Wednesday, August 14th, 2013Forward Energy players will perform a set of solos and duos followed by the full band.
1st Set:
Jim Ryan solo tenor sax 10min,
Rent Romus alto sax/C.J. Reaven Borosque cornet duo 12min,
Scott R. Looney solo piano 10min, Eric Marshall bass/
Timothy Orr percussion duo 12min.
2nd Set: The Forward Energy Band -
Jim Ryan alto/tenor sax, trumpet, flute •
Rent Romus alto/soprano/c-melody saxes & flutes • C. J. Borosque cornet •
Scott R. Looney piano • Eric Marshall double bass,
Timothy Orr percussion.
Forward Energy was founded in 1998 by
Jim Ryan and had its first gig at Radio Valencia in San Francisco that year. The group has gone through several incarnations employing top Bay Area musicians including: Eddie Gale of Cecil Taylor’s Unit Structures fame, Alicia Mangan, an extraordinarily advanced tenor player, and
Scott R. Looney. Forward Energy has played up and down the West Coast as well as in the Midwest and New York City. The current formation includes founder
Jim Ryan (who played on Steve Lacy’s weekly jam sessions in Paris during the early 70’s) on flute, saxes, and trumpet, and original member
Scott R. Looney on piano. Scott received his BA in music from Coe College, Iowa and an MFA from Cal Arts. He has been a pillar of the experimental music community since the late 90’s. The group also includes
Rent Romus on alto, soprano, and c-melody saxes; recently he has been branching out on flutes. He studied with Stan Getz and is a power both on his horn and as an organizer and promoter of the Bay Area experimental music community. C.J. Borosque came up in a musical family and learned the changes from her father in Santa Cruz before she went on to electronics and the noise scene. She plays cornet with Forward Energy. Eric Marshall is a regular bassist with Eddie Gale’s groups, fronts his own bands, and works in all genres of the jazz idiom. Percussionist
Timothy Orr learned drumming from Ed Blackwell and constant gigging with jazz and rock groups on the east coast. He plays all styles from zydeco to free jazz. Forward Energy CDs can be found on www.edgetonerecords.com/ryan.html and also on Cadence Jazz Records 1162.
Cost: 10-20
Videos featuring musicians playing at this event
Green Alembic at Berkeley Arts 5-17-14
Scott R. Looney, Lisa Mezzacapa, and Donald Robinson at Berkeley Arts Fest space - May 31, 2014
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