BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO | Music Matters Summer Concert Series
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The Music Matters Summer Concert Series is so very proud to present this $FREE show featuring 2x National Jazz Award winners for "electric jazz group of the year" : the BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO, up from Brooklyn, NY and whom NPR (National Public Radio) in New York City has called "the new standard in electric-jazz" and lead by internationally acclaimed jazz trumpet iconoclast BROWNMAN ALI.
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BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO -- special NY state permutation!
:: Brownman Ali - electric trumpet (Brooklyn, NY)
:: Colin Brydalski - electric bass (Buffalo, NY)
:: Aaron Staebell - drums (Rochester, NY)
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“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.”
-- Jeff Miers, Buffalo News
"Colliding Black American Music traditions (hip-hop, soul, funk, r'n'b) with blazing virtuosic jazz improvising, this unique trio sounds relevant in today’s musical paradigm, while still speaking to the history of the jazz tradition ... this is the kind of music Miles Davis would be making today"
-- AllAboutJazz
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About BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO | www.ElectrycTrio.Brownman.com
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In recent years, when not touring the globe the Brooklyn based multi-award-winning Trinidadian-born trumpet player BROWNMAN ALI -- the last trumpet player for iconic jazz-hip-hop group Guru's Jazzmatazz -- spends much of his artistic time in the exploration of modern “chordless” jazz -> music produced without a chordal instrument (guitar or keyboard). He had previously explored this tonal quality for a decade with his highly lauded latin-jazz group CRUZAO, and more recently with his heavily decorated & now internationally acclaimed Miles Davis influenced BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO. Taking a similar trajectory as the acclaimed 2009 debut release "Juggernaut", this highly energized bombastic trio’s 2013 sophomore release “Gravitation: A Study In Freefall” -- on Brownman’s own label Browntasauras Records -- shot to number 4 on the iTunes USA jazz charts and was declared “the new standard in electric-jazz” by National Public Radio (NPR) in New York City. Among a long list of awards & accolades, the trio's album "Gravitation" was GRAMMY long-listed, and they would win an International Independent Music Award for "Jazz-Funk Album of the Year", 3 Toronto Independent Music Awards for "Jazz Group of the Year" and a National Jazz Award for "electric jazz group of the year".
“The trio folds aspects of Black American Music into a chordless jazz framework”, states Brownman. “When we’re not playing originals, we often take classic standards from the 30s through the 50s and re-imagine them as if they were written today and being produced by, say, DJ Premier. The end result is something that hopefully sounds relevant in today’s musical paradigm, but still resonates with the history and lineage of the jazz tradition. And yeah - you’ll hear a lot of Miles Davis’ influence in that resulting sound”.
The ensemble itself is aptly described by CODA magazine: “Brownman’s powerful electrified trio captures the essence of the later years in Miles Davis’ life, his electric period, without imitation. Brownman’s ELECTRYC TRIO is uniquely his own, yet echoes with the sounds of ‘Bitches Brew’ and ‘In a Silent Way’ right down to Miles’ use of electronics while still managing to stay grounded in the sounds of today. Clearly paying apt tribute to Brownman’s NYC mentor Randy Brecker, they are a truly impressive and energized modern jazz outfit.”
Visit www.ElectrycTrio.Brownman.com for more info (including legacy videos!)
Hear them on Spotify or YouTube Music: www.Spotify.Browntasauras.com or www.YouTube.Browntasauras.com
“Brownman’s powerful electrified trio captures the essence of the later years in Miles Davis’ life, his electric period, without imitation. Brownman’s ELECTRYC TRIO is uniquely his own, yet echoes with the sounds of ‘Bitches Brew’ and ‘In a Silent Way’ right down to Miles’ use of electronics while still managing to stay grounded in the sounds of today. Clearly paying apt tribute to Brownman’s NYC mentor Randy Brecker, they are a truly impressive and energized modern jazz outfit.”
-- CODA magazine
"Brownman's Electryc Trio is lively, entertaining and hip ... the atmosphere is seriously funky ... the music's muscular and quick, much of it thrilling..."
-- Whole Note Magazine
"Brownman is the real deal... this abundantly talented young musician was handpicked by the late MC Guru to blow the sinewy lines that made his Jazzmatazz project such a groundbreaking hybrid of jazz and hip-hop... with each appearance the buzz surrounding the bold and electric Brownman style has grown in amplitude."
