Tania Gill Quartet - Disappearing Curiosities (March 11, 2022)

Tania Gill is a pianist, keyboardist and composer living in Toronto Canada. She leads the Tania Gill Quartet and plays with the Brodie West Quintet, the Titillators, Rebecca Hennessy, the See Through Trio, Woodshed Orchestra and many others in jazz, improvised, new music, creative and pop circles in Toronto and beyond.

1. Marsh Music

2. To Montreal

3. Jaunty Woo

4. Tangled Branches (For Geri Allen)

5. Climate Striker

6. People Gonna Rise Like the Water

7. Apology

8. Frisbee

9. Knocked Over

TANIA GILL \ piano \ (moog) mg-1 synthesizer

LINA ALLEMANO \ trumpet

ROB CLUTTON \ bass

NICO DANN \ drums

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Tania Gill - Bolger Station

Tania Gill is a pianist, keyboardist and composer living in Toronto Canada. She leads the Tania Gill Quartet and plays with the Brodie West Quintet, the Titillators, Rebecca Hennessy, the See Through Trio, Woodshed Orchestra and many others in jazz, improvised, new music, creative and pop circles in Toronto and beyond.

1. Bolger Station 03:47

2. Magpie 03:04

3. By Ear 06:08

4. Paso 04:58

5. On My Sleeve 02:12

6. Maple Leaf Waltz 01:57

7. Bicycle 03:57

8. Prelude to Ah Ti Tah 02:00

9. Ah Ti Tah 03:24

10. Gaggle 00:43

11. Up Down 03:15

12. Lakeshore 04:52

13. It Never Entered My Mind 04:34

Tania Gill - piano, organ, voice

Lina Allemano - trumpet

Clinton Ryder - bass

Jean Martin - drums

All tunes by Tania Gill, SOCAN 2010

except: On My Sleeve by Peter Johnston

It Never Entered My Mind by Rodgers and Hart

Maple Leaf Waltz by Wilf Carter

Mixed and Mastered by Jean Martin at The Farm, Toronto ON Canada

Photos by Sara Gill and Brian Goodwill, Design by Jean Martin

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Lina Allemano & Nick Fraser + Remixes by Mira Martin-Gray, Bryan Qu, Karen Ng, Nick Dunston - Trumpet & Drums REMIX Festival (November 2021)

++ SERIAL DIGITAL ALBUM IN 5 WEEKLY INSTALLMENTS ++

The entire album is now online! 2 tracks were released every Monday for 5 weeks from Oct 4 - Nov 1, 2021. Unadulterated trumpet & drums duo tracks: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 10. Remix tracks: 2, 4, 6, 8.

Lina Allemano, trumpet & Nick Fraser, drums + Remix artists from New York City, Berlin & Toronto: Mira Martin-Gray, Bryan Qu, Karen Ng, Nick Dunston.

1. ORANGE 04:38

2. Brass Slippers 03:59

3. Other Ways (number one) 04:05

4. Inorganic 04:28

5. LEMON 05:17

6. Linick 2.0 05:00

7. Deadly Night Shade 04:37

8. A Bashful Droid 05:54

9. LIME 04:33

10. Other Ways (number two) 04:05

Lina Allemano, trumpet

Nick Fraser, drums

Mira Martin-Gray, remixing (track 2)

Bryan Qu, composer/producer (track 4)

Karen Ng, sax/synth/processing/editing (track 6)

Nick Dunston, prepared banjo/processed samples/hacked tape cassette player (track 8)

Produced by Lina Allemano & Nick Fraser

Trumpet & drums recorded by Fedge at Union Sound Company in Toronto on Jan 15, 2021

Remix tracks contain recorded materials from this same studio session

Tracks 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10 mixed by Fedge

All tracks mastered by Fedge

ORANGE, LEMON, & LIME composed by Lina Allemano (SOCAN)

Other Ways (number one) & Other Ways (number two) composed by Nick Fraser (SOCAN)

Deadly Night Shade composed by Lina Allemano & Nick Fraser (SOCAN)

Brass Slippers composed by Mira Martin-Gray (SOCAN)

Inorganic composed by Bryan Qu (SOCAN)

Linick 2.0 composed by Karen Ng (SOCAN)

A Bashful Droid composed by Nick Dunston (ASCAP)

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BLOOP (Lina Allemano / Mike Smith) - Proof (April 11, 2021)

1. Decanted

3. Recanting

4. Oracle of Chanterelle

5. Actual Bloop

6. The Nestlings (Metamorphosis)

7. Cremini Oracle

8. The Summoning

Lina Allemano, trumpet / mutes / percussion / whistling

Mike Smith, live-processing / effects

All songs by Lina Allemano / Mike Smith

Produced by Lina Allemano

Recorded at All-Set Coin Recording in Toronto on July 1-3, 2020

Recorded and mixed by Mike Smith

Mastered by Fedge

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Lina Allemano Four - Vegetables (April 11, 2021)

1. Onions

2. Beans

3. Champignons

4. Brussel Sprouts, Maybe Cabbage

5. Oh Avocado

6. Leafy Greens

Lina Allemano, trumpet / compositions

Brodie West, alto saxophone

Andrew Downing, double bass

Nick Fraser, drums

All songs by Lina Allemano

Produced by Lina Allemano

Recorded at Union Sound Company in Toronto on Jan 3 & 4, 2020

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Fedge

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Hary Vetro's NORTHERN RANGER

In 2017, as Canada celebrated 150 years of confederation, 23 year old Hamilton drummer Harry Vetro took to the road. He traveled coast to coast, visiting communities in Canada's six indigenous cultural areas (Arctic, Subarctic, Northwest Coast, Plateau, Plains, and Eastern Woodlands) in an effort to connect with musicians and artists from different cultural backgrounds, and to better understand the land's long cultural history.

