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-- 15-man Latin-Jazz-Urban
Orchestra --
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6 jazz horns |
3 latin percussionists |
2 hip-hop rappers |
2 latin vocalists |
2 funk bassists |
Fri June 30,
2006 @ Toronto Jazz Festival - mainstage at
Nathan Philips Square
Fri July 07,
2006 @ Montreal Jazz Festival - mainstage
at Contact Stage
Fri July 28,
2006 @ Jazz By Genre's "Latin/Brazilian Night",
Mod Club, Toronto
See
Press Release from May 27, 2005 Distilleary Jazz Fest concert
See full colour band
bio
3.1
meg high-res JPG file
Live
From The
2004
Distillery Jazz Festival
All
tracks composed
&
orchestrated
by
Nick "Brownman" Ali
Sao
Jrel
(whole
tune!! including intros)
featuring 3 improvising
rappers:
Enlight,
Phatt Al, N.I.Gel
&
bari solo by Rich
Underhill
15.1
meg | 16min, 10sec
It's
really worth listening to all of it.
Mediodia
Del
Medioevo
(whole
tune!!)
featuring 3 improvising
rappers:
Enlight,
Phatt Al, N.I.Gel
&
improvised Salsa vocals by
Alex
Naar
6.5
meg | 7min, 0sec
Perdido
En La
Cuevas
Azul - 1
(Intro
& Melody)
1.5 meg | 1min,40sec
Perdido
En La
Cuevas
Azul - 2
(End
of Bone Solo & Horn Mambo)
533 kb | 34sec
Perdido
En La
Cuevas
Azul - 3
(Final
Melody to end of tune)
1.3 meg | 1min,21sec
El
Hermitano
(Intro
bass dueling & Melody)
5.7 meg | 6min, 2sec
featuring the dueling basses
of
Andrew
Stewart & Marc Rogers
Two
Clear Nights
(Intro)
1.4 meg | 1min, 28sec
featuring the Monster Horns
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Normally
CRUZAO
- Trinidadian born jazz trumpeter Nick "Brownman" Ali's award-winning latin-jazz
outfit - is a 5-man group. This special large permutation of the
group was conceived in 2004 for 4 feature performances at the Distillery
Jazz Festival in Toronto. Brownman has written*
intricate 15-man large ensemble orchestrations for this MONSTROUSO
unit (affectionately refered to by it's members as "The Monster").
The group features a 6 piece horn section, 2 monster bass players(!), 2
acclaimed latin vocalists, 3 percussionists and 2 of Canada's finest freestyle
rappers - enlight (of GRUVASYLUM fame) and the luminous
PHATT
al, all - like the original CRUZAO - still in a chordless latin-jazz
setting - with no piano and no guitar.
*Brownman
was awarded the 2002 Canadian National Composer of the Year Award
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A one of kind
big band.
A latin-jazz-urban
orchestra.
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CRUZAO GRUPO
MONSTRUOSO
amalgamates
authentic latin
rhythms
jazz harmonies
urban ideology
and big band
lineage
in a chordless setting.
(CRUZAO
was recently named by New York University's
jazz
department as the first chordless latin-jazz group in history)
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"...latin-jazz-funk
- monstrously joyfully, energetically big..."
-
NOW Magazine
"...a one of a kind
big band..."
-
Toronto Star
"... four concepts
so smoothly mixed by this young fearless jazz leader..."
-
Toronto Hispanos
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. . THE MONSTRUOSOS . . .
     
      
Photos by Thane Lucas
11"x14" printable stageplot JPG
(186kb) or PDF file (160kb)
"Justin
Time Recording Artist Nick "Brownman" Ali & CRUZAO have achieved much
in the Canadian jazz community to date including being awarded the 2002
Canadian National Jazz Award for "Composer of the Year", NJA nominations
in 2002, 2003 & 2004 for "Electric Group of the Year", and 2003 "Trumpet
Player of the Year". This group has also been awarded the Montreal
Jazz Festival's coveted "Grand Prix du Jazz" award, CBC Galaxie's Rising
Star award and has been recently nominated for the "Canadian Music Independent
Artist award". The group's debut CD "Shades of Brown" (Justin Time
Records 2002) spent 3 months as number 1 on the college and community radio
stations Canada-wide upon it's release and, along with Jane Bunnett, are
one of the only Canadian latin-jazz recordings recognized in New York City.
CRUZAO was recently named by New York Univerity as the first "chordless
latin-jazz group in history" and is now used as a historical example in
the institute's curriculum by noted NYU teacher and latin percussionist
Memo Acevedo." - Scott McLaren, Jazz
critic
The
band that started it all! -- The original 5-piece version of CRUZAO
"Shades
Of Brown" on JUSTIN TIME Records!
Buy
it online directly from
Justin Time Records!
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Nick
'Brownman' Ali &
CRUZAO GRUPO
MONSTRUOSO
Poster
The
Debut of the Monster
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Nick
Ali - winner of the 2002 National Jazz Award for "Jazz
Composer Of The Year"
(for
the all-original tunes written for "Shades Of Brown")
CRUZAO
- Winner of the coveted
2001
Montreal Jazz Festival's "Grand Prix du Jazz" Award
CRUZAO
- Winner of the 2001 CBC Galaxie "Rising Star" Award
CRUZAO
- 2001, 2002, 2003 National Jazz Award nominee for "Electric
Jazz Group Of The Year"
Nick
Ali - 2001 nominee for "Jazz
Trumpet Player Of The Year"
CRUZAO
- 2004 Canadian Independant Music Award nominee for
"Alternative
Latin Group of the Year"
All charts and midi files for CRUZAO GRUPO
MONSTRUOSO
are now online in PDF format!
Monster
Charts
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