-- Art Voice Magazine
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About BROWNMAN ALI
www.Brownman.com
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"One of the next great voices in the new generation of jazz improvisers”
-- Randy Brecker, legendary 14x Grammy winning trumpet icon
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. Now splitting his time between Toronto, ON and Brooklyn, NY, 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. All these ensembles record under Brownman's own much lauded BROWNTASAURAS RECORDS label, established in 2009. 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 worked with the likes of Guru's Jazzmatazz (replacing Donald Byrd in that primordial ensemble), Mos Def, KRS-1, Quincy Jones, Paul Simon, Jay-z, Missy Elliot, 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, Brownman's awards & accolades include a recent JUNO Award nomination for "Jazz Album Of The Year", being GRAMMY long-listed, 2 National Jazz Awards (with 11 nominations over the years), 10 Global Music Awards, the Montreal Jazz Fest's "Grand Prix Du Jazz" award, a CBC Galaxie Rising Star award, a SOCAN composers award, an International Independent Music Award for "Album of the Year", Toronto Independent Music Award for "jazz artist of the year" (13 nominations & 7 TIMAs in total), a Black Canadian Award nomination for "Jazz Musician of the Year", a Black IMPACT Award for "Artist of the Year", a Caribbean Arts & Entertainment Award nomination for "Jazz Artist of the Year", 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", NPR in New York calls him "the new standard in electric jazz", the Trinidad & Tobago Consulate General awarded him with a citation for being a "Distinguished National of Trinidad", and was once listed by Air Canada's In-Flight magazine as "one of the Top 10 reasons to visit Toronto".
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LINKS : www.Links.Brownman.com
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Official Brownman Website: www.Brownman.com
Gig Schedule: www.Gigs.Brownman.com
Browntasauras Records (label): www.Browntasauras.com
Facebook: www.FB.Brownman.com
Twitter: www.Twitter.com/BrownmanMusic
Instagram: www.Instagram.com/BrownmanMusic
BandsInTown: www.BandsInTown.com/BrownmanAli
Spotify: www.Spotify.Browntasauras.com (entire B.R. catalog)
YouTube Music: www.YouTube.Browntasauras.com (entire B.R. catalog)
YouTube Videos: www.YouTube.Brownman.com
MySpace: www.MySpace.com/BrownmanMusic
LinkedIn: www.LinkedIn.com/in/Brownman
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BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO -- special NY state permutation!
:: Brownman Ali - electric trumpet (Brooklyn, NY)
:: Colin Brydalski - electric bass (Buffalo, NY)
:: Aaron Staebell - drums (Rochester, NY)
----
“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.”
-- Jeff Miers, Buffalo News
"Colliding Black American Music traditions (hip-hop, soul, funk, r'n'b) with blazing virtuosic jazz improvising, this unique trio sounds relevant in today’s musical paradigm, while still speaking to the history of the jazz tradition ... this is the kind of music Miles Davis would be making today"
-- AllAboutJazz
=============
About BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO | www.ElectrycTrio.Brownman.com
=============
In recent years, when not touring the globe the Brooklyn based multi-award-winning Trinidadian-born trumpet player BROWNMAN ALI -- the last trumpet player for iconic jazz-hip-hop group Guru's Jazzmatazz -- spends much of his artistic time in the exploration of modern “chordless” jazz -> music produced without a chordal instrument (guitar or keyboard). He had previously explored this tonal quality for a decade with his highly lauded latin-jazz group CRUZAO, and more recently with his heavily decorated & now internationally acclaimed Miles Davis influenced BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO. Taking a similar trajectory as the acclaimed 2009 debut release "Juggernaut", this highly energized bombastic trio’s 2013 sophomore release “Gravitation: A Study In Freefall” -- on Brownman’s own label Browntasauras Records -- shot to number 4 on the iTunes USA jazz charts and was declared “the new standard in electric-jazz” by National Public Radio (NPR) in New York City. Among a long list of awards & accolades, the trio's album "Gravitation" was GRAMMY long-listed, and they would win an International Independent Music Award for "Jazz-Funk Album of the Year", 3 Toronto Independent Music Awards for "Jazz Group of the Year" and a National Jazz Award for "electric jazz group of the year".
