Brownman Ali

BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO Fri-Jul-11 -- Part 1 -- "Electric Standards" Fri-Jul-18 -- Part 2 -- "Electric Standards" TICKETS: www.eventbrite.com/e/1462321696559 @ CONTXT, 254 Lansdowne Ave, Toronto 7:00pm each night | $20 adv / $25 at the door / $15 students & Arts Workers (*** 2nd Set open to horn players wishing to jam with these award-winning artists) ---- Over 2 electrifying Fridays at CONTXT in Toronto, 2x National Jazz Award winning and GRAMMY long-listed electric-jazz powerhouse BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO will explore Great American Songbook standards from the 1930's through the 1960's, but re-imagined through the lens of Brooklyn NY electric-jazz... as Miles Davis might have done. You won't want to miss this multi-award-winning modern groove-jazz trio re-envisioning classic jazz, as they prepare to hit to studios and record some of these re-inventions. www.eventbrite.com/e/1462321696559 About BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO This powerful threesome combines virtuosic performance skills with a deep knowledge of the jazz lineage, all set against an urban sonic backdrop. 2x National Jazz Award winners BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO is an electric-jazz powerhouse colliding Black American Music artforms (hip-hop, funk, soul, r’n’b, jungle) with jazz narratives, extrapolating the ideologies of Miles Davis & Randy Brecker, their chart-topping albums “Juggernaut” and “Gravitation” capturing this energy perfectly. ---- About BROWNMAN ALI The BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO is led by internationally acclaimed Brooklyn, NY based jazz iconoclast Brownman Ali — a protege of trumpet legend Randy Brecker — is the current touring trumpet player for hip-hop icons Jay-Z, Kanye West, and Missy Elliot, who was just nominated for a 2024 JUNO award for “Jazz Album of the Year”, after already winning Canada’s Black IMPACT Award (the first jazz musician in history to win this), and has been called “Canada’s preeminent jazz trumpet player” by the New York Village Voice, “the new standard in electric jazz” by NPR, New York (National Public Radio), and “one of the most exploratory voices in jazz trumpet today” by the Chicago Tribune. Brownman is also the CEO of Browntasauras Records in Brooklyn, NY, home to the 8 groups he leads and artists he has mentored and produced, where the label’s mandate is to “catalyze the creation of new jazz art”, and where 100% of all proceeds go directly back to the Artists on the label.