ELECTRIC MILES in St. Catharines, 2026 In celebration of the centennial of MILES DAVIS’ birth, this ELECTRIC MILES concert sees GRAMMY Award nominee, 2x National Jazz Award winner, and Jay-Z, Kanye West & Missy Elliot alumni BROWNMAN ALI takes Niagara region audiences on a chronological journey through Miles Davis’ electric period, tracing his groundbreaking output from 1969 through to his final explorations bridging jazz and hip-hop. Described as “one of Canada’s greatest interpreters of Miles Davis’ music,” by the Hamilton Spectator, this trumpet-playing iconoclast brings a deeply authentic and high-energy tribute to this pivotal era of the jazz artform.

Legendary as a kind of line in the sand challenging jazz fans during the ascendance of electric, psychedelic rock, "In a Silent Way" (Columbia Records, 1969) hinted at the repetitive polyrhythms Davis would employ throughout the early '70s.…