Photo from the Old Mill Website
Back in Toronto after recent tour dates in Hawaii, Trinidadian-born multi-award winning jazz trumpeter BROWNMAN ALI brings his straight-ahead hard-swinging acoustic quartet to the Old Mill's Home Smith Bar for a night of 50s & 60s jazz ala Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Joe Henderson, Duke Ellington and the great American jazz songbook. Ali has won 2 National Jazz Awards, a SOCAN award for composition, 4 Toronto Independent Music Awards, Montreal Jazz Fest's "Grand Prix du Jazz" award, an International Independent Music Award, is heralded as "Canada's preeminent jazz trumpet player" by the New York Village Voice and was named "one of the top 10 reasons to visit Toronto" by Air Canada.
:: Brownman Ali - trumpet
:: Nick Maclean - piano
:: Lauren Falls - bass
:: Tyler Goertzen - drums
Location: Home Smith Bar, 9 Old Mill Road, Toronto, ON
Time: 7:30-10:30pm
AkousticTrio Website
Brownman Website
NOTE: There is no cover charge to patrons, but the Old Mill requires a minimum per person food/beverage expenditure of $20.
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ABOUT BROWNMAN ALI
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Heralded as “Canada’s preeminent Jazz trumpeter” by NYC’s Village Voice, Trinidad-born BROWNMAN ALI is a multiple award-winning NYC-schooled protégé to his teacher, Grammy-winning trumpet legend, Randy Brecker.
A highly decorated player, his awards and accolades include two National Jazz Awards (with 11 nominations over the years), Montreal Jazz Festival’s “Grand Prix Du Jazz” award, a CBC Galaxie Rising Star award, a SOCAN Composers Award, an International Independent Music Award for “Album of the Year”, 3 Toronto Independent Music Awards for “Jazz Artist Of The Year” (8 nominations), a Black Canadian Award nomination for “Jazz Musician of the Year”, a Caribbean Music Award nomination for “Jazz Artist of the Year”, an induction into “Who’s Who in Black Canada”, a Bravo! TV channel documentary on his life, NOW Magazine naming him “Toronto’s Best Jazz Musician”, CBC Radio Canada naming him “one of the most recorded trumpet players in Canadian history”, NPR in New York calling him “the new standard in electric jazz”, the Trinidad & Tobago Consulate General awarding him a citation as a “Distinguished National of Trinidad”, and listing by Air Canada as one of the “Top 10 reasons to visit Toronto”.
Brownman delivers a wide range of styles from bebop to hip-hop. A unique and provocative trumpet player, he is In high demand in the studio world with over 300 CD appearances to date, working with notables from Quincy Jones, Paul Simon, Mos Def, Gary Bartz, Jay-Z, Missy Elliot, and Chucho Valdes, to Guru’s Jazzmatazz and the Mingus Dynasty Band. He leads seven unique ensembles including the internationally-acclaimed Miles Davis influenced Brownman Electryc Trio, the award-winning Cruzao Latin Jazz Quintet, and tonight’s hard-swinging Brownman Akoustic Quartet.
