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BROWNMAN MUSIC INC.& BROWNTASAURAS RECORDS proudly presents the 2026 Edition of: . FIVE WEEKS FOR MILES 5 Saturdays... 5 Quintets... 5 Eras of Miles Davis... -- CELEBRATING 100 YEARS OF MILES --  Week 1 - May 02 - "Young Miles" - The Bird Years .
All SHOWS ARE FIRST COME FIRST SERVE SO ARRIVE EARLY TO ENSURE OPTIMAL SEATING Please email miles@brownman.com if you have questions. ---- 100 years after Miles Davis was born, in 2026 there are 5 Saturdays in May. Every Saturday multi-award winning trumpet player BROWNMAN will lead 5 different all-star ensembles through 5 historic eras of jazz which Miles Davis catalyzed & immortalized with his presence. ----  Brownman,
when asked about the tribute and the musicians behind the music, states,
"For
those who appreciate jazz as a true art form, FIVE WEEKS FOR MILES represents
a rare opportunity to understand its greatest legend's career, where he
could have gone and a reminder of what he might have meant to us today.
I'm truly honoured to be fronting this sequential tribute and performing
with such a monsterous cross-section of players."
Brownman has put together a spectacular all-star cast for his production
featuring everyone from award-winning Canadian jazz veterans Duncan
Hopkins, Ross MacIntyre &
Frank Botos, to luminaries in their own generation
such as Nick Maclean, Jacob Wutzke &
Bennett
Young to the best of the youngest new breed
of jazz modernists like James Griffith, Joel
Bracken & Tymish
Koznarsky (all 24 years old). This year
will also feature in Week 5 acclaimed rapper N.I.Gel
(from the POCKET DWELLERS), internationally acclaimed turntablist Erik
Laar (Off Centre DJ School founder) teamed
with the BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRO bass & drumset phenoms Sean
Dennis & Adam
Mansfield -- making the Week 5 ensemble an
all-star jazz-hip-hop affair. "Whatever
age, whatever background, whatever colour - we're all going to be giving
all of ourselves over to Miles’ music… to try and do the man and his vision
justice”, Brownman concludes.
"Brownman Ali
... one of the greatest
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Week
1
- Sat May 2
"Young Miles" - The Bird Years 
At 17 years of age Miles would travel across the river from his home in East St. Louis, Illinois to St. Louis, Missouri to hear well-known jazz musicians play in clubs. Mesmerized by their talent and style, he would listen to their all night jam sessions until Charlie "Bird" Parker arrived in St. Louis with the Billy Eckstine Band in 1944. Bird was the creative force behind a new form of jazz later to be dubbed "bebop" and the young Miles would become fascinated with its complex melodic and harmonic structure leading Miles to follow Bird across the country until he was allowed to substitute for his trumpet player at the time - Dizzy Gillespie. His tenure as Bird's sideman would most exemplify this hard-swinging period of his life. -- :: Brownman Ali - trumpet (National Jazz Award winner) :: Tymish Koznarsky - alto sax (24 year old next gen monster) :: Scott Metcalfe - piano (Jordana Talsky) :: Ross MacIntyre - upright bass (Matt Dusk) :: Morgan Childs - drums (Donnybrook) -- CLICK to buy Week 1 tickets online or buy an All-Shows Pass (All 5 shows for 1 low price)
Week
2
- Sat May 9
Week
3
- Sat May 16
Week
4
- Sat May 23
Week
5
- Sat May 30
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Posters:
About
BROWNMAN | www.Brownman.com
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 recorded or toured with the likes of Guru's Jazzmatazz (replacing Donald Byrd in that primordial ensemble), Mos Def, KRS-1, Jay-Z, Quincy Jones, Paul Simon, Mingus Dynasty Big Band, Gary Bartz, John Scofield, Wayne Shorter, Chucho Valdes & far too many more to name here. Brownman is nationally recognized as one of the most unique and provocative improvising trumpet players in the nation and is widely regarded as a vanguard for the evolution of Jazz in Canada. A highly decorated artist, his accolades include being GRAMMY Award long-listed (with Brownman Electryc Trio), multiple JUNO Award nominations included a 2024 "jazz album of the year" nom (with the Nick Maclean Quartet), 2 National Jazz Awards (11 nominations over the years), 10 Global Music Awards, a CBC Galaxie Rising Star award, a SOCAN composers award, Montreal Jazz Fest's "Grand Prix Du Jazz" award, 7 Toronto Independent Music Award (& 16 nominations), an International Independent Music Award (presented by Herbie Hancock), a Black IMPACT Award, a Black Canadian Award, 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", the Trinidad & Tobago Consulate General awarded him with a citation for being a "Distinguished National of Trinidad", and was once listed by Air Canada as one of the "Top 10 reasons to visit Toronto". As evidenced by almost 800,000 visits to his website, Brownman has evolved from Canadian jazz icon to worldwide phenomenon -- catapulted by 3.5 years of touring the globe as the featured soloist with the legendary rapper Guru and his seminal jazz-hiphop band Jazzmatazz (until the great man’s tragic passing in April 2010). Driven by the desire to push and expand the boundaries of jazz composition and musicianship -- and the perceptions people have of what jazz music is and can be -- Browman is a proud torchbearer to the tradition of fearless exploration represented by immortals such as Miles Davis, Freddie Hubbard, his own mentor Randy Brecker, John Coltrane, and Wayne Shorter. Brownman also holds
a degree in physics, a minor in philosophy, writes the brass column for
Canadian Musician Magazine and is an often called upon international lecturer
and clinician on such topics as "advanced jazz harmony", "hip-hop and the
modern jazz improviser" & "latin rhythms for the jazz improviser".
Awards:
Quotes:
“Brownman... Canada’s
preeminent
jazz trumpeter.”
"Brownman... one
of the next great voices in the new generation of jazz improvisers..."
"Brownman is the real deal... this abundantly
talented young musician was handpicked by the late MC Guru to blow the
sinewy lines that made his Jazzmatazz project such a groundbreaking hybrid
of jazz and hip-hop... with each appearance the buzz surrounding the bold
and electric Brownman style has grown in amplitude."
"Brownman... the
most versatile hornman in Canada"
"... virtuostic,
energized and in the spirit of Miles Davis"
"Brownman... a
truly gifted improviser with an original creative voice..."
"Brownman... uniquely
creative and fearless - like a young Miles Davis."
"lively, entertaining
and hip ... the music's muscular and quick, much of it thrilling..."
“It’s hard to
imagine [him] being more in the pocket, more energetic.”
“It’s incredible
the energy output [he] can generate...
"Brownman plays
with fire and intensity ... executed with skill and feeling ...
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