Nick Maclean Quartet

NICK MACLEAN QUARTET feat. BROWNMAN ALI -- JUNO Nominated Jazz (Montreal)
FRI-AUG-14
2 shows: 7:30pm & 9:45pm
@ Upstairs Jazz | www.UpstairsJazz.com
1254 Mackay St, Montreal, Quebec H3G 2H4
$16.50+TX first set, $15+TX late set
facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1857880741568126
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"« Convergence » is one of the best canadian albums of 2023 and should have chances to get a Juno."
- Denys Lelièvre, CKRL (Quebec City, Canada)
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This August, the NICK MACLEAN QUARTET feat. BROWNMAN ALI performs music from their newly JUNO NOMINATED sophomore album CONVERGENCE. Led by fast-rising piano star NICK MACLEAN -- a 10x Global Music Award winner and one of the most in-demand young jazz piano players in Toronto -- this contemplative yet thrilling quartet delivers jazz between the two poles of thoughtful introspection and powerhouse conveyance, taking influences from Herbie Hancock's primordial 1960's Blue Note era recordings. Maclean's quartet heavily features one of Canada's most provocative improvising trumpet players -- BROWNMAN ALI -- an internationally acclaimed, multi-award winning jazz iconoclast who has been heralded as "Canada's preeminent jazz trumpet player" by New York City's Village Voice and is best known globally as the last trumpet player to play in the legendary jazz-hip-hop group GURU's JAZZMATAZZ. For this show, Ali & Maclean stand shoulder-to-shoulder with 2 of Canada's top-tier rhythm section players: BENNETT YOUNG on upright bass, and JACOB WUTZKE on drums.

Come witness these four in full flight, this performance will feature deeply exploratory, hard-swinging modern-jazz audiences will not want to miss.
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:: Nick Maclean - piano
:: Brownman Ali - trumpet
:: Bennett Young - bass
:: Jacob Wutzke - drums