Edgetone Records celebrates 35 years
on planet Earth with a series of show
Edgetone Records celebrates 35 years
on planet Earth with a series of showcase performances in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Rent Romus' Life's Blood Ensemble
The Holly Martins
Free Admission
$10 suggested cover
Rent Romus' Life's Blood Ensemble pays tribute as well as brings to light, reinvents, deconstructs, and delves into the deep realms of their collective vision. Their repertoire features original composition and contemporary local and international composers while exploring the influences and inspirations of jazz and improvisation. The Life's Blood began in 1999 while Romus was on tour in Northern Europe as a trio with Danish drummer Stefan Pasborg and bassist Jonas Westergaard. Returning to the San Francisco Bay Area, Romus recreated and expanded the roster to feature some of the best musicians the San Francisco region has to offer presenting a broad range of original music from expansive thematic jazz suites to composers' forums and features.
Rent Romus•alto saxophone Timothy Orr•drums/percussion Safa Shokrai•double bass Max Judelson•double bass
Heikki "Mike" Koskinen•e-trumpet/recorder Joshua Marshall•tenor saxophone Mark Clifford•vibraphone
Named after the main character in the classic postwar film, The Third Man, The Holly Martins is a trio of Bay Area musicians dedicated to exploring the boundaries of jazz-infused improvised music, but without the trappings of a traditional "rhythm section". This configuration requires each individual to simultaneously take on multiple roles typically assigned individual players (soloist versus accompanist), thereby promoting more open-ended explorations of the material. As to said material, The Holly Martins often construct mutations of normal jazz standards, transformed from their more familiar forms in the time domain. Likewise, their original compositions are often "jazz-like", but with twists and turns such as asymmetric harmonic rhythms, cycling rhythmic and pitch patterns, etc.
Kasey Knudsen - Alto Saxophone
Eric Vogler - Guitar
Lorin Benedict - Voice
Cost: $0-10