Blue Note Composer Series: every Sun in Sep, Cobourg, 3-6pm, $25
National Jazz Award winning trumpet iconoclast BROWNMAN ALI and an all-star cast of Toronto's jazz finest explore the compositional works of 5 legendary composers from the seminal Blue Note Records label -- Horace Silver, Joe Henderson, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock & Freddie Hubbard.
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Every Sunday afternoon in Sept (2, 9, 16, 23, 30)
BLUE NOTE COMPOSER Series
The Loft, 201 Division St., Cobourg, Ontario
www.CobourgLoft.ca
:: All shows $25 adults, $15 for students w/ ID, $99 5-show pass...
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Blue Note Composer Series: every Sun in Sep, Cobourg, 3-6pm, $25
National Jazz Award winning trumpet iconoclast BROWNMAN ALI and an all-star cast of Toronto's jazz finest explore the compositional works of 5 legendary composers from the seminal Blue Note Records label -- Horace Silver, Joe Henderson, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock & Freddie Hubbard.
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Every Sunday afternoon in Sept (2, 9, 16, 23, 30)
BLUE NOTE COMPOSER Series
The Loft, 201 Division St., Cobourg, Ontario
www.CobourgLoft.ca
:: All shows $25 adults, $15 for students w/ ID, $99 5-show pass
:: 3pm - 6pm [ two 75-min sets ]
:: Online tickets can be purchased by visiting:
www.concerthallatvictoriahall.com/VHshow_bluenote.html
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Sun-Sep-02: Week 1 - The Music of HORACE SILVER
Sun-Sep-09: Week 2 - The Music of JOE HENDERSON
Sun-Sep-16: Week 3 - The Music of WAYNE SHORTER
Sun-Sep-23: Week 4 - The Music of HERBIE HANCOCK
Sun-Sep-30: Week 5 - The Music of FREDDIE HUBBARD
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Heralded as "Canada's preeminent jazz trumpet player" by the New York Village Voice, multi-award winning Trinidadian-born, NYC-school trumpet player & jazz iconoclast Brownman Ali brings his BLUE NOTE COMPOSER Series to Cobourg in the month of September. Spanning 5 Sunday afternoons (3pm-6pm), this 5-part series explores the unique writings of 5 legendary composers from the seminal Blue Note Record label -- Horace Silver, Joe Henderson, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock & Freddie Hubbard -- all historically recognized instrumentalists, whose famed compositions are now part of the fabric of jazz culture. Each week will feature an all-star cast backing Brownman, including 26-year-old Nick Maclean, whose own groups are signed to the Browntasauras Record label and who has been called "a rising star in the Toronto jazz piano community." The series occurs at THE LOFT in Cobourg (www.CobourgLoft.ca), all shows start at 3:00 pm, are $25 (visit the website to buy tickets online), $15 for students with ID or $99 for a 5-show pass that allows patrons to see all the shows, which feature two 75-minute sets of music exploring a different Blue Note composer each week. This series appears courtesy of sponsorship from Long & McQuade Music, Lynn Hardy of RBC Wealth Management, The Loft & Browntasauras Records.
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About Blue Note Records:
www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Note_Records
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HORACE SILVER - Week 1 - Sun-Sep-02
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Featuring the compositions of Horace Silver.
"Horace Silver was an American jazz pianist & renowned composer. Known for his distinctively humorous & funkified playing style, his visionary pioneering compositional contributions to hard-bop would be later dubbed 'acid-jazz'"
:: Brownman Ali - trumpet (National Jazz Award winner)
:: Nick Maclean - piano (Global Music Award winner)
:: Steven Falk - bass (w/ Socialist Night School)
:: Geoffrey Bruce - drums (w/ Brownman Electryc Trio)
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JOE HENDERSON - Week 2 - Sun-Sep-09
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Featuring the compositions of Joe Henderson.
"Joe Henderson was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. In a career spanning more than 40 years Henderson played with many of the leading U.S. players of his day and recorded for several prominent labels, including Blue Note."
