LINA ALLEMANO FOUR
>> NEW RELEASE on Lumo Records:
The Diptychs by LINA ALLEMANO FOUR
Available exclusively on Bandcamp
"Once more, the ensemble delivers a compelling set of originals that balance elegant and at times challenging writing with free improvisation in a way that sounds simultaneously timeless and cutting-edge. The Diptychs demonstrates the inexhaustible potential of the chordless quartet and the boundless imagination of one of the best composers in jazz today." - Jim Marks, Dusted Magazine
“With The Diptychs, Allemano and her quartet offer music that is at once conceptually rigorous and deeply playful. The album thrives on interdependence: No voice dominates, no gesture exists in isolation. Instead, ideas refract, reshape and echo across the ensemble, much like the visual art form that inspired it. The result is a body of music that feels both meticulously composed and spontaneously alive—an exploration of balance, contrast and the creative space that emerges in between.” - Mark Corroto, All About Jazz
LINA ALLEMANO FOUR
LINA ALLEMANO trumpet, compositions
BRODIE WEST alto saxophone
ANDREW DOWNING double bass
NICK FRASER drums
>> LINA ALLEMANO FOUR named in DownBeat Magazine's Annual International Critics Poll 4 years in a row 2025, 2024, 2023 & 2022 for 'Rising Star Jazz Group' !
>> LINA ALLEMANO FOUR's album VEGETABLES nominated for 2022 JUNO Awards 'Jazz Album of the Year (Group)' !
LINA ALLEMANO FOUR is an acoustic chamber-jazz quartet that plays Allemano’s original music, written specifically for the group with a mandate of strong group interaction, improvisation, and sonic exploration. Each member of the group is a creative and highly expressive soloist and improviser in their own right, bringing equally important and distinctive musical character and contributions to the band’s collective sound since 2005.
Hailed as one of Canada’s leading cutting-edge ensembles, LINA ALLEMANO FOUR is known internationally for their inventiveness, playfulness, and synergy as they deftly blur the line between composition and improvisation. The band has been touring extensively since 2005 all across Europe, USA and Canada. Their music has been described as abstract melodicism, combining lush colours with dense free-flowing rhythmic textures. The band’s first 5 albums received many accolades internationally, and their 6th release on LUMO RECORDS, VEGETABLES, received even more international praise and recognition than any of their previous releases, garnering a JUNO Award nomination in 2022 for Jazz Album of the Year (Group). Their 7th album PIPE DREAM on LUMO RECORDS was called "One of the year’s most significant jazz recordings"... [Stuart Broomer, The WholeNote]. Their 8th and newest album THE DIPTYCHS was premiered at Jazzfest Berlin 2025.
"Rooted in a dynamic, creative tradition with an openness to the imminent possibilities of the musical moment" - Stuart Broomer, Musicworks Magazine
"Listening and reacting to each other almost telepathically" - S. Victor Aaron, Something Else! Reviews
"Elements of tradition and experimentation collide fascinatingly" - Stef Gijssels, The Free Jazz Collective
BAND DISCOGRAPHY on LUMO RECORDS:
Lina Allemano Four, The Diptychs (2025)
Lina Allemano Four, Pipe Dream (2023)
Lina Allemano Four, Vegetables (2021)
Lina Allemano Four, Sometimes Y (2017)
Lina Allemano Four, Live at the Tranzac (2012)
Lina Allemano Four, Jargon (2010)
Lina Allemano Four, Gridjam (2008)
Lina Allemano Four, Pinkeye (2006)
