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Lina Allemano

LINA ALLEMANO is a Canadian trumpeter, improviser, prolific composer, and bandleader with an active international career, performing and recording cutting-edge contemporary music primarily in experimental, conceptual, improvised and jazz settings, but also working in a wide array of other genres. Born and raised in Edmonton Alberta, Allemano moved to Toronto in 1993. She is educated in both classical and jazz trumpet and specializes in extended technique on her instrument. Allemano now splits her time between the music scenes in TORONTO and BERLIN, and she runs her own internationally-acclaimed record label LUMO RECORDS.

Allemano composes music primarily for her forward-thinking acoustic quartet LINA ALLEMANO FOUR, nominated for the 2022 JUNO Awards Jazz Album of the Year (Group), as well as her Berlin-based power-trio OHRENSCHMAUS. She also leads the electric improvising quartet TITANIUM RIOT and the trumpet / live-processing duo BLOOP, and is a longtime member of Rob Clutton’s CLUTTERTONES. In 2020, she released a solo album GLIMMER GLAMMER and she continues to explore the trumpet in a solo context. As well as being a side-musician in many other groups in both Toronto and Berlin, Allemano is also busy collaborating with many of today’s top groundbreaking musicians in countless other international projects. She has been releasing albums and touring extensively with her bands and many others all across Canada, USA and Europe for years. As a session musician, Allemano's trumpet playing can also be heard on countless albums, film and television soundtracks.

Lina Allemano was included in the 2022 DownBeat Magazine Annual Critics Poll list for 'Rising Star Trumpet' & her band LINA ALLEMANO FOUR was included for 'Rising Star Jazz Group'. Allemano was also featured as one of the top innovative trumpeters for the future in DownBeat Magazine and called one of the most exciting new voices of the last few years by Brian Morton, Point of Departure. Her trumpet playing, compositions and artistic vision have gained her international recognition as being adventurous, expressive, compelling, inventive and sophisticated.

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Lina Allemano, Thomas Agergaard & Bacchanalia Orchestra

Read "Lina Allemano, Thomas Agergaard & Bacchanalia Orchestra" reviewed by Maurice Hogue


Canadian trumpeter Lina Allemano says she started writing canons as a fun and challenging compositional game of sorts; eventually the fun and games morphed into her latest album, Canons , where she's accompanied by a varying cast of characters. On the track chosen for this show Lina is joined by trombonist Matthias Müller. Danish saxophonist Thomas Agergaard found his inspiration for Narrrations in the uncertainty of recent observations about UFOs, while Amsterdam's Bacchanalia Orchestra undoubtedly just looks at the name ...

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Lina Allemano: Canons

Read "Canons" reviewed by Troy Dostert


Capping twenty years of running Lumo Records--a record label dedicated to her multifarious projects--with Canons, trumpeter Lina Allemano has assembled several innovative ensembles to give voice to her distinctive chamber-jazz aesthetic. While it might not be as obviously adventurous as some of her previous releases, it retains Allemano's signature emphasis on finding the ideal pivot point between composition and improvisation. And it is often a quite beautiful listening experience as well. Allemano has always been a crafty improviser, ...

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Lina Allemano Four, Matthew Shipp Trio & Maneri/Leandre/Taborn

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What's new? Lots of recent releases to dig into--from Toronto trumpeter Lina Allemano, Daniel Carter / William Parker / Leo Genovese / Francisco Mela for the first time, Matthew Shipp's re-release of em>Circular Temple, the trio of Mat Maneri, Joelle Leandre & Craig Taborn, Argentinean duo of bassist Nicolas Ojeda and pianist German Lema, Swedish quartet FLEN and Norwegian drummer Knut Kviste Nesheim, drummer Abbey Rader with Kidd Jordan, and the trio of Ivo Perelman, Aruan Ortiz and Lester St. ...