:: Brownman Ali - trumpet (National Jazz Award winner)
:: Nick Maclean - piano (Global Music Award winner)
:: Jesse Dietschi - bass (w/ Nick Maclean Quartet)
:: Tyler Goertzen - drums (w/ Brownman Akoustic Trio)
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WAYNE SHORTER - Week 3 - Sun-Sep-16
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Featuring the compositions of Wayne Shorter.
"Wayne Shorter is an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Jazz critic Ben Ratliff of the New York Times has described Shorter as "probably jazz's greatest living small-group composer & a contender for greatest living improviser”.
:: Brownman Ali - trumpet (National Jazz Award winner)
:: Nick Maclean - piano (Global Music Award winner)
:: Jesse Dietschi - bass (w/ Nick Maclean Quartet)
:: Tyler Goertzen - drums (w/ Brownman Akoustic Trio)
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HERBIE HANCOCK - Week 4 - Sun-Sep-23
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Featuring the compositions of Herbie Hancock.
"Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock is an American pianist, keyboardist, bandleader & composer. As part of Miles Davis's Second Great Quintet, Hancock helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section. His many compositions are now jazz staples."
:: Brownman Ali - trumpet (National Jazz Award winner)
:: Nick Maclean - piano (Global Music Award winner)
:: Jesse Dietschi - bass (w/ Nick Maclean Quartet)
:: Tyler Goertzen - drums (w/ Brownman Akoustic Trio)
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FREDDIE HUBBARD - Week 5 - Sun-Sep-30
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Featuring the compositions of Freddie Hubbard.
"Frederick Dewayne "Freddie" Hubbard was an American jazz trumpeter known primarily for playing in the bebop, hard bop & post bop styles from the early 1960s and on. His compositions now stand as classics in jazz history."
:: Brownman Ali - trumpet (National Jazz Award winner)
:: Nick Maclean - piano (Global Music Award winner)
:: Jesse Dietschi - bass (w/ Nick Maclean Quartet)
:: Tyler Goertzen - drums (w/ Brownman Akoustic Trio)
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ABOUT BROWNMAN ALI | www.Brownman.com
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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. He tirelessly leads 7 unique ensembles of his own including the internationally acclaimed Miles Davis influenced BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO, and the award-winning CRUZAO latin-jazz quintet. 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 having worked with the likes of Guru's Jazzmatazz (replacing Donald Byrd in that primordial ensemble), Jay-z, Missy Elliot, Mos Def, KRS-1, Quincy Jones, Paul Simon, Mingus Dynasty Big Band, Gary Bartz, Chucho Valdes & far too many more to name here. He is considered to be one of the most unique and provocative improvising trumpet players in the nation today and is widely regarded as a vanguard for the evolution of Jazz in Canada. A highly decorated player, his accolades include 2 National Jazz Awards (and 11 nominations over the years), a CBC Galaxie Rising Star award, a SOCAN composers award, Montreal Jazz Fest's "Grand Prix Du Jazz" award, an International Independent Music Award, 3 Toronto Independent Music Awards (& 9 nominations), an induction into the WHO'S WHO IN BLACK CANADA, a BRAVO! channel documentary on his life, NOW magazine naming him "Toronto's Best Jazz Musician", 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".
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:: Official Website -- www.Brownman.com
:: Facebook -- www.FB.Brownman.com
:: Twitter -- www.Twitter.com/BrownmanMusic
:: YouTube -- www.YouTube.Brownman.com
:: Instagram -- www.Instagram.com/BrownmanMusic
:: LinkedIn -- www.LinkedIn.com/in/Brownman
:: MySpace -- www.MySpace.com/BrownmanMusic
:: Gig Schedule -- www.Gigs.Brownman.com
:: Browntasauras Records -- www.Browntasauras.com
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All inquires:
Andrew Nicholson
Publicity & Logistics
Brownman Music Inc. / Browntasauras Records
Brooklyn, New York
[email protected]
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