5 WEEKS FOR MILES: "Doo-bop" - Had He Lived…

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. ---- 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.