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Rent Romus' Life's Blood Ensemble at Ivy Room

Courtesy of Rent Romus | Posted on January 17, 2018

Where

Ivy Room
860 San Pablo Ave.
Albany, CA
Map

When

Wed, February 21, 2018
9:00 pm

Musicians

Rent Romus
saxophone, alto
Joshua Marshall
saxophone, tenor
Safa Shokrai
bass, acoustic
Mark Clifford
vibraphone

About

Richmond-based saxophonist/composer Rent Romus commences a three-month mini-residency featuring his Life's Blood Ensemble celebrating the release of their new recording Rogue Star coming out Feb 21 on Edgetone Records!

About Life's Blood Ensemble
Created in 1999 by saxophonist Rent Romus while on tour in northern Europe, LBE pays tribute as well as brings to light, reinvents, deconstructs, and breathes life into the deeper realms of their collective body of memory. Performing original music, as well as contemporary local and international composers, they explore the influences and inspirations that make the art of jazz and improvisation timeless. Their latest album Rising Colossus (2016) "offers an incisive and often exhilarating glimpse at a scene that Romus has played an essential role in shaping. Life's Blood Ensemble dives headlong into a disparate array of compositions, opening and closing the album with very different works inspired by epic tales..." (Andrew Gilbert SF Chron)...

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