Celebrate Valentine's Day at Toronto's May Cafe with acclaimed jazz trumpet player Brownman Ali performing only tunes with the word “love” in the title. May Cafe’s usual Vietnamese Tapas menu will be in effect to accompany a feature concert by the BROWNMAN LOVE QUARTET which will showcase Brown teamed with an all-star cast of some of the finest young musicians in the city including Nick Maclean on piano, Jesse Dietschi on bass and Tyler Goertzen on drums. Recently touring Hawaii as a featured soloist, when not performing with Browntasauras Records artists, he is widely known for his bombastic and energized playing style. BUT this is a rare opportunity to see the softer side of Brownman Ali’s abilities this Valentine's Day, as this foursome explore some of the most delicious love-standards in jazz history, playing only tunes with the word "love" in it's title and emphasizing his dark-toned flugelhorn skills. Expect to hear Cole Porter's "Love for Sale" & "I Love You", Jimmy Davis' "Lover Man", Isham Jones' "There Is No Greater Love" and Jimmy Van Heusen's "Like Someone In Love" amongst a long list of classics. ...
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Celebrate Valentine's Day at Toronto's May Cafe with acclaimed jazz trumpet player Brownman Ali performing only tunes with the word “love” in the title. May Cafe’s usual Vietnamese Tapas menu will be in effect to accompany a feature concert by the BROWNMAN LOVE QUARTET which will showcase Brown teamed with an all-star cast of some of the finest young musicians in the city including Nick Maclean on piano, Jesse Dietschi on bass and Tyler Goertzen on drums. Recently touring Hawaii as a featured soloist, when not performing with Browntasauras Records artists, he is widely known for his bombastic and energized playing style. BUT this is a rare opportunity to see the softer side of Brownman Ali’s abilities this Valentine's Day, as this foursome explore some of the most delicious love-standards in jazz history, playing only tunes with the word "love" in it's title and emphasizing his dark-toned flugelhorn skills. Expect to hear Cole Porter's "Love for Sale" & "I Love You", Jimmy Davis' "Lover Man", Isham Jones' "There Is No Greater Love" and Jimmy Van Heusen's "Like Someone In Love" amongst a long list of classics.
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Build your own romantic dinner from May Cafe’s
delicious Vietnamese Tapas menu feat. $7 items!
www.MayToronto.com/Menu to see the full menu!
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A suggested V-day Couples menu :
-- 2 napa salads
-- 4 Tapas menu items to share
-- fried banana dessert
-- 2 May Cafe V-day love potions!
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A Valentine's Day Jazz Concert:
BROWNMAN LOVE QUARTET
Tue-Feb-14 @ May Cafe
876 Dundas St. West, Toronto (Green P parking in back)
(647) 607-2032
[email protected]
Reservations will be given priority seating - email or call.
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3 SEATINGS!
Set 1 @ 7:00pm
Set 2 @ 8:00pm
Set 3 @ 9:00pm
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:: Brownman Ali - trumpet www.Brownman.com
:: Nick Maclean - piano www.NicholasMaclean.com
:: Jesse Dietschi - bass www.JesseDietschi.com
:: Tyler Goertzen - drums
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ABOUT BROWNMAN
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land of Trinidad, & schooled in NYC - is a multiple award-winning NYC-schooled protégé to his teacher, Grammy-winning trumpet legend, Randy Brecker. 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'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, his awards & accolades include 2 National Jazz Awards (with 11 nominations over the years), 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", 2 Toronto Independent Music Awards for "Jazz Artist Of The Year" (7 nominations), a Black Canadian Award nomination for "Jazz Musician 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 has been listed by Air Canada as one of the "Top 10 reasons to visit Toronto".
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