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Mike Allemana

About Me

Guitarist with tenor saxist Von Freeman since 1997. I have my own band with Geof Bradfield, Ted Sirota, and Matt Ferguson. Vocalist Gingi Lahera and I have a duo. My musical interests lie in all things interesting. The musicians I have played with: Charles Earland, Lonnie Smith, Ron Dewar, Lin Halliday, Mickey Roker, Jimmy Cobb, Sergio Assad, Dennis Carroll, George Fludas, Pete Benson, Perry Wilson, Pat Malinger, Robert Berry, Jon Logan, Chris Foreman, Hinda Hoffman, Kimberly Gordon.I compose, improvise, practice my guitar, fix my guitar, play with Gabriela, love Maria, cook, drink wine, speak Portuguese, travel in Brazil, love baseball (White Sox), talk about politics and life with my friend Matt Ferguson, bounce my musical ideas off of Geof Bradfield, complain about the music scene with Dennis Carroll, love to go hear Bobby Broom, Jeff Parker, Dave Miller, Scott Hesse, Andy Brown, Peter Bernstein, Kyle Asche, Nick Fryer, Alejandro Ursegaste, Neal Alger, all the Chicago guitarists play guitar, read, think, and listen to Von Freeman.Examples from "Jazz Guitar Etudes": You should create your own MySpace Layouts like me by using nUCLEArcENTURy .COM's MySpace Profile Editor !

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 06/08/2006
Band Website: http://www.mikeallemana.com
Band Members: 4tet:Geof Bradfield-saxes Matt Ferguson-bass Jon Deitemyer-Drums
Influences: Von Freeman, Charlie Parker, Steve Coleman, Ron Dewar, Lin Halliday, Hermeto Pascoal, Wes Montgomery, Grant Green, Kenny Burrell, all Chicago guitarists, all World guitarists, McCoy Tyner, Herbie Hancock, Ron Perrillo, Dennis Carroll, Noam Chomsky, poets, Geof Bradfield, Brian O'Hern, Nanas and Papas, Maria Allemana, Gabriela Allemana, Chalice and Tom, Norman Finkelstein, Gingi Lahera, Paulinho Garcia, Lenny Lynn, Hinda Hoffman, etc.
Sounds Like: Me
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

New Track--Gingi Lahera and The Model Citizens

One of my favorite tunes that Gingi and I perform is the song "Encontros E Despididas" by Milton Nascimento.  We have our own version of it with lots of our own material added to it.  I deci...
Posted by on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:11:00 GMT

More Lenny Lynn tracks

I just posted some more tracks with the great Lenny Lynn at www.mikeallemana.comTed Sirota recorded these at our last gig w/ Lenny.  Just trying to get the word out that Lenny exists.  He ha...
Posted by on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 08:03:00 GMT

Exchanging concepts with musicians

I would like to start a conversation with any musicians interested in discussing harmonic/ rhythmic/whatever concepts.  For the past few years Steve Coleman has been teaching me some theoretical ...
Posted by on Thu, 17 Aug 2006 20:17:00 GMT

re-do on the posted tracks

I'm still learning this MySpace thing.  I had a problem uploading the Steve Coleman performance, so I have divided it into three parts, Steve's solo, my solo, and the Jam.  I have also poste...
Posted by on Sun, 06 Aug 2006 17:55:00 GMT

Starting on the 64 paths

The first recording on this page is a time Steve Coleman sat in with Vonski at the New Apartment Lounge in 2003.  Steve is a very generous person, and always plays late into the night with us and...
Posted by on Sun, 06 Aug 2006 11:32:00 GMT