Red Emma’s

2640 is thrilled to host some amazing free improvisers from near and far. Early show, 6 - 9 pm, $5 - $10 sliding scale. Hope to see you! LINA ALLEMANO FOUR (free-jazz) 10th Year Anniversary Tour: Lina Allemano, trumpet Brodie West, alto saxophone Andrew Downing, double bass Nick Fraser, drums www.linaallemano.com Canadian trumpeter Lina Allemano is quickly emerging as "one of the most exciting new voices of the last few years" [Point of Departure] and was named one of DownBeat Magazine's top innovative trumpeters for the future. Hailed as one of Canada's leading avant-garde/free-jazz bands, her band 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 for the past 10 years all across Europe, USA and Canada. Their music has been described as abstract melodicism, combining lush colours with dense free-flowing rhythmic textures. "Lina Allemano and her band have created an eclectic sound that makes its own synthesis of tradition and avant-garde, of structure and freedom, of clever composition and emotional depth, of abstraction and warmth… beautiful, moving, and fun." (Free Jazz, Belgium). The band's 4th internationally-acclaimed album, Live at the Tranzac, has been receiving very favourable attention from reviewers internationally, making a splash particularly in Europe and USA. The band tours USA in Oct 2015 on their 10th Year Anniversary Tour, generously sponsored by Canada Council for the Arts. Lina Allemano Four on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXMbJt2ZvgY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APeahXEM_Ig Derrick Michaels is a tenor and soprano saxophonist based in Baltimore. His trio, featuring Alex weber on bass and Mike Kuhl on drums, challenges the expectations of jazz purists and stalwart experimentalists alike. The group refuses to settle for the clichéd gestures that abound in either idiom, allowing the music to soar without constraint.