MY HOUSE JUNCTION JAZZ FEST 2026
- Nick Maclean
- Jun 10
- 4 min read
Toronto's My HOUSE in the Junction live music venue & restaurant has again teamed up with Brooklyn, NY's Browntasauras Records -- who has a studio in the Junction -- to bring you some of the best jazz in the country from June 22 to 28. This year again features Artist-In-Residence BROWNMAN ALI as the fest's Artistic Director, up from Brooklyn, NY. This 10x Global Music Award winner, 12x JUNO Award nominee & GRAMMY Award long-lister will be on stage every night during the festival as either a sideman or a leader, and has hand-picked all the top-tier musicians & award-winning ensembles involved in the 2nd annual My HOUSE Junction Jazz Fest featuring classic jazz, modern jazz, latin-jazz, electric-jazz and more! Come to My HOUSE in the Junction this June 22 to 28 for 7 nights of an unforgettable jazz experience!
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All Fest Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/cc/4844128
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FEST SCHEDULE AT-A-GLANCE -->
Mon-Jun-22, 7pm: JORDANA TALSKY: LIVE LOOPING
Tue-Jun-23, 7pm: JACOB WUTZKE TRIO
Wed-Jun-24, 7pm: NICK MACLEAN 4-TET play HERBIE HANCOCK
Thr-Jun-25, 7pm: ARECIBO - Proyecto Blanquito
Fri-Jun-26, 8pm: BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO
Sat-Jun-27, 8pm: GENEVIEVE MARENTETTE's FLUX-STATE
Sun-Jun-28, 4pm: MILES DAVIS: The PRESTIGE YEARS
@ My HOUSE, 2882 Dundas St. West, Toronto, 416-604-4555
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FULL SCHEDULE INFO -->
Mon-Jun-22, 7:00pm, $15 adv / $20 door
JORDANA TALSKY - LIVE LOOPING
Modern vocal-jazz looping
Jordana Talsky is an award winning singer/songwriter (semi-finalist at the Sarah Vaughn International Vocal Jazz Competition) and vocal looper who crafts intricate soundscapes using only her voice and body, live-looped through a Roland Boss RC505. Her EP Zahava -- Hebrew for "golden" and her middle name -- showcases this innovative approach, layering harmonies, rhythms, and melodies without pre-recorded parts. Her vocal loop track, “RUN,” was selected as a finalist in Canada’s CBC Searchlight Contest.
:: Jordan Talsky - vocals & loops
:: Scott Metcalfe - piano
w/ special guest Brownman Ali - trumpet
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Tue-Jun-23, 7:00pm, $15 adv / $20 door
JACOB WUTZKE TRIO
Classic Jazz
From Montreal, having just re-located there from New York City, JUNO winning jazz drummer Jacob Wutzke brings his hard-swinging trio to My House delving deeply into great American Songbook classics from Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Duke Ellington plus his own originals & beyond! Jacob is one of the most in-demand jazz drummers in Canada, with a 43,000+ following on Instagram, best known for his work with JUNO winner Caity Gyorgy, JUNO nominee Nick Maclean, & GRAMMY long-lister Brownman Ali.
:: Jacob Wutzke - drums
:: Brownman Ali - trumpet
:: Bennett Young - bass
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Wed-Jun-24, 7:00pm, $20 adv / $30 door
NICK MACLEAN QUARTET plays HERBIE HANCOCK
Modern Jazz
JUNO nominated, Global Music Award winning piano & synth wizard Nick Maclean has been deeply influenced by Herbie Hancock -- the legendary pianist & composer who revolutionized jazz through his work with Miles Davis’ Second Great Quintet and as a pioneer of post-bop, funk, and synth-driven jazz. This concert will feature the NICK MACLEAN QUARTET, stacked with some of Toronto's finest in a 2-set night featuring Herbie Hancock originals and Maclean's own Hancock-inspired compositions.
:: Nick Maclean - piano
:: Brownman Ali - trumpet
:: Duncan Hopkins - bass
:: Jacob Wutzke - drums
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Thr-Jun-25, 7:00pm, $20 adv / $30 door
ARECBIO - Proyecto Blanquito
Latin-jazz
This exciting Latin-jazz outfit delves deeply into both Cuban and Brazilian modern jazz traditions, modeled after the New York Latin-jazz spirit of Jerry Gonzalez & The Fort Apache Band and featuring some of Toronto’s most acclaimed jazz and Latin music specialists, all under the direction of 2x National Jazz Award trumpeter BROWNMAN ALI (leader of the lauded Latin-jazz group CRUZAO, winners of the Montreal Jazz Fest's "Grand Prix Du Jazz Award"). This group is named after the ARECIBO space telescope.
:: Brownman Ali - trumpet
:: Nick Maclean - piano
:: Sean Dennis - 6-string electric bass
:: Jacob Wutzke - drums
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Fri-Jun-26, 8:00pm, $25 adv / $35 door
BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO
Electric-jazz
GRAMMY long-listers & 2x National Jazz Award winners BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO is an electric-jazz powerhouse colliding Black American Music artforms (hip-hop, funk, soul, r’n’b, jungle) with jazz narratives, extrapolating the ideologies of Miles Davis & Randy Brecker. They combine virtuosic performance skills set against an energized urban sonic backdrop, their chart-topping albums “Juggernaut” & the GRAMMY long-listed “Gravitation” have been heralded as "the new standard in jazz" by NPR in NYC.
:: Brownman Ali - trumpet
:: Sean Dennis - 6-string electric bass
:: Adam Mansfield - drums
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Sat-Jun-27, 8:00pm, $25 adv / $35 door
GENEVIEVE MARENTETTE's FLUX-STATE
Vocal-driven Electric-jazz
FLUX-STATE is music before it hardens into form. Led by the extraordinary internationally acclaimed improvising vocalist Genevieve “Gigi” Marentette -- backed by the GRAMMY long-listed Brownman Electryc Trio plus the JUNO nominated Nick Maclean -- this group turns chords, grooves, lyrics, and original compositions into spontaneous songcraft. Gigi utilizes pre-written words, while inventing melodie in real time over music that is alive, unstable, courageous, and never the same twice. This is modern jazz in its most creative flux-state. Not to be missed!
:: Genevieve Marentette - vocals
:: Brownman Ali - trumpet
:: Nick Maclean - keys & synths
:: Sean Dennis - 6-string electric bass
:: Adam Mansfield - drums
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Sun-Jun-28 (matinee), 4:00pm, $20 adv / $30 door
MILES DAVIS: PRESTIGE YEARS feat. Brownman Ali
Classic jazz
Hailed as “one of the greatest interpreters of Miles Davis' work in Canada” (Hamilton Spectator), multi award-winning trumpet iconoclast Brownman Ali explores Miles' work from '51 to '56, where a string of groundbreaking albums for Prestige Records would be recorded, including Cookin’, Relaxin’, Workin’, and Steamin’ -- blending bebop virtuosity with a cool, lyrical sensibility. Brownman and a selection of top-shelf jazz artists will explore these recordings channeling the intensity and innovation of Miles’ early genius.
:: Brownman Ali - trumpet
:: Nick Maclean - piano
:: Bennett Young - bass
:: Frank Botos - drums
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