Press Release
For Immediate distribution - Southern Ontario localized

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Nationally acclaimed trumpeter brings
his jazz-hip-hop outfit GRUVASYLUM to Toronto's Trane Studio

Fri Apr 29, 2005
Trane Studio
964 Bathurst St.
9:30pm
416-913-8197

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Why would a multi-award winning nationally acclaimed jazz trumpet player front a hip-hop band?  Mainly because it's just one colour in Trinidadian-Canadian National Jazz Award winner Nick "Brownman" Ali's musical palette.  He leads no less than 7 critically acclaimed groups of varying sizes all dedicated to evolving the art of jazz coupled with other musical ideologies.  Brownman brings his jazz-hip-hop crew GRUVASYLUM to Toronto's Trane Studio on Apr 29.  This group closes the gap between hip-hop and jazz exploring Brownman's belief that the improvised elements that drives a cypher's "freestyle" and the essence that fuels a jazz musician's improvised solo - are one in the same.  Hip-hop, drum'n'bass, funk and soul all provide the back drop for this group's improvisational explorations, featuring Enlight - one of Canada's most conscious freestyle rappers.