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Brownman's HALLOWEEN THRILLER 2026 Brownman Electryc Trio + 1 plays Michael Jackson's Thriller From Press Release: Acclaimed jazz / hip-hop trumpet player BROWNMAN ALI will once again lead an all-star quartet through his popular annual HALLOWEEN THRILLER concert, this year travelling to various venues (and schools!) across Southern Ontario. The much lauded BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO + 1 will perform the entire Michael Jackson "Thriller" recording, interpreted and re-worked in the Miles Davis-esque fashion this multiple National Jazz Award winning improviser has become known for. In addition to the quartet performing Thriller top to bottom, other MJ classics will be featured through the night for this unique Halloween jazz party series. Costumes and Thriller video dance moves encouraged. Multiple shows,
cities & electric-jazz Halloween parties!
BROWNMAN ALI is a multi-JUNO Award winner, GRAMMY long-lister, 2x National Jazz Award winner, 10x Global Music Award winner, 7x Toronto Music Award winner and -- now splitting his time between Brooklyn, NY and Toronto, ON -- has been heralded as "Canada's preeminent jazz trumpet player" by the New York Village Voice. He has toured and recorded with the likes of Guru's Jazzmatazz, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, KRS-One, Big Daddy Kane, Jay-z, Kanye West, Missy Elliot, Paul Simon and Quincy Quincy Jones. This show features
as its "+1" acclaimed keyboardist NICK
MACLEAN, a rising star in Toronto's jazz community, signee to Brownman's
Browntasauras
Records label & winner of 10 Global Music Awards, standing alongside
2 of Toronto's most in demand musicians : SEAN
DENNIS on bass (called a "once in a generation bassist" by the bass
dept. head at Humber College) , and ADAM
MANSFIELD on drums (26-year old drumset phenom), all under the direction
of modern jazz trumpet iconoclast
BROWNMAN
ALI.
"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 2 National Jazz Awards, 3 Toronto Independent Music Awards for "Jazz Group of the Year", a SOCAN music award, a CBC Galaxie Rising Star Award, and an International Independent Music Award for "Jazz-Funk album of the year" for the album "Gravitation", which hit number 4 on the iTunes USA jazz charts and was GRAMMY Award long-listed upon its 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.”
TBA:
Tue-Oct-20
Westport:
Thr-Oct-22
Montreal:
Fri-Oct-23
Ottawa:
Sat-Oct-24
TBA:
Sun-Oct-25
Barrie:
Tue-Oct-27
Newmarket:Wed-Oct-28
TBA:
Thr-Oct-29
Hamilton:
Thr-Oct-30
Toronto:
Sat-Oct-31 (Happy Halloween)
The BAND 2026 HALLOWEEN THRILLER is: [ BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO + 1 ] :: Brownman Ali - electric trumpet [ www.Brownman.com ] :: Nick Maclean - keyboards / synths [ www.NicholasMaclean.com ] :: Sean Dennis - 6-string electric bass [ Sean on Insta ] :: Adam Mansfield - drums [ Adam on Facebook ]
About BROWNMAN ALI Brownman.com / Facebook / Instagram / YouTube "One of the next great voices in the new generation of jazz improvisers” -- Randy Brecker, legendary 14x Grammy winning trumpet icon
A highly decorated player, Brownman's awards & accolades includes multiple JUNO nominations, being GRAMMY long-listed, 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, winning the International Songwriting Competition (ISC) in the Jazz Category, an International Independent Music Award for "Album of the Year", 5 Toronto Independent Music Award "jazz artist of the year" (11 nominations), 10 Global Music Awards, a Black IMPACT Award for "Artist of the Year", a Black Canadian Award nomination for "Jazz Musician of the Year", a Caribbean Music & Entertainment Award for "Jazz Artist 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 was once listed by Air Canada as one of the "Top 10 reasons to visit Toronto". ---- Hear
9+ hours of selected tracks across Brownman Ali's entire career, both as
leader and sideman in a wide range of styles and genres, via this SPOTIFY
PLAYLIST :
Watch
video from around the globe via this YouTube Archive :
VIDEOS THRILLER
PYT
BILLIE JEAN
HUMAN NATURE
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QUESTIONS? Got a question? Need more info? andrew@brownman.com or call 1-718-701-9449 .
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