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 20-somethings: BEN DUFF on upright bass, and JACKSON HAYNES on drums (in for Jacob Wutzke).

Come witness these four in full flight, this performance will feature deeply exploratory, hard-swinging modern-jazz audiences will not want to miss.

Musicians:
Nick Maclean – piano
Brownman Ali – trumpet
Ben Duff – bass
Jackson Haynes – drums

Youtube video: “Road Warrior”

“A definite musical voice” (Guitar International) and a player of “fluid lyricism” (DownBeat), Canadian guitarist and composer Alex Goodman moved to New York City in 2012, where he became recognized as “among the most promising talents of his jazz generation” (JazzTimes) and “one of New York’s most vital guitarists” (Jazziz). In 2014, he won First Prize and the Public’s Choice Award at the International Guitar Competition at the Montreux Jazz Festival.

Since then, he has contributed to and been featured on numerous Grammy-nominated recordings, as well as projects recognized by Canada’s JUNO Awards and the German Jazz Prize. Over the past decade, he has established a distinct presence, bringing together his work as a guitarist, composer, bandleader, and active sideman.

Alex Goodman – guitar
Chris Cheek – saxophone
Martin Nevin – bass
Adam Arruda – drums

Youtube video: “No Man’s Land”

Jane Mei is a Montreal-based jazz pianist whose musical voice is grounded in lyricism, engagement, and an occasional humoristic twist. In 2025, she completed her Bachelor’s in Jazz Performance at McGill University, where she studied privately with Marianne Trudel and Jean Michel Pilc. She then released in the same year Oceanography, her debuting all-originals album in which every piece evokes an element or a living creature of the sea.

Jane and her tightly knit trio will be playing live renditions of the album compositions. The modern rhythms and modal colours of the compositions, the chemistry of the band’s interactions, as well as Jane’s numerous ocean facts and stories behind each composition are bound to make for an irreplicable night of innovative, programmatic jazz.

Musicians
Jane Mei – piano
João Menegale-Barbi – bass
Christina Beaudry-Cardenas – drums

Video: “Mola Mola”