20th Season opening concert7:30 pm Weeks/Sato/Carson
Tom Weeks - saxophones, Kazuto Sato - bass,
Brett Carson - piano,
Aaron Levin - drums
8:30 pm Guinea Pig plays "The New Neighbors" CD release performance
Timothy Orr - drums/percussion
Rent Romus - alto, soprano, c-melody saxophones, bells
Robert Kuhlmann - electric bass
Tony Passarell - tenor saxophone, coronet, percussion/bells
Guinea Pig is the brainchild of multi-instrumentalist Tony Passarell. In 1995 the group was specifically formed for performance presented at the former Dark Circle Lounge Series which had been curated by percussionist
Gino Robair. After a few years had passed Romus found the live recording from that performance which became their first album release ‘Out of Town’ in 2004. Almost two decades later The ‘New Neighbors’ manifest in the tradition of the DIY spirit the band was originally formed to explore. This long awaited second release features music culminated from a live performance at
Rent Romus’ curated SIMM series at the San Francisco’s Local 6 Union Hall.
Tom Weeks is a composer, improviser, and saxophonist from Oakland, CA. He has received a Bachelor's degree in Jazz Composition from Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA, and a Master's degree in Composition from Mills College, Oakland, CA. He has studied with Roscoe Mitchell, Fred Frith, Zeena Parkins, Pauline Oliveros, Chris Brown, W.A. Mathieu, Steve Adams, Richard Evans, and Phil Wilson, among others. His music is influenced by various African-American musical traditions, the historical avant-garde, and the heavy metal and hardcore traditions; utilizing improvisation, extended techniques, and traditional and experimental notational practices. He has worked with musicians such as Alvin Curran, Makoto Kawabata, Ricardo Descalzo, The MolOt Ensemble, Jack Wright, Arrington De Dionyso, Hans Koch, Walter Thompson, Vinny Golia, William Winant, G. Calvin Weston, members of the ROVA saxophone quartet, and Henry Kaiser, among many others. In addition to leading the bands Ero Guro and BEER, as well as performing with the ensemble TONED, his frequent collaborators include Camille Emaille, Nathan Corder, gabby fluke-mogul, and Kevin Murray.
Cost: sliding scale $10-20
Videos featuring musicians playing at this event
Gino Robair and John Butcher, 2008
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