According to local jazz disc jockey Scott McLaren, Nick "The Brownman" Ali was "born on the small Caribbean island of Trinidad, schooled in New York" and is "now based in Toronto." At 25, he is "one of the most in demand, young jazz studio trumpet players" in Canada today. Every Friday night in September 2005 the Brownman is also serving as impresario front-man for a musical retrospective called "Five Weeks for Miles." It's at the Trane Studio on Bathurst Street in Toronto, a few blocks north of the Bloor subway line.

... and driving percussion too ...

The summer can be a time for great music. And one sparkling highlight of the 2005 Toronto Downtown Jazz Festival — now sponsored by the very characteristic local institution of a bank (TD Canada Trust) — was a June 30 saxophone double bill, in a big tent on the city hall square.

BTW ... WE'RE STILL RENOVATING THE SITE FOR THE NEW YEAR ... AND THE SPRING 2006 UNIVERSE IS STILL A BIT CONFUSING ... PARDON THE INCONVENIENCE ... PROGRESS IS STILL BEING MADE, JUST NOT AS QUICKLY  AS WE'D LIKE.