Brownman’s HALLOWEEN THRILLER
October 22 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
$10 – $20
Michael Jackson’s THRILLER re-imagined through the lens of electric-jazz (GRAMMY long-listers & 2x National Jazz Award winners from Brooklyn, NY) Live 7-10pm $10 for Students under 18 years old. $20 for Adults. ***PLEASE NOTE THE PRICE DROP***
Brownman Ali – electric trumpet (Brooklyn, NY)
Nick Maclean – keyboards (Toronto, ON)
Josh Warren – 6-string electric bass (Victoria, BC)
Miles Johnson – drums (Toronto, ON)
Acclaimed multi-award winning jazz / hip-hop trumpet player BROWNMAN ALI will once again lead an all-star quartet through his popular annual HALLOWEEN THRILLER concert, this year travelling to various venues across Southern Ontario. The much lauded BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO + 1 will perform the entire Michael Jackson “Thriller” recording, interpreted and re-worked in the Miles Davis-esque fashion this multiple National Jazz Award winning improviser has become known for. In addition to the quartet performing Thriller top to bottom, other MJ classics will be featured through the night for this unique Halloween jazz party series. Costumes and Thriller video dance moves encouraged.
BROWNMAN ALI is a multi-JUNO Award winner, GRAMMY long-lister, 2x National Jazz Award winner, 10x Global Music Award winner, 7x Toronto Music Award winner and — now splitting his time between Brooklyn, NY and Toronto, ON — has been heralded as “Canada’s preeminent jazz trumpet player” by the New York Village Voice. He has toured and recorded with the likes of Guru’s Jazzmatazz, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, KRS-One, Big Daddy Kane, Jay-z, Kanye West, Missy Elliot, Paul Simon and Quincy Jones.
This show features as its “+1” acclaimed keyboardist NICK MACLEAN, a rising star in Toronto’s jazz community, signee to Brownman’s Browntasauras Records label & winner of 10 Global Music Awards, standing alongside 2 of Toronto’s most in demand musicians : SEAN DENNIS on bass (called a “once in a generation bassist” by the bass dept. head at Humber College) , and ADAM MANSFIELD on drums (26-year old drumset phenom), all under the direction of modern jazz trumpet iconoclast BROWNMAN ALI
*** 22 year olds JOSH WARREN on bass & MILES JOHNSON on drums will be subbing occasionally, when the 1st Unit players are unavailable.”
Delving so deeply into that record always leaves us speechless”, states Ali. “Michael birthed so many incredible tunes over the years, but his collaborations with Quincy Jones on Thriller has to be one of the most towering musical achievements in pop music ever. Using that brilliant material every year on Halloween, as jump-offs for what we do makes for a party that’s both danceable, but still rooted in exploratory improvising and deep reaching solos. We approach it the way Miles might have.”
The BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO has won 2 National Jazz Awards, 3 Toronto Independent Music Awards for “Jazz Group of the Year”, a SOCAN music award, a CBC Galaxie Rising Star Award, and an International Independent Music Award for “Jazz-Funk album of the year” for the album “Gravitation”, which hit number 4 on the iTunes USA jazz charts and was GRAMMY Award long-listed upon its release.
“Awards are nice, naturally, but to dig what Brownman is doing, you’ve got to see him live. I had a chance to do just that over the summer when Brownman fronted his killer trio … I came away with a blown mind. This guy’s got chops galore, soul to match, and a sense of phrasing that recalls many of the greats, but suggests itself to be his own.” -The Buffalo News
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