“The trio folds aspects of Black American Music into a chordless jazz framework”, states Brownman. “When we’re not playing originals, we often take classic standards from the 30s through the 50s and re-imagine them as if they were written today and being produced by, say, DJ Premier. The end result is something that hopefully sounds relevant in today’s musical paradigm, but still resonates with the history and lineage of the jazz tradition. And yeah - you’ll hear a lot of Miles Davis’ influence in that resulting sound”.
The ensemble itself is aptly described by CODA magazine: “Brownman’s powerful electrified trio captures the essence of the later years in Miles Davis’ life, his electric period, without imitation. Brownman’s ELECTRYC TRIO is uniquely his own, yet echoes with the sounds of ‘Bitches Brew’ and ‘In a Silent Way’ right down to Miles’ use of electronics while still managing to stay grounded in the sounds of today. Clearly paying apt tribute to Brownman’s NYC mentor Randy Brecker, they are a truly impressive and energized modern jazz outfit.”
Visit www.ElectrycTrio.Brownman.com for more info (including legacy videos!)
Hear them on Spotify or YouTube Music: www.Spotify.Browntasauras.com or www.YouTube.Browntasauras.com
“Brownman’s powerful electrified trio captures the essence of the later years in Miles Davis’ life, his electric period, without imitation. Brownman’s ELECTRYC TRIO is uniquely his own, yet echoes with the sounds of ‘Bitches Brew’ and ‘In a Silent Way’ right down to Miles’ use of electronics while still managing to stay grounded in the sounds of today. Clearly paying apt tribute to Brownman’s NYC mentor Randy Brecker, they are a truly impressive and energized modern jazz outfit.”
-- CODA magazine
"Brownman's Electryc Trio is lively, entertaining and hip ... the atmosphere is seriously funky ... the music's muscular and quick, much of it thrilling..."
-- Whole Note Magazine
"Brownman is the real deal... this abundantly talented young musician was handpicked by the late MC Guru to blow the sinewy lines that made his Jazzmatazz project such a groundbreaking hybrid of jazz and hip-hop... with each appearance the buzz surrounding the bold and electric Brownman style has grown in amplitude."
-- Art Voice Magazine
=============
About BROWNMAN ALI
www.Brownman.com
=============
"One of the next great voices in the new generation of jazz improvisers”
-- Randy Brecker, legendary 14x Grammy winning trumpet icon
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. Now splitting his time between Toronto, ON and Brooklyn, NY, 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. All these ensembles record under Brownman's own much lauded BROWNTASAURAS RECORDS label, established in 2009. 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 worked with the likes of Guru's Jazzmatazz (replacing Donald Byrd in that primordial ensemble), Mos Def, KRS-1, Quincy Jones, Paul Simon, Jay-z, Missy Elliot, 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, Brownman's awards & accolades include a recent JUNO Award nomination for "Jazz Album Of The Year", being GRAMMY long-listed, 2 National Jazz Awards (with 11 nominations over the years), 10 Global Music Awards, the Montreal Jazz Fest's "Grand Prix Du Jazz" award, a CBC Galaxie Rising Star award, a SOCAN composers award, an International Independent Music Award for "Album of the Year", Toronto Independent Music Award for "jazz artist of the year" (13 nominations & 7 TIMAs in total), a Black Canadian Award nomination for "Jazz Musician of the Year", a Black IMPACT Award for "Artist of the Year", a Caribbean Arts & Entertainment Award nomination for "Jazz Artist of the Year", 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", NPR in New York calls him "the new standard in electric jazz", the Trinidad & Tobago Consulate General awarded him with a citation for being a "Distinguished National of Trinidad", and was once listed by Air Canada's In-Flight magazine as "one of the Top 10 reasons to visit Toronto".
=============
LINKS : www.Links.Brownman.com
=============
Official Brownman Website: www.Brownman.com
Gig Schedule: www.Gigs.Brownman.com
Browntasauras Records (label): www.Browntasauras.com
Facebook: www.FB.Brownman.com
Twitter: www.Twitter.com/BrownmanMusic
Instagram: www.Instagram.com/BrownmanMusic
BandsInTown: www.BandsInTown.com/BrownmanAli
Spotify: www.Spotify.Browntasauras.com (entire B.R. catalog)
YouTube Music: www.YouTube.Browntasauras.com (entire B.R. catalog)
YouTube Videos: www.YouTube.Brownman.com
MySpace: www.MySpace.com/BrownmanMusic
LinkedIn: www.LinkedIn.com/in/Brownman
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