Name: Brownman's HOLIDAY MADNESS (Hamilton) - Xmas tunes re-interpreted
Start: 2021-12-17T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2021-12-17T22:00:00-05:00
Location: People Under the Staircase

Brownman's HOLIDAY MADNESS (Hamilton) - Xmas tunes re-interpreted

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Holiday cheer re-imagined & interpreted by one of the nation's most acclaimed jazz iconoclasts and his award-winning musicians.

People Under the Staircase

<h1>Brownman Akoustic 4-tet&#x27;s</h1><h1>HOLIDAY MADNESS</h1>( JAZZ CHRISTMAS CONCERT )Internationally acclaimed jazz trumpet player Brownman Ali&#x27;s Jazz Christmas show is a unique reading of classic holiday tunes by the BROWNMAN AKOUSTIC 4-TET, which features a hand-picked cast of some of Toronto&#x27;s top-shelf jazz &amp; studio musicians. Each year during the holidays Brownman specially arranges and re-orchestrates many of the quintessential archetypes of the season, with his own unique visions.Imagine, if you will:-- &quot;God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman&quot;, as a boom-bap hip-hop track-- &quot;Frosty the Snowman&quot; with a Cuban Songo twist-- &quot;We Three Kings&quot;, in 4, as an R&#x27;n&#x27;B tune-- &quot;Rudolph&quot; as a hard-swinging Coltrane tune-- &quot;Jingle Bells&quot; in 7/8, like Brubeck might have done it-- &quot;Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire&quot; as a Brazilian Samba-- &quot;Mommy Kissing Santa Claus&quot; like a 50&#x27;s Miles tunes-- &quot;Do You Hear What I Hear&quot; as down-tempo soul-- &quot;Silent Night&quot; as a funk balladAll these and more!Holiday cheer interpreted and re-imagined by one of the nation&#x27;s most acclaimed modern jazz iconoclasts.======================================Fri-Dec-17, 7-10pm@ Staircase Theatre (People Under The Staircase), Hamilton27 Dundurn St N, Hamilton, ON L8R 3C9www.PeopleUnderTheStaircase.com======================================BROWNMAN AKOUSTIC 4-TET is::: Brownman Ali - trumpet:: Jeremy Hucal - keyboard:: Bennet Young - bass:: Riley O&#x27;Connor - drums======================================ABOUT BROWNMAN | www.Brownman.com======================================&quot;One of the next great voices in the new generation of jazz improvisers”-- Randy Brecker, legendary 14x Grammy winning trumpet iconHeralded as “Canada’s preeminent Jazz trumpeter” by NYC’s Village Voice, Brownman Ali - born on the small Caribbean island of Trinidad, &amp; schooled in NYC - is a multiple award-winning NYC-schooled protégé to his teacher, Grammy-winning trumpet legend, Randy Brecker. Splitting his time between Toronto and New York, he tirelessly leads 7 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&#x27;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&#x27;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 &amp; 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&#x27;s awards &amp; accolades include 2 National Jazz Awards (with 11 nominations over the years), Montreal Jazz Fest&#x27;s &quot;Grand Prix Du Jazz&quot; award, a CBC Galaxie Rising Star award, a SOCAN composers award, an International Independent Music Award for &quot;Album of the Year&quot;, 3 Toronto Independent Music Award &quot;jazz artist of the year&quot; (8 nominations), a Black Canadian Award nomination for &quot;Jazz Musician of the Year&quot;, a Caribbean Arts &amp; Entertainment Award nomination for &quot;Jazz Artist of the Year&quot;, an induction into the WHO&#x27;S WHO IN BLACK CANADA, a BRAVO! channel documentary on his life, NOW magazine naming him &quot;Toronto&#x27;s Best Jazz Musician&quot;, CBC Radio Canada named him &quot;one of the most recorded trumpet players in Canadian history&quot;, NPR in New York calls him &quot;the new standard in electric jazz&quot;, the Trinidad &amp; Tobago Consulate General awarded him with a citation for being a &quot;Distinguished National of Trinidad&quot;, and was once listed by Air Canada&#x27;s In-Flight magazine as &quot;one of the Top 10 reasons to visit Toronto&quot;.

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