Serving the San Francisco Bay Area New Music Community

Tue, Dec 14 2010 9:00 PM

Ivy Room
860 San Pablo Ave near Solano Ave Albany
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1)Sabbaticus Rex w/Karen Stackpole & Cornelius Boots,Sabbaticus Rex is an ensemble rooted in the supremacy of sound over music, the triumph of tone over time and thought, an adventure into vibrations, a meditation on sound itself.

2)Forward Energy w/Jim Ryan sax&flute, Rent Romus sax, Scott R. Looney piano, Eric Marshall db,& Tim Orr drums. Forward Energy has provided bay area listeners with powerhouse jazz improvisation since the late,late 20th Century.

3) The Grimy Interiors w/Darren Johnston trumpet, Myles Boisen guitar, & John Hanes drums. The Grimy Interiors creates a sound that is hard to categorize: a spontaneous, melodic, textural music,with blues roots and avant leanings.

Cost: Free
Audio samples in which musicians at this event play:
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