BROWNMAN PLAYS MILES -- 5pm: lecture on Miles Davis, 7pm: Brownman Akoustic 4-tet, Victoria, BC

Schedule

Tue May 07 2024 at 05:00 pm

Location

James Bay United Church | Victoria, BC

Tues Night Jazz At The Church presents::
BROWNMAN PLAY MILES
Tue-May-07 -- 5pm lecture, 7pm concert
@ James Bay United
511 Michigan St. Victoria, BC
$20 at the door (no advance tix)
"Internationally acclaimed jazz trumpet playing iconoclast BROWNMAN ALI will give a 5pm talk on the life of the ubiquitous MILES DAVIS followed by a 7pm concert focusing on Miles' work from 1944 to 1969."
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"Brownman Ali ... one of the greatest interpreters of Miles Davis' work in Canada today".
-- Hamilton Spectator
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1) The LIFE OF MILES -- by Brownman Ali
5:00pm: In this 1.5 hour lecture, Brownman will take you on a journey through the extraordinary career of the great Miles Davis' from his early years in St. Louis in the 40's dreaming about playing with Charlie Parker, right up to his death in 1991, with audio samples indicative of each the many times Miles' changed direction -- and had the world follow.
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2) BROWNMAN ALI PLAYS MILES DAVIS -- 1944 to 1969
7:00pm: A special Victoria, BC permutation of the BROWNMAN AKOUSTIC 4-TET will take the stage, led by Brownman Ali on trumpet, who has handpicked tunes Miles made famous between 1944 and 1969. You'll hear samplings of Miles' tenure with Charlie Parker, tunes from his time on the Prestige label with the 1st Great Quintet, through to Kind of Blue, and onward into the 2nd Great Quintet. "We'd need a whole week to get through all the various incredible twists and turns of Miles' long career, so tonight we're just going to focus on this 20-ish year segment", states Ali.
:: Brownman Ali - trumpet (Brooklyn / Toronto)
:: Brent Jarvis - piano (Victoria)
:: Ken Lister - bass (Victoria)
:: Kelby MacNayr - drums (Victoria)
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About BROWNMAN ALI
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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
A recent 2024 JUNO Award nominee and 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 Brooklyn, NY and Toronto, ON, 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 Brooklyn. 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", 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".

Where is it happening?

James Bay United Church, 511 Michigan St, Victoria, BC V8V 1S1, Canada,Victoria, British Columbia

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Host or Publisher Brownman

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