Rent Romus Rustbelt Ensemble at Bop Stop

New Ghosts and The Bop Stop at The Music Settlement proudly present the world premiere performance of...
RENT ROMUS' RUST BELT ENSEMBLE

Formed specifically for this occasion, the RRRB Ensemble joins musicians from San Francisco, Cleveland and Columbus who have never played as a group before: from SF, Rent Romus (leader, reeds); from C'BUS, Gerard Cox (piano) and Hasan Abdur Razzaq (saxophones, cello), who play together in the group Wizards; and from CLE, Bbob Drake (modular electronics), Alex Henry (saxophones) and J Guy Laughlin, Jr. (percussion), who play together in the group Baekdudaegan....

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New Ghosts and The Bop Stop at The Music Settlement proudly present the world premiere performance of...
RENT ROMUS' RUST BELT ENSEMBLE

Formed specifically for this occasion, the RRRB Ensemble joins musicians from San Francisco, Cleveland and Columbus who have never played as a group before: from SF, Rent Romus (leader, reeds); from C'BUS, Gerard Cox (piano) and Hasan Abdur Razzaq (saxophones, cello), who play together in the group Wizards; and from CLE, Bbob Drake (modular electronics), Alex Henry (saxophones) and J Guy Laughlin, Jr. (percussion), who play together in the group Baekdudaegan.

Hailed by Downbeat as having "a bold sound, unmistakable sincerity and conviction," Rent Romus "swings like death and hell" according to the late Danish writer and producer Jack Lind. Born in the upper peninsula of Michigan and raised in the San Francisco Bay area, Romus' work on the saxophone has been dubbed “ferocious” by the San Francisco Weekly and “central to the creative music world of the West Coast” by writer jazz critic Frank Rubolino. He also runs the label Edgetone Records.

From his very beginnings as a student of jazz while being exposed to the twilight tutelage of Stan Getz, Romus found himself drawn to the outer realms of Sun Ra and Albert Ayler, as well as Derek Bailey and Merzbow. Exploring improvisation and composition in a wide variety of musical settings, he has recorded on over 35 albums to critical acclaim while helping to build and support the music community in the San Francisco Bay area. Nevertheless, Romus still feels a strong connection to his Midwest roots: “every time I return to the Midwest where my family has lived for generations,” says Romus, “I feel a sense of completion I don’t get anywhere else. What better way to express that than to create with members of the jazz and improvised music communities.”

http://www.romus.net/
http://www.edgetonerecords.com/

Following the Bop Stop performance, the Ensemble will join Tom Orange, WCSB Jazz Director and host of the weekly freeform radio program “The Brewing Luminous," for a live on-air conversation and performance Thursday, June 11, 11:00am-12:30pm (89.3 FM with streaming at wcsb.org).

http://wcsb.org/programs/program-details/?show=78

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