Internationally acclaimed, 2x National Jazz Award winning trumpet player BROWNMAN ALI (Jay-z, Missy Elliot, Guru's Jazzmatazz, Paul Simon, Quincy Jones) brings his annual Jazz Christmas show to Northumberland! This show is a unique reading of classic holiday tunes by the BROWNMAN AKOUSTIC 4-TET, which features a hand-picked cast of some of Toronto's top-shelf jazz & studio musicians. Each year during the holidays Brownman specially arranges and re-orchestrates many of the quintessential archetypes of the season, with his own unique visions. Don't miss it!
"Insanely brilliant madcap takes on classic Christmas fare" ...
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Internationally acclaimed, 2x National Jazz Award winning trumpet player BROWNMAN ALI (Jay-z, Missy Elliot, Guru's Jazzmatazz, Paul Simon, Quincy Jones) brings his annual Jazz Christmas show to Northumberland! This show is a unique reading of classic holiday tunes by the BROWNMAN AKOUSTIC 4-TET, which features a hand-picked cast of some of Toronto's top-shelf jazz & studio musicians. Each year during the holidays Brownman specially arranges and re-orchestrates many of the quintessential archetypes of the season, with his own unique visions. Don't miss it!
"Insanely brilliant madcap takes on classic Christmas fare"
- NOW MAGAZINE, Toronto
Imagine, if you will:
-- "God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman", as a boom-bap hip-hop track
-- "Frosty the Snowman" with a Cuban Songo twist
-- "We Three Kings", in 4, as an R'n'B tune
-- "Rudolph" as a hard-swinging Coltrane tune
-- "Jingle Bells" in 7/8, like Brubeck might have done it
-- "Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire" as a Brazilian Samba
-- "Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" like a 50's Miles tunes
-- "Do You Hear What I Hear" as down-tempo soul
-- "Silent Night" as a funk ballad
All these and more!
"Holiday cheer interpreted and re-imagined by one of the nation's most acclaimed modern jazz iconoclasts." - BlogTO
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About BROWNMAN ALI
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Trinidadian-born, NYC-schooled & heralded as “Canada’s preeminent Jazz trumpeter” by NYC’s Village Voice, multi-award winning trumpet player Brownman Ali stands at the forefront of innovation in the Canadian jazz community. A protégé to his teacher, Grammy-winning trumpet legend, Randy Brecker, he tirelessly leads 8 unique ensembles of his own including the internationally acclaimed Miles Davis influenced BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO, and the award-winning CRUZAO latin-jazz quintet. In 2009 he launched his own record label: Browntasauras Records, which saw the Electryc Trio's flagship release "Juggernaut" shoot to number 3 on the iTunes USA jazz charts. The label is now a home to all his ensembles and is an incubator for a new generation of forward-minded jazz artists. In high demand in 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 recorded or toured with the likes of Guru's Jazzmatazz (replacing Donald Byrd in that primordial ensemble), Mos Def, KRS-1, Jay-z, Quincy Jones, Paul Simon, Mingus Dynasty Big Band, Gary Bartz, John Scofield, Wayne Shorter, Chucho Valdes & far too many more to name here. Brownman – now splitting his time between Brooklyn, NY and Toronto, is nationally recognized as one of the most unique and provocative improvising trumpet players in North America and is widely regarded as a vanguard for the evolution of Jazz in Canada.
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Fri-Dec-15 -- TORONTO
@ CONTXT (no signage yet, so walk on in)
254 Lansdowne Ave., Toronto
6:30pm - doors
7:30pm - show
$ 20 advance
$ 30 door
$ 15 students / arts workers
Tix: www.eventbrite.com/e/760265022147
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