ARECIBO: featuring Brownman Ali:November 12.
Kaleidoscope Brown: ARECIBO: featuring: Brownman Ali – trumpet (Trinidad): With Paul Morrison – piano
(Canada) Amhed Mitchel – drums (Cuba): Ben Miller – 6-string electric bass. Saturday, November 12. 8:00pm. $15 door. $10 artists/students. A brand new latin-jazz outfit delving deeply into both Cuban and Brazilian modern jazz traditions in the New York latin-jazz spirit of Jerry Gonzalez & The Fort Apache Band featuring some of Toronto’s most acclaimed jazz and latin music specialists. The group is named after the Arecibo radio telescope housed in Puerto Rico – the largest radio telescope in the world, responsible for the deepest exploration of space mankind has achieved to date. http://arecibo.brownman.com Jazz writer Conrad Gayle writes: “Brownman Ali does it again being the great mastermind creating bands as vehicles for his creative output. His unbridled versatility always pays huge dividends when he adapts and integrates his own unique jazz voice to straight ahead jazz, funk, hip-hop and Latin sounds, and ARECIBO is yet another example of his chameleon like abilities to fit into any mode of music. In Arecibo he has assembled a great band that brings all 4 of those elements together into a sound that – like the trumpet player himself – is one-of-a-kind with it’s own special identity. “