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Lina Allemano Four: Pipe Dream

Read "Pipe Dream" reviewed by Troy Dostert


Recorded in the winter of 2021 during the heart of the COVID pandemic, it is understandable that Pipe Dream, the latest offering from the Lina Allemano Four, has an air of ominous foreboding. Indeed, much of the album is devoted to the “Plague Diaries," a suite inspired by some of the darker themes of that period (with song titles like “Hunger and Murder" and “Doom and Doomer" giving an indication of what is in store). But like all of Allemano's ...

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Brilliant Corners 2023

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Brilliant Corners Black Box jny:Belfast, N. Ireland 2-11 March, 2023 One of the highlights of Belfast's music calendar, Brilliant Corners' eleventh annual shindig served up thirteen concerts over nine days. As ever, the main venue was Black Box, where audiences were treated to the best of Irish, British, European and North American jazz and improvised music. Heavy snow threatened to disrupt proceedings, while industrial action in France threw a slight spanner in the ...

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Tania Gill Quartet: Disappearing Curiosities

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Pianist Tania Gill has been making inspired music in the ever-thriving Toronto jazz scene since the early 2000s, although her output has become especially visible since her debut release Bolger Station (Barnyard Records, 2010). An artist equally attentive to melody and songcraft, Gill refuses to be pigeonholed, contributing to a range of projects which defy easy labeling; she appeared on vocalist Rebecca Hennessey's All the Little Things You Do (self-released, 2020), an album both jazz-inflected and pop-friendly, and on saxophonist ...

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Lina Allemano: gli album che sto ascoltando

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1. Ways + Toldam, Fortunes (LORNA Records, 2020). Album accattivante, fresco di stampa. I Ways sono un duo formato da Brodie West (sax alto) e Evan Cartwright (batteria) provenienti da Toronto. Mi mancano molto le loro esibizioni dal vivo che ogni volta mi trasportano in mondi lontani. Musica minimalista, riflessiva, elegante, magica, intrigante, semplicemente stupenda. E l'aggiunta del pianista Simon Toldam in questo album è splendida. 2. London Philharmonic Orchestra, Prokofiev: Complete Symphonies (Decca, 2014). ...

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Lina Allemano Four - USA Tour & "Jargon" CD Release, Oct 2010!

Lina Allemano Four - USA Tour & "Jargon" CD Release, Oct 2010!

Source: Michael Ricci

LINA ALLEMANO FOUR: Lina Allemano, trumpet Brodie West, alto saxophone Andrew Downing, double bass Nick Fraser, drums Toronto's cutting edge avant-jazz band, LINA ALLEMANO FOUR—known for their inventiveness and synergy—deftly blur the line between composition and improvisation. LINA ALLEMANO was featured as one of DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE's top innovative trumpeters for the future. The band has toured extensively over the past 5 years, having released two widely acclaimed CDs, and releasing their 3rd ...

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Recording

Lina Allemano Four's New CD "Gridjam" is Now Available!

Lina Allemano Four's New CD "Gridjam" is Now Available!

Source: All About Jazz

Lina Allemano Four's new CD Gridjam is now available! Read the latest reviews and purchase CDs at her website.

About Lina Allemano Lina Allemano is a Toronto based jazz trumpeter, improviser and composer with an established and active career performing, recording and touring internationally. Her trumpet playing, compositions, and artistic vision have gained her recognition in the media as being “adventurous, expressive, compelling, forward thinking, inventive, and sophisticated". As well as fronting her band Lina Allemano Four and the improvising ...

Please visit https://linaallemano.com/

Primary Instrument

Trumpet

Location

Toronto

Clinic/Workshop Information

Trumpet, Composition, Improvisation

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Pipe Dream

Lumo Records
2023

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Canons

Lumo Records
2023

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Disappearing...

Self Produced
2022

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Permanent Moving Parts

All-Set! Editions
2021

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Underground Over Night

From: Permanent Moving Parts
By Lina Allemano

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