BROWNMAN & ARECIBO Feat. LUIS FRANCO (latin-jazz) at Supermarket

Brownman & ARECIBO feat. Luis Franco (latin-jazz)
Sat-Mar-26, 7:00pm - 10:30pm
$20 door, $15 Adv, $10 arts workers/students
@ Supermarket, 268 Augusta Ave., Toronto
www.SupermarketTO.ca
Tix: www.eventbrite.ca/e/299105792477
FB Event: www.facebook.com/events/1677611419241204
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This exciting Latin-jazz outfit delves deeply into Cuban, Puerto Rican and Brazilian modern jazz traditions, modeled after the New York Latin-jazz spirit of Jerry Gonzalez & The Fort Apache Band and featuring some of Toronto’s most acclaimed jazz and Latin music specialists, all under the direction of 2x National Jazz Award trumpet player BROWNMAN ALI (who also leads the much lauded Latin-jazz group CRUZAO, winners of the Montreal Jazz Fest's "Grand Prix Du Jazz Award"). This performance features multi-faceted, highly in-demand Venezuelan vocalist Luis Franco in the role of featured vocalist. ARECIBO 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. Energized, exploratory and thought-provoking, they are not to be missed!...

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Brownman & ARECIBO feat. Luis Franco (latin-jazz)
Sat-Mar-26, 7:00pm - 10:30pm
$20 door, $15 Adv, $10 arts workers/students
@ Supermarket, 268 Augusta Ave., Toronto
www.SupermarketTO.ca
Tix: www.eventbrite.ca/e/299105792477
FB Event: www.facebook.com/events/1677611419241204
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This exciting Latin-jazz outfit delves deeply into Cuban, Puerto Rican and Brazilian modern jazz traditions, modeled after the New York Latin-jazz spirit of Jerry Gonzalez & The Fort Apache Band and featuring some of Toronto’s most acclaimed jazz and Latin music specialists, all under the direction of 2x National Jazz Award trumpet player BROWNMAN ALI (who also leads the much lauded Latin-jazz group CRUZAO, winners of the Montreal Jazz Fest's "Grand Prix Du Jazz Award"). This performance features multi-faceted, highly in-demand Venezuelan vocalist Luis Franco in the role of featured vocalist. ARECIBO 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. Energized, exploratory and thought-provoking, they are not to be missed!
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www.Arecibo.Brownman.com for more info.
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:: Brownman Ali - trumpet (Trinidad)
:: Nick Maclean - piano (Canada)
:: Paco Luviano - bass (Mexico)
:: Frank Martinez - drums (Cuba)
:: with Special Guest
:: Luis Franco - vocals (Venezeula)
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ABOUT BROWNMAN ALI:
www.Brownman.com
An internationally acclaimed trumpet player, Brownman Ali is heralded by the NY Village Voice as "Canada's preeminent jazz trumpet player", and is best known as the last trumpet soloist for legendary jazz-hip-hop outfit Guru's Jazzmatazz (replacing Donald Byrd in this iconic group). When not leading 8 groups of his own (including the National Jazz Award winning BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO and Montreal Jazz Fest's "Grand Prix du Jazz" winners CRUZAO), he is also a highly in-demand studio session musician having appeared on over 300 recordings to date, and is the CEO of the Brooklyn-based Browntasauras Records label. www.Browntasauras.com
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Presented by The BEAT Network & Browntasauras Records with FACTOR funding.

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