Oakland Freedom Jazz Society Presents
Rent Romus' Life's Blood Septet + John Krausbauer
Mark Clifford, vibraphone, Max Judelson - double bass,
Heikki Koskinen, electronic trumpet, tenor recorder,
Joshua Marshall, tenor saxophone,
Timothy Orr, drums,
Rent Romus, alto saxophone, flute, Safa Shokrai, double bass
Rent Romus’ Life’s Blood ensemble performs the “Rising Colossus Suite”, an exploration emergence and multiple movements. Life’s Blood seeks to create new ways of expression in essence paying a tribute to that which make us what we are today. They explore the music of originality by its members, the surrounding community, and from those who have come before. It is that life’s blood that fuels inspiration, and sustains a deep ability to create in us all.
Compositions by
Josh Allen, Anthony Braxton,
Brett Carson,
Joshua Marshall,
Rent Romus, and John Tchicai
+
john krausbauer's beats
"beats" is a new composition-improvisation by john krausbauer, for three accordions. multiple pattern-variations in a closely tuned vhf range produce a dynamic field of beating patterns, difference tones, acoustic phenomena, and inner ear auditory hallucination.
john krausbauer, accordion
aaron openheim, accordion
ven voisey, accordion
Cost: $10-15 sliding
Videos featuring musicians playing at this event
A montage of the free music group the Lords of Outland from their live presented as part of The Tenderloin Museum’s Sounds of the Tenderloin live music series at the Tenderloin National Forest in San Francisco July of 2022
Featuring Rent Romus on alto/soprano saxophones, Ray Schaeffer on bass, Anthony Flores on drums, and Philip Everett on