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Sat.
Nov 05 2011 ---- 7:00pm |
presents PAVLO featuring Pavlo - guitar George Vasilako - bouzouki Randy Rodriguez - bass Gino Mirizio - drums ---- "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." |
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Theatre in the St. Clair College Centre for the Arts Box office: 1-800-387-9181 (MAP) $32 -- Buy Tickets |
Windsor |
Sun.
Nov 06 2011 ---- 3:00pm to 11:30pm |
ANDY & CARIN (of 10 Feet Tall) All good things must come to an end and last month the doors of Ten Feet Tall closed for good. Andy and Carin-both musicians-worked tirelessly at providing a home for TO's best musicians and their fans. Now it's our turn to return the favour! Andy is struggling with some very serious health challenges and will be off on leave of absence from his new job as Chef at a retirement home. He will need at least 3 or 4 months off for recovery time. Carin has taken a new job as well, but with 4 young mouths to feed, they need our help!! If you played at Ten Feet Tall or went to see your favourite musicians there, you'll remember the warm and inviting energy that emenated from its interior. Please come out and hear TO's greatest musicians who are giving their time to entertain you for this fundraiser. Carin and Andy will be there to say hello and welcome you. $15.00 Min. Donation. Please Be Generous. FEATURING THE BEST IN TORONTO'S
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Fund-raiser |
Info: 416-599-7323 (MAP) |
Toronto |
Tue.
Nov 08 2011 ---- 8:00pm to Midnight |
presents IRENE TORRES & The SUGAR DEVILS featuring Irene's energized 9-piece band with featured guests each week ---- The Sugar Devils has several layers like any living organism. Starting from the first layer which is the deep rich culture which each members musical influences originate from (new orleans, africa, brazil to cuba). The second layer are the vast rhythmic, harmonic, and melodic sounds that come from everywhere. the third Layer is the blend of older and new material, both well known and not so well known songs, from pop, blues, jazz, world, instrumental and vocal, original and standards, all blended into a fresh sound. The fourth layer is the blend of acoustic and electric together, with both hypnotic and up-beat rhapsidizing music that will serve as therapeutic and groovy. |
Street Beat, Gumbo, Second Line Jazz |
Room Info: 416-975-0909 (MAP) $5 door |
Toronto |
Sat.
Nov 12 2011 ---- 8:00pm |
presents Kaleidoscope Brown Pearl's new monthly concert series featuring 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." ---- This month: ARECIBO (latin-jazz) featuring Brownman Ali – trumpet (Trinidad) Paul Morrison – piano (Canada) Ben Miller – bass (Canada) Amhed Mitchel – drums (Cuba) ---- A brand new latin-jazz outfit delving deeply into both Cuban and Brazilian modern jazz traditions in the New York latin-jazz spirit of Jerry Gonzalez & The Fort Apache Band featuring some of the city’s most acclaimed jazz and latin music specialists. The group is named after the Arecibo radio telescope housed in Puerto Rico – the largest radio telescope in the world, responsible for the deepest exploration of space mankind has achieved to date. |
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Arts Facility Info: 905-524-0606 (MAP) $15 door $10 artists & students |
Hamilton |
Tue.
Nov 15 2011 ---- 9:00pm |
presents IRENE TORRES & The SUGAR DEVILS featuring Irene's energized 9-piece band with featured guests each week ---- The Sugar Devils has several layers like any living organism. Starting from the first layer which is the deep rich culture which each members musical influences originate from (new orleans, africa, brazil to cuba). The second layer are the vast rhythmic, harmonic, and melodic sounds that come from everywhere. the third Layer is the blend of older and new material, both well known and not so well known songs, from pop, blues, jazz, world, instrumental and vocal, original and standards, all blended into a fresh sound. The fourth layer is the blend of acoustic and electric together, with both hypnotic and up-beat rhapsidizing music that will serve as therapeutic and groovy. |
Street Beat, Gumbo, Second Line Jazz |
Room Info: 416-975-0909 (MAP) $5 door |
Toronto |
Fri.
Nov 18 2011 ---- 10:00pm |
BROWNMAN & DJ CUTLER A night of DJ + horn featuring: Brownman - electric trumpet DJ Cutler - turntables ---- "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!" |
-- breakbeats and DJ mixes under an award-winning improvising jazz musician |
Info: 716.882.6665 (MAP) FREE!! |
Buffalo, New York |
Sat.
