Life's Blood Ensemble Side Two: Rising Colossus Revisited at Ivy Room

9pm doors
9:30pm Ushi-matsuri Ritual marking the day the International Labour Organization was founded
9:35pm Life's Blood Ensemble

FREE | donations wildly appreciated

Richmond-based saxophonist/composer Rent Romus continues his mini-residency featuring his Life's Blood Ensemble, this time recreating their 2017 recording Rising Colossus in its entirety.

About Life's Blood Ensemble
Created in 1999 by saxophonist Rent Romus while on tour in northern Europe, LBE pays tribute as well as brings to light, reinvents, deconstructs, and breathes life into the deeper realms of their collective body of memory...

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9pm doors
9:30pm Ushi-matsuri Ritual marking the day the International Labour Organization was founded
9:35pm Life's Blood Ensemble

FREE | donations wildly appreciated

Richmond-based saxophonist/composer Rent Romus continues his mini-residency featuring his Life's Blood Ensemble, this time recreating their 2017 recording Rising Colossus in its entirety.

About Life's Blood Ensemble
Created in 1999 by saxophonist Rent Romus while on tour in northern Europe, LBE pays tribute as well as brings to light, reinvents, deconstructs, and breathes life into the deeper realms of their collective body of memory. Performing original music, as well as contemporary local and international composers, they explore the influences and inspirations that make the art of jazz and improvisation timeless. Their latest album Rising Colossus (2017) "offers an incisive and often exhilarating glimpse at a scene that Romus has played an essential role in shaping. Life's Blood Ensemble dives headlong into a disparate array of compositions, opening and closing the album with very different works inspired by epic tales..." (Andrew Gilbert SF Chron)

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