5 WEEKS FOR MILES: All Shows Pass

100 years after Miles Davis was born -- in 2026, there are 5 Saturdays in May. Every Saturday multi-award winning jazz trumpet iconoclast BROWNMAN ALI will lead 5 different all-star ensembles through 5 historic eras of jazz which Miles Davis catalyzed & immortalized with his presence. 
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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.
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SCHEDULE
5 Saturdays... 5 Quintets... 5 Eras of Miles...
Week 1 - May 02 - "Young Miles" - The Bird Years
Week 2 - May 09 - "Birth Of The Cool" - Post-Bop Miles [ TIX ]
Week 3 - May 16 - "Plugged Nickel" - The Shorter Years [ TIX ]
Week 4 - May 23 - "Bitches Brew to Tutu" - Electric Miles [ TIX ]
Week 5 - May 30 - "Doo-bop" - Had He Lived… [ TIX ]
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www.Miles.Brownman.com for detailed show info.
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6:00pm - doors
7:00pm - showtime each Saturday

Dinner reservations at CONTXT are encouraged -- reservations: info@contxtbytrane.com
CONTXT features some of the finest Pan/Caribbean cuisine in Toronto. See MENU HERE.
Table seating will be given preference to those with dinner reservations on a first come first serve basis.
Ticket holders should arrive before 6pm to ensure optimal seating (band is soundchecking until 6pm)

"Miles Davis, like water, is elemental. His musical output is foundational. Essential. So much of what he's done is in the DNA of jazz today, and so much of what he did required the kind of risk-filled courage and bold irreverence only an artist of deep expressionistic convictions could manifest. There's a reason he occupies a uniquely sacred space in the hearts and minds of jazz evolutionists and improvisers who deliver personal narratives in each solo. And that's the reason I feel it's so deeply important work to trace the depth of his impact on jazz history's timeline with this series."
-- Brownman Ali, March 2026

"Brownman Ali ... one of the greatest interpreters of Miles Davis' work in Canada."
-- Graham Rockingham, Hamilton Spectator

ABOUT BROWNMAN ALI | www.Brownman.com
An internationally acclaimed jazz iconoclast deeply influenced by Miles Davis' output, Brownman Ali is a 2x National Jazz Award winner; 10x Global Music Award winner; 7x Toronto Independent Music Award winner; GRAMMY long-lister; JUNO nominee; and is heralded by the NY Village Voice as "Canada's preeminent jazz trumpet player". He is best known as the last trumpet soloist for legendary jazz-hip-hop outfit Guru's Jazzmatazz (replacing Donald Byrd in this iconic group), now splitting his time between Toronto, ON & Brooklyn, NY, when this Trinidadian-born artist is not leading 8 groups of his own (including the National Jazz Award winning BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO & Montreal Jazz Fest's "Grand Prix du Jazz" winners CRUZAO). He is also a highly in-demand studio session musician having appeared on over 300 recordings to date, and is the CEO of the acclaimed Brooklyn-based record label BROWNTASAURAS RECORDS. His bombastically narrative style as an improviser, often reminiscent of 60's Miles Davis, has made him one of the most sought after soloists today and widely regarded as "a vanguard for the evolution of jazz in Canada".