Zemra Lounge, 778 St Clair Ave W Toronto, ON (416) 651-3123 www.zemrabarlounge.com
JASON WILSON REGGAE-JAZZ QUARTET
:: Jason Wilson - piano / vocals
:: Brownman Ali - trumpet
:: Mark Cashion - bass
:: Mike Kosowski - drums
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Considered one of the most important figures in the Canadian reggae scene, Jason Wilson was the protégé of Studio One keyboardist Jackie Mittoo & the cousin of UB40’s Michael Virtue. A two-time Juno Award nominee & Canadian Reggae Music Award winner, this latest project is an official reggae-jazz mashup featuring some of the city's finest jazz musicians. The soon to be recorded quartet includes Canada's iconoclastic Trinidadian-born jazz trumpet player Brownman Ali, Toronto's most in demand upright bassist Marc Cashion & the deeply creative Akoustic Trio's Mike Kosowski -- fronted by the award-winning reggae artist himself.
www.JasonWilsonMusic.com
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“You can make a legitimate argument than no Canadian artist has ever done more to innovate within his genre and expand popular perceptions of what his artform represents than Jason Wilson has for reggae music”
- WORD magazine
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Sat-Apr-08 @ Zemra Lounge, 9pm, $10
Zemra Lounge, 778 St Clair Ave W Toronto, ON (416) 651-3123 www.zemrabarlounge.com
BROWNMAN AKOUSTIC TRIO
:: Brownman Ali - trumpet
:: Mark Cashion - bass
:: Mike Kosowski - drums
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Toronto based Trinidadian-born multi-award winning jazz trumpeter brings his straight-ahead hard-swinging acoustic trio to Zemra Lounge for a Saturday night of 50's & 60's jazz ala Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Joe Henderson, Duke Ellington and the American jazz songbook.
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Heralded as “Canada’s preeminent Jazz trumpeter” by NYC’s Village Voice, Brownman Ali - born on the small Caribbean island of Trinidad, & schooled in NYC - is a multiple award-winning NYC-schooled protégé to his teacher, Grammy-winning trumpet legend, Randy Brecker. Tirelessly leading 7 unique ensembles of his own, when not in high demand in the the studio world with over 300 CD appearances to date, Brownman delivers stylistically authentic horn playing over a wide range of styles from bebop to hiphop. He is considered to be one of the most unique and provocative improvising trumpet players on the scene today and is widely regarded as a vanguard for the evolution of Jazz in Canada. A highly decorated player, his accolades include several National Jazz Awards, a CBC Galaxie Rising Star award, a SOCAN composers award, a Toronto Independent Music Award, an induction into the WHO'S WHO IN BLACK CANADA, a BRAVO! channel documentary on his life, NOW magazine naming him "Jazz Artist of the Year", CBC Radio Canada named him "one of the most recorded trumpet players in Canadian history", the Trinidad & Tobago Consulate General awarded him with a citation for being a "Distinguished National of Trinidad", and is listed by Air Canada as one of the "Top 10 reasons to visit Toronto".
:: Brownman.com / Facebook / MySpace / YouTube ::
