This week’s Jazz Club performance features a brilliant quartet led by fast-rising piano star Nick Maclean. Nick is an eight-time 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. Ali 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 two of Canada's top-tier 20-somethings: Bennett Young on upright bass, and Mateo Mancuso on drums.

ADMISSION: By donation.
CONCESSION: Coffee, tea and treats are also available by donation.
DOORS: Open at 6:30 pm