Nov 19 2011 ---- 10:00pm to 2:00am |
presents TYPE RELEVANT featuring Mad Dukes - rapper, Dr. Ooo - rapper Brian Herlihy (Relevant) - 7-string guitar John Hunter (TypeNice) - drums, DJ Cutler - turntables with special guest BROWNMAN - trumpet ---- "A night of all-live Jazz & Hip-Hop collaborations featuring award winning hip-hop band "Type Relevant" and highly decorated Canadian jazz artist: Brownman (soloist for Guru's Jazzmatazz / Electryc Trio) . TR + Brownman is always an energetic and entertaining show." TYPE RELEVANT Band Bio: For nearly a decade, Type Relevant has been captivating audiences leaving them mesmerized and wanting more. Type Relevant is a powerhouse trio that can impress a wide range of crowds with a blend of jazz, funk, blues, and hip-hop. Originally a duo, the group formed in 1999. ---- Type Relevant on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZmkDaqCw0E |
-- like Tribe Called Quest, The Roots, etc... |
Music Academy Info: 716-939-2674 716.882.6665 (MAP) FREE!! |
Buffalo, New York |
Mon.
Nov 21 2011 ---- 9:00pm |
presents JOHN CHEESMAN JAZZ ORCHESTRA featuring: John Cheesman (drums & compositions) Sandy Barter, Jason Logue, Brownman Ali, Bruce Cassidy (trumpets) Andy Ballyntyne, Colleen Allen, Don Englert (saxes) RJ, Will Carn, Bob Livingston (trombones) Ted Quinlin (guitar) | Gary Williamson (piano) Scott Alexander (bass) ---- "A unique and progressive big band under the direction of drummer/composer John Cheesman." |
Progressive Big Band |
Info: 416-598-2475 (MAP) $7 |
Toronto |
Tue.
Nov 22 2011 ---- 9:00pm |
presents Chris Lesso's MODUS FACTOR featuring Brownman Ali - electric trumpet Chris Gartner - electric bass & loops Chris Lesso - drums & Korg wave drum ---- "Three of Toronto's busiest studio musicians step back into the club circuit with MODUS FACTOR, all bringing their own considerable experience from 3 different musical circles to the table to form a truly unique new electro-ambient jazz outfit. All 3 of these artists are heavy users of modern electronics to colour their sounds. Modus Factor, Lesso's brainchild, brings all 3 of these musicians and their one-of-a-kind sounds on stage together performing uniquely exploratory electronic laden soundscapes, setting the table for an expedition into modern music that will resonate with sounds ranging from Miles Davis to Frank Zappa to Antonio Carlos Jobim." ---- Chris Lesso : Influenced heavily by Frank Zappa drummers, Chris Lesso spent years touring the world with Tony "Wild T" Springer & The Spirit and is a highly acclaimed figure in the country's rock and drum community (endorsed by Sonor Drums) Brownman Ali : Trinidadian born & known as Canada's multi-award winning jazz trumpet icon heralded as "Canada's pre-eminent jazz trumpet player" by New York's Village Voice magazine Chris Gartner : An extremely sought after bassist in Toronto's busy World music scene, a founding member of Tasa & Jaffa Road, both Juno nominated groups. ---- See Brownman w/ Chris Lesso's MODUS FACTOR on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_b9ncbRVyM |
Jazz Improvisational Madness |
Info: 416-913-8197 (MAP) $10 at the door |
(north of Bloor at Follis) Toronto |
Sat.
Nov 26 2011 ---- 9:00pm |
presents CRUZAO LATIN-JAZZ TRIO featuring Brownman Ali - trumpet (Trinidad) Paco Luviano - bass (Mexico) Max Senitt - drums (Chile) -- "3 members of the award-winning latin-jazz supergroup CRUZAO come together in rare trio format to delight Poetry Jazz Cafe audiences with their energized Brazilian and Cuban vibes." |
Trio |
Jazz Cafe Info: 416-599-5299 (MAP) $5 |
(this place has no sign - look for the giant painting of Miles Davis' hands on the entrance!) Toronto |
Matinee
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presents BROWNMAN AKOUSTIC TRIO featuring Brownman - trumpet Mark Cashion - upright bass Eric West - drums ---- "Recently returning to Toronto after a summer 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." |
Jazz -- like Miles, Duke, Coltrane, Bird, etc... |
Info: 416-588-2930 (MAP) $PWYC |
Toronto |
Tue.
Nov 29 2011 ---- 9:00pm |
presents LADY SINGS THE BLUES A TRIBUTE TO BILLIE HOLIDAY feat. IRENE TORRES (Sugar Devils) featuring Irene's energized 9-piece band with featured guests each week ---- FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE ---- "Sugar Devils vocalist Irene Torres pays tribute to legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday. Special guest Dave McMorrow, piano player to Holiday, will be musically directing the band who will play all his own arrangements" |
-- Billie Holiday Tribute |
Room Info: 416-975-0909 (MAP) $5 door |
Toronto |
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is focused heavily
R.I.P.
GURU
Visit the Guru & Brownman memorial
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Guru
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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. 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:
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. |
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 -- Artvoice magazine nominates BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO for 2010 Jazz Act of the Year -- Brownman nonimated for a 2010 Toronto Independant Music Award w/ the BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO for 2010 Toronto Jazz Group of the Year -- Brownman named 2009 Favourite Touring Soloist (w/ Jazzmatazz) by London, UK's Jazz After Dark -- 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:
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