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Brownman Electryc Trio

since circa 2004
2x National Jazz Award winners for "Electric Jazz Group of the Year," led by the internationally acclaimed Brownman Ali, "Canada's preeminent jazz trumpet player" (Village Voice, New York City). ===================================== About BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO www.ElectrycTrio.Brownman.com ---- In recent years, when not touring the globe the Brooklyn based multi-award-winning Trinidadian-born trumpet player BROWNMAN ALI -- the last trumpet player for iconic jazz-hip-hop group Guru's Jazzmatazz -- spends much of his artistic time in the exploration of modern “chordless” jazz -> music produced without a chordal instrument (guitar or keyboard). He had previously explored this tonal quality for a decade with his highly lauded latin-jazz group CRUZAO, and more recently with his heavily decorated & now internationally acclaimed Miles Davis influenced BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO. Taking a similar trajectory as the acclaimed 2009 debut release "Juggernaut", this highly energized bombastic trio’s 2013 sophomore release “Gravitation: A Study In Freefall” -- on Brownman’s own label Browntasauras Records -- shot to number 4 on the iTunes USA jazz charts and was declared “the... more...
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Current Lineup

Brownman Ali
electric trumpet / leader / composer
2000 - present
Sean Dennis
Bass
2004 - present
Miles Johnson
Drums
2004 - present
Nick Maclean
Keys
2004 - present
Matt Gruebner
Bass
2004 - present
Adam Mansfield
Drums
2004 - present