Acclaimed jazz / hip-hop trumpet player BROWNMAN ALI performs the entire Michael Jackson "Thriller" recording as Miles Davis might have.
About this EventHALLOWEEN THRILLER 2026 :: www.Thriller.Brownman.comAcclaimed jazz / hip-hop trumpet player BROWNMAN ALI will once again lead an all-star quartet through his popular annual Halloween Thriller concert, this year travelling to multiple cities across Southern Ontario. The much lauded BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO + 1 will perform the entire Michael Jackson "Thriller" recording, interpreted and re-worked in the Miles Davis-esque fashion this multiple National Jazz Award winning improviser has become known for. In addition to the quartet performing Thriller from top to bottom, other MJ classics will be featured through the night for this unique Halloween Series jazz party. This show features as it's "+1" acclaimed keyboardist NICK MACLEAN -- a JUNO Award nominee, a signee to Brownman's Browntasauras Records label & winner of 10 Global Music Awards -- standing alongside 2 of Toronto's most in demand musicians : SEAN DENNIS on 6-string electric bass (called "a once in a generation bass player" by the Head of the Humber College Bass Department when he was a student there), and ADAM MANSFIELD on drums (25-year old drumset phenom), all under the direction of 2x National Jazz Award winning modern jazz trumpet iconoclast BROWNMAN ALI. Please visit www.Thriller.Brownman.com for more info on this year's Halloween Thriller Series.
"Delving so deeply into that record always leaves us speechless", states Ali. "Michael birthed so many incredible tunes over the years, but his collaborations with Quincy Jones on Thriller has to be one of the most towering musical achievements in pop music ever. Using that brilliant material every year on Halloween, as jump-offs for what we do makes for a party that's both danceable, but still rooted in exploratory improvising and deep reaching solos. We approach it the way Miles might have."
The BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO has won a National Jazz Award, 3 Toronto Independent Music Awards, a SOCAN music award, a CBC Galaxie Rising Star Award, and an International Independent Music Award for "Jazz-Funk album of the year" for their latest release "Gravitation", which hit number 4 on the iTunes USA jazz charts upon it's release in addition to being long-listed for a GRAMMY Award.
“Awards are nice, naturally, but to dig what Brownman is doing, you’ve got to see him live. I had a chance to do just that over the summer when Brownman fronted his killer trio ... I came away with a blown mind. This guy’s got chops galore, soul to match, and a sense of phrasing that recalls many of the greats, but suggests itself to be his own.”
-- The Buffalo News on the latest slew of awards for the Brownman Electryc Trio
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Sat-Oct-31 -- TORONTO
@ My House
2882 Dundas St. W., Toronto, ON, M6P 1Y8
www.MyHouseInTheJunction.com
7:00pm -- doors
8:00pm -- show
$25 -- advance (with costume)
$30 -- advance (no costume)
$20 -- students / arts worker
$35 -- at-the-door on show-night (if space available)
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*** 1st come, 1st serve for seating, so arrive early to ensure an optimal sight-line (as front of house seats have the best sightlines).
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Consider a dinner reservation -- check out My House's award-winning menu:
https://myhouseinthejunction.com/menu
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ALL Ontario 2026 THRILLER Tour Dates:
www.Thriller.Brownman.comTue-Oct-20, 7pm : COURTICE @ Sir Monty's
Wed-Oct-21, 7pm : KINGSTON @ RCHA Club
Thr-Oct-22, 7pm : WESTPORT @ Cove Inn
Fri-Oct-23, 7pm : MONTREAL @ Upstairs Jazz
Sat-Oct-24, 7pm : OTTAWA @ Night Oat
Sun-Oct-25, 7pm : KEENE @ Keene Center for the Arts
Mon-Oct-26, day : TORONTO -- school masterclass
Tue-Oct-27, 7pm : NEWMARKET @ George Whiskey Lounge
Wed-Oct-28, 7pm : BARRIE @ Tequilazzo
Thr-Oct-29, 7pm : KITCHENER @ Arabella Park Beer Bar
Fri-Oct-30, 8pm : HAMILTON @ Henry's On James
Sat-Oct-31, 8pm : TORONTO @ My House
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:: Brownman Ali - electric trumpet & spookiness
--> www.Brownman.com
:: Nick Maclean - keyboards & ghoulishness
--> www.NicholasMaclean.com
:: Sean Dennis - electric bass & creepiness
--> www.Instagram.com/seanydmusic
:: Adam Mansfield - drums & ghastliness
--> www.Instagram.com/adammansfield8
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Dress up if you like (and save $5!) - it's Halloween after all!!!
See videos from the 2020 HALLOWEEN THRILLER show:
Hear the BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO at:
Videos of BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO live:
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ABOUT BROWNMAN |
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Heralded as “Canada’s preeminent Jazz trumpeter” by NYC’s Village Voice, Brownman Ali - born on the small Caribbean island of Trinidad, & schooled in NYC - is a multiple award-winning NYC-schooled protégé to his teacher, Grammy-winning trumpet legend, Randy Brecker. Splitting his time between Toronto and New York, he tirelessly leads 8 unique ensembles of his own including the internationally acclaimed Miles Davis influenced BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO, and the award-winning CRUZAO latin-jazz quintet. All these ensembles record under Brownman's own much lauded BROWNTASAURAS RECORDS label, established in 2009. In high demand in the studio world with over 300 CD appearances to date, Brownman delivers stylistically authentic horn playing over a wide range of styles from bebop to hiphop having worked with the likes of Guru's Jazzmatazz (replacing Donald Byrd in that primordial ensemble), Mos Def, KRS-1, Quincy Jones, Paul Simon, Jay-z, Missy Elliot, Mingus Dynasty Big Band, Gary Bartz, Chucho Valdes & far too many more to name here. He is considered to be one of the most unique and provocative improvising trumpet players in the nation today and is widely regarded as a vanguard for the evolution of Jazz in Canada.
"One of the next great voices in the new generation of jazz improvisers”
-- Randy Brecker
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AWARDS & ACCOLADES
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A highly decorated player, his awards & accolades include :
-- multiple JUNO Award nominations
-- bring GRAMMY Award long-listed (w/ Brownman Electryc Trio)
-- 2 National Jazz Awards (with 11 nominations over the years)
-- 10 Global Music Awards
-- winner of the International Song Competition (ISC) - Jazz Category
-- Montreal Jazz Fest's "Grand Prix Du Jazz" award
-- a CBC Galaxie Rising Star award
-- a SOCAN composers award
-- an International Independent Music Award for "Album of the Year"
-- 7 Toronto Independent Music Award "jazz artist of the year" (11 nominations)
-- a Black IMPACT Award for "Musician of the Year"
-- a Black Canadian Award nomination for "Jazz Musician of the Year"
-- an induction into the WHO'S WHO IN BLACK CANADA
-- a Caribbean Music & Entertainment nomination for "Jazz Artist of the Year"
-- a BRAVO! channel documentary on his life
-- NOW magazine naming him "Toronto's Best Jazz Musician"
-- CBC Radio Canada named him "one of the most recorded trumpet players in Canadian history"
-- NPR in New York calls him "the new standard in electric jazz"
-- the Trinidad & Tobago Consulate General awarded him with a citation for being a "Distinguished National of Trinidad"
-- was once listed by Air Canada's in-flight magazine as "One of the Top 10 reasons to visit Toronto".
