"Thriller" -- Brownman Ali's HALLOWEEN THRILLER 2020 @ KW Jazz Room (BET+1 plays Michael Jackson)
Video 4 of 4 -- "Thriller" from Brownman Ali's HALLOWEEN THRILLER 2022
:: www.Thriller.Brownman.com ::
Every year for over a decade the much lauded BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO + 1 performs the entire Michael Jackson "Thriller" recording, interpreted and re-worked in the Miles Davis-esque fashion Brownman Ali -- a multiple National Jazz Award winning improviser -- has become known for. In addition to the quartet performing Thriller from top to bottom, other MJ classics get featured through the night for this unique Halloween Series jazz party, which often tours in the days leading up to Halloween.
"Delving so deeply into that record always leaves us speechless", states Ali. "Michael birthed so many incredible tunes over the years, but his collaborations with Quincy Jones on Thriller has to be one of the most towering musical achievements in pop music ever. Using that brilliant material every year on Halloween, as jump-offs for what we do makes for a party that's both danceable, but still rooted in exploratory improvising and deep reaching solos. We approach it the way Miles might have."
The BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO has won a National Jazz Award, 3 Toronto Independent Music Award, a SOCAN music award, a CBC Galaxie Rising Star Award, and an International Independent Music Award for "Jazz-Funk album of the year" for their latest release "Gravitation", which hit number 4 on the iTunes USA jazz charts upon it's release.
“Awards are nice, naturally, but to dig what Brownman is doing, you’ve got to see him live. I had a chance to do just that over the summer when Brownman fronted his killer trio ... I came away with a blown mind. This guy’s got chops galore, soul to match, and a sense of phrasing that recalls many of the greats, but suggests itself to be his own.”
-- The Buffalo News
Show footage from Oct 31, 2020
The HALLOWEEN THRILLER
feat. BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO + 1
@ KW Jazz Room, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
:: Brownman Ali - electric trumpet & spookiness
:: Nick Maclean - keyboards & ghoulishness
:: Max Wilson - electric bass & creepiness
:: David Steinmetz - drums & ghastliness
See more videos from this 2020 HALLOWEEN THRILLER show:
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFEa9tcDLHdLgeCGMKT5BfiWAv7IGymNv
www.facebook.com/watch/11284584521/948149329106979
See more videos of BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO live:
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFECA3E452FE2BC0D
Hear the BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO and all Browntasauras Records Artists:
www.Spotify.Browntasauras.com
www.YouTube.Browntasauras.com
Official BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO Website:
www.ElectrycTrio.Brownman.com
Please Subscribe:
@BrownmanMusicArchives
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ABOUT BROWNMAN | www.Brownman.com
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Heralded as “Canada’s preeminent Jazz trumpeter” by NYC’s Village Voice, Brownman Ali - born on the small Caribbean island of Trinidad, & 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 8 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.
"Brownman... one of the next great voices in the new generation of jazz improvisers”
-- Randy Brecker
YouTube Chapters
0:00 - Intro
1:00 - Verse 1
1:26 - Chorus 1
1:56 - Verse 2
2:23 - Chorus 2
2:40 - Interlude 1
3:00 - Verse 3
3:25 - Chorus 3
4:00 - Darkness Falls Across The Land
5:53 - Electric Trumpet Solo
8:54 - Reprise
9:31 - Player Intros
10:32 - Electric Trumpet Solo Outro
:: www.Thriller.Brownman.com ::
Every year for over a decade the much lauded BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO + 1 performs the entire Michael Jackson "Thriller" recording, interpreted and re-worked in the Miles Davis-esque fashion Brownman Ali -- a multiple National Jazz Award winning improviser -- has become known for. In addition to the quartet performing Thriller from top to bottom, other MJ classics get featured through the night for this unique Halloween Series jazz party, which often tours in the days leading up to Halloween.
"Delving so deeply into that record always leaves us speechless", states Ali. "Michael birthed so many incredible tunes over the years, but his collaborations with Quincy Jones on Thriller has to be one of the most towering musical achievements in pop music ever. Using that brilliant material every year on Halloween, as jump-offs for what we do makes for a party that's both danceable, but still rooted in exploratory improvising and deep reaching solos. We approach it the way Miles might have."
The BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO has won a National Jazz Award, 3 Toronto Independent Music Award, a SOCAN music award, a CBC Galaxie Rising Star Award, and an International Independent Music Award for "Jazz-Funk album of the year" for their latest release "Gravitation", which hit number 4 on the iTunes USA jazz charts upon it's release.
“Awards are nice, naturally, but to dig what Brownman is doing, you’ve got to see him live. I had a chance to do just that over the summer when Brownman fronted his killer trio ... I came away with a blown mind. This guy’s got chops galore, soul to match, and a sense of phrasing that recalls many of the greats, but suggests itself to be his own.”
-- The Buffalo News
Show footage from Oct 31, 2020
The HALLOWEEN THRILLER
feat. BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO + 1
@ KW Jazz Room, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
:: Brownman Ali - electric trumpet & spookiness
:: Nick Maclean - keyboards & ghoulishness
:: Max Wilson - electric bass & creepiness
:: David Steinmetz - drums & ghastliness
See more videos from this 2020 HALLOWEEN THRILLER show:
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFEa9tcDLHdLgeCGMKT5BfiWAv7IGymNv
www.facebook.com/watch/11284584521/948149329106979
See more videos of BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO live:
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFECA3E452FE2BC0D
Hear the BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO and all Browntasauras Records Artists:
www.Spotify.Browntasauras.com
www.YouTube.Browntasauras.com
Official BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO Website:
www.ElectrycTrio.Brownman.com
Please Subscribe:
@BrownmanMusicArchives
----
ABOUT BROWNMAN | www.Brownman.com
----
Heralded as “Canada’s preeminent Jazz trumpeter” by NYC’s Village Voice, Brownman Ali - born on the small Caribbean island of Trinidad, & 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 8 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.
"Brownman... one of the next great voices in the new generation of jazz improvisers”
-- Randy Brecker
YouTube Chapters
0:00 - Intro
1:00 - Verse 1
1:26 - Chorus 1
1:56 - Verse 2
2:23 - Chorus 2
2:40 - Interlude 1
3:00 - Verse 3
3:25 - Chorus 3
4:00 - Darkness Falls Across The Land
5:53 - Electric Trumpet Solo
8:54 - Reprise
9:31 - Player Intros
10:32 - Electric Trumpet Solo Outro
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