Northern Ranger - Vetro's debut album - tells the story of his travels. A jazz musician by training, Harry melded his own style of improvised music with folk and classical influences to create a deeply personal statement, one that speaks to the country as a whole. 

A recent graduate of the University of Toronto Jazz program, Vetro leads an active performing career, Past performances include the TD Toronto Jazz Festival, Ottawa Jazz Festival and Orillia Jazz Festival. 

Proceeds from this album will assist in starting an outreach initiative for youth with limited access to music education. The program will be titled "Northern Ranger Outreach" and Vetro will be partnering with his father, who is an educator and musician with connections in the school system. 

Northern Ranger will be released on Friday, October 19th on T.Sound Records.

Harry Vetro - Drums

Lina Allemano - Trumpet

Harrison Argatoff - Saxophone

Dan Pitt - Guitar

Ian McGimpsey - Guitar

Noah Franche-Nolan - Piano

Jacob Thompson - Piano

Andrew Downing - Bass

Phil Albert - Bass

Jessica Deutsch - Violin

Aline Homzy - Violin

Anna Atkinson - Viola

Andrew Downing - Cello

Dikeman / Allemano / Baggiani / Svirsky - The 2nd Path To NowHere (FLEA BOY RECORDS 2018)

The 2nd Path To NowHere” was released on February 21, 2018 by “FLEA BOY RECORDS”. Album was recorded by interesting and original jazz masters – Lina Allemano (trumpet), John Dikeman (tenor sax), Leo Svirsy (piano) and Marcos Baggiani (drums). All these four musicians are creative and talented jazz musicians – their original and innovative playing style is full of unpredictable stylistic waves, spontaneous musical decisions, extraordinary and dynamic sound and many other things. Because of creative, fascinating and interesting improvising the musicians are famous and active members of avant-garde jazz scene – they are concerting in various world countries, playing and collaborating together with other various avant-garde jazz masters. Their playing style is based on synthesis of different jazz styles – avant-garde jazz, free-jazz, creative jazz and other experimental jazz styles are combined together with bebop, post-bop, hard-bop and other intonations of modern and traditional jazz styles. Musicians masterfully combine all these elements together in one place and create energetic, active, vivid, gorgeous and bright sound.

This album compositions have original and dynamic sound. The synthesis between avant-garde jazz, bebop, hard-bop, post-bop, some intonations of cool and various traditional jazz styles, are the main element of this album compositions. Free, wild and spontaneous collective improvisations are full of different stylistic waves, unpredictable and sudden turns and surprises. All four musicians are improvising passionately and expressively. Trumpet melodies by Lina Allemano are full of many different musical language elements, which are masterfully combined together. Wild fast and furious solos, aggressive, provocative, rigorous and very sharp sounds, powerful and vibrant blow outs, stunning musical experiments and special effects are gently combined together with soft, memorable, melodic and romantic melodies.

She tries out many innovative and experiment ways of playing – organically combines together sudden and colorful trills, virtuosic and wild fast passages, gorgeous and interesting glissando and other traditional playing techniques with experimental and fascinating methods of playing. The improvisations by Lina Allemano are unpredictable and dynamic – the sound is always changing and never stays the same. Musician express many different moods, characters and create contrasting music elements – the sound of their improvisations sometimes is soft, lyrical and nostalgic or  very dramatic, loud, powerful and vibrant.

From the silent, abstract and subtle episodes her improvisations turn out to expressive, wild fast, harsh, sharp, dramatic, bright and turbulent culminations. Tenor sax improvisations by John Dikeman are as much expressive and interesting as trumpet melodies. Improviser also is playing especially expressive, bravely and creatively tries out new and unusual ways of playing, puts together many different music styles, which are the opposites to each other. His improvisations are based on contrasts – silent and extremely loud, vivacious and tragic, harsh and soft, depressive and joyful and many other different moods, characters and expressions are gently combined in his improvisations. Piano improvisations by Leo Svirsy are based on avant-garde jazz elements and form the harmonic basement of the compositions. Sharp, aggressive and provocative dissonances create dramatic, active, interesting and expressive harmonic background.

Virtuosic passages, turbulent and fascinating piano solos, wild fast passages and arpeggios, sudden glissando and many other traditional playing techniques are used together with innovative ways of playing. Marcos Baggiani drums form and keep firm, outstanding and solid bass line and drum section. His improvisations gently fit together with other musicians playing – for the most of the time he improvises very expressive, vivid, passionate and striking.

Marcos Baggiani  improvisations have especially rich and bright musical pattern, are contained by many different types of rhythms and basic rhythmic formulas of various jazz styles. Album improvisations have bright, vivacious, vivid, deep and vibrant sound.

1. The 2nd Path To NowHere 14:15

2. Mr. John abrió la puerta 06:57

3. BAM! 03:14

4. Under Leo's Sign 05:18

5. Dialogen 01:29

6. Popolocotocopoco 06:49

7. A Rare Sweetness 02:28

8. The Beginning 08:10

Lina Allemano: Trumpet

John Dikeman: Tenor sax

Leo Svirsy: Piano

Marcos Baggiani: Drums