbook."
Mainstream
Jazz
--
like Miles, Duke, 
Coltrane, Bird, etc...
Gate 403
Info:
416-588-2930 
(MAP)
$PWYC
403 Roncessvalles Ave.
Toronto,
Ontario
Tue.
Feb 21
2012
Lou Dawgs Marti Gras fest
presents
IRENE TORRES &
The SUGAR DEVILS

featuring
Irene's energized 9-piece band 
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From Press Release:
The Sugar Devils were molded together over a 2 year span to feature a hand select group of musicians. Their musical diversity, raw energy, and love for southern music makes them an equally unique group to hear and watch. Drawing from all genres, they share a common theme, a southern swamp sound. If you could mesh the past, present, and future of lousiana music, you'd get The Sugar Devils
New Orleans,
Street Beat,
Gumbo,
Second Line
Jazz
Lou Dawgs
Info:
(647) 347-329
(MAP)

$10
at the door
589 King St. W.
Toronto,
Ontario
Thr.
Feb 23
2012
National Arts Centre
presents
PAVLO

featuring
Pavlo - guitar
George Vasilako - bouzouki
Randy Rodriguez - bass
Gino Mirizio - drums
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From Press Release:
"Pavlo is a composer, a guitarist, a singer and a recording artist. He composes in a style of music best described as “Mediterranean music,” a music that combines influences of Flamenco, Latin, Classical and Mediterranean guitar mixed together with the Greek Bouzouki. Recently, Pavlo has branched out to sing several songs on his latest album, Irresistible. “It was a natural progression to compose music that combined my childhood studies of Flamenco/Latin Guitar with my love for Greek music and European music in general,” commented Pavlo."
Mediterranean
National Arts
Center
Info:
(613) 947-7000
(MAP)

$30 / $40
Buy Tickets Online
53 Elgin St.
Ottawa,
Ontario
Fri.
Feb 24
2012
Roy Thompson Hall
presents
PAVLO

featuring
Pavlo - guitar
George Vasilako - bouzouki
Randy Rodriguez - bass
Gino Mirizio - drums
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From Press Release:
"Pavlo is a composer, a guitarist, a singer and a recording artist. He composes in a style of music best described as “Mediterranean music,” a music that combines influences of Flamenco, Latin, Classical and Mediterranean guitar mixed together with the Greek Bouzouki. Recently, Pavlo has branched out to sing several songs on his latest album, Irresistible. “It was a natural progression to compose music that combined my childhood studies of Flamenco/Latin Guitar with my love for Greek music and European music in general,” commented Pavlo."
Mediterranean
Roy Thompson
Hall
Info:
(416) 872-4255
(MAP)

$40 / $50 / $60
Buy Tickets Online
60 Simcoe St.
Toronto,
Ontario
Sat.
Feb 25
2012
Hamilton's Pearl Company Arts Facility
presents:
KALEIDOSCOPE BROWN - Episode 7
Pearl's monthly concert series, launched in Aug '11, features a different ensemble featuring Brownman Ali each month. "We are calling it the Kaleidoscope Brown Jazz Series! “Kaleidoscope” because of the startling diversity this artist always displays as evidenced by the breadth of music making he’s always a part of", states Pearl Co. director Barbara Milne.
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This month:
BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO
Brownman Electryc Trio
with the B.E.T. Canadian permutation:
Brownman - electric trumpet
Ben Miller - 6-string electric bass
Colin Kingsmore - drums
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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 winners for "Electric Jazz
Group of the Year"
Pearl Company
Arts Facility
Info:
905-524-0606
(MAP)
$15 door

$10 artists 
& students
16 Steven St.
Hamilton,
Ontario
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UPCOMING

More Brownman Electryc Trio
tour dates in support of
the release of Juggernaut
on Browntasauras Records

Please grab a copy at
Browntasauras.Brownman.com

Brown is focused heavily
on recording sessions:
He was, or is laying tracks in
studios with the following artists:
Nelly Furtado (pop)
Brownman Electryc Trio (electric jazz)
Shifty (hip-hop)
Shyann (neo-soul)
Strange Attractors (modern jazz)
Chiva (Colombian latin-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)
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R.I.P. GURU
On Apr 19th, 2010 Keith "Guru" Elam died after a long battle with cancer.  Since 2006, Brownman has been touring as the featured soloist with Guru's Jazzmatazz, and appeared on Jazzmatazz Vol. 4

Visit the Guru & Brownman memorial page:
Guru.Brownman.com

Guru & Brownman
- a brief history -

Guru and Brownman - Belgium

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 team 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 Guru's people, impressed by Brown's work on the track, to ask him to tour America for the release of JAZZMATAZZ VOL. 4.

Brownman soloing hard - Portugal (photo: Alexandre Vaz)

Since then Brownman has been touring the world as the featured soloist with GURU's JAZZMATAZZ as they brought their unique breed of jazz-hip-hop through The United States, Europe, Japan & South America. 

See extensive YouTube archive of tour footage.

Update:
In Jan 2010, Both Brownman & DJ DooWop left Jazzmatazz together, their exit precipitated by the often reported meglomaniacal ways of Solar - Guru's producer.  Guru had, over time, had slowly given up control of all affairs to Solar who, in turn, continued to abuse and manipulate the entire team, from Guru himself through the organization's entire infra-structure.

On Apr 19th, 2010 Keith "Guru" Elam died after a long battle with cancer.

For more on the fiasco behind Solar's dominance over Guru visit :  FuckSolar.com - a fan driven website dedicated to documenting Solar's downfall.

See Brownman's unabridged 3000 word interview with the Boston Phoenix, reprinted with permission by FuckSolar.com, where he details all he saw while with Jazzmatazz.

Guru and Brownman - Brazil


BROWN NEWS
(by publicist Andrew McIntosh) :

On Nov 22nd, 2010 Brownman Ali was inducted into the WHOS WHO IN BLACK CANADA - the famous comprehensive national biographical directory & website of outstanding Black-Canadian achievers - alongside jazz legend Oliver Jones and former Governor General Rt. Hon. Michaëlle Jean.  This rather impressive look at this life, includes an interview, and embedded video from the BRAVO! Channel documentary on his life entitled "the life and times of Brown":
www.WhosWhoInBlackCanada.com/2010/11/22/brownman-ali
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Artvoice magazine nominates
BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO for
2010 Jazz Act of the Year
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Brownman nonimated for a 2010
Toronto Independant Music Award w/ the
BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO for
2010 Toronto Jazz Group of the Year
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Brownman named
2009 Favourite Touring Soloist
(w/ Jazzmatazz) 
by London, UK's Jazz After Dark 
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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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