Sunday, January 22 - 7 to 9 p.m.
Cover: $5 / pay what you can
The Titanium Trio
- Lina Allemano - trumpet
- Nick Fraser - drums
- Rob Clutton - Fender bass
The Titanium Trio is a unique ensemble with its own distinctive and somewhat unusual stripped-down-to-the-bone sound: trumpet, Fender bass, drums. The group plays bandleader/trumpeter Lina Allemano’s new original “avant-prog-jazz” music, blurring the line between composition and improvisation. Although the trio is a relatively new group, the members have an 18-year history of close musical collaborations in various creative projects such as “N”, The Lina Allemano Four, Cluttertones, Drumheller, and others.
Find Titanium Trio online at: www.linaallemano.com
Lina Allemano is a fine trumpet player with several albums to her credit. Based in Toronto, she has played across Canada with many top jazz artists, including Tim Postgate, Dave McMurdo, George Koller, NOJO, Darcy James Argue's Secret Society, and her own group, the Lina Allemano Four. Here in Ottawa, she she was an outstanding soloist with the Impressions in Jazz Orchestra in their 2007 production of The Genius of Gil Evans. She was nominated for both best Trumpeter and SOCAN Composer of the Year in the 2009 National Jazz Awards.
YouTube video of "Jargon": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXMbJt2ZvgY
Presented by: Improvising Musicians of Ottawa/Outaouais (IMOO)
IMOO are group of musicians who, drawing on jazz, classical, folk and rock traditions, are dedicated to the exploration of contemporary practice in improvisation. They are interested in exploring different practices and means of communication, including, but not limited to, verbal, visual, auditory, gestural, concrete and abstract. They are a platform and resource for emerging artists to present their work and/or collaborate with other artists and exist as a means to community development and networking, bringing artists together, and presenting their work to a broad audience.
An encomium from local jazz radio host Bernard Stepien: "the IMOO series is a resounding success. As some local Jazz ayatollahs would say, avant-garde Jazz in Ottawa usually doesn't attract more than a half-dozen highly mystical listeners. The IMOO people have successfully proved them wrong."
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