Lina Allemano Four

Lina Allemano Four: The Diptychs

by Mark Corroto
November 1, 2025

Lina Allemano Four's The Diptychs presents three pairs of compositions, inspired by the visual art concept of placing two panels side by side. Just as diptychs in painting create meaning through contrast and dialogue, Allemano's music fashions reciprocal, interdependent sound worlds within each pair. A restless and inventive presence, Allemano splits her time between Toronto and Berlin. Trained in both classical and jazz trumpet, she leads the electric power trio Ohrenschmaus, the pseudo-psychedelic improvising quartet Titanium Riot, and ...

Lina Allemano Four: The Diptychs

by Troy Dostert
October 20, 2025

Maintaining its biennial release pattern going back to 2021's Vegetables (Lumo Records) and 2023's Pipe Dream (Lumo Records), The Lina Allemano Four once again strikes gold with The Diptychs, another of the group's ventures into its signature territory. With artful, multilayered themes that generate nuanced four-way dialogues, this is music born of the close collaboration that trumpeter Allemano has long championed, and her most accomplished working band is once again in top form. Built around six relatively compact ...

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

Source: Michael Ricci
September 14, 2010

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

Source: All About Jazz
November 14, 2008

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 ...
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