ACTUAL/ACTUAL & 52ND STREET PLANETARY ENSEMBLE
Sat, Oct 14
|Philadelphia
People's Music Supply's 52nd Street Planetary Ensemble opens up the evening. Thomas Patteson on Alto Sax, Ryoko Ohara on Alto Sax, Ihba Baskette on Tenor Sax and reeds, Anthony Bayne Senior on Tenor Sax, Sequoyah Leaf on Clarinet, Heather Gardner on violin/viola, Chip Swartz on percussion and Max
Time & Location
Oct 14, 2023, 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Philadelphia, 607 Bainbridge St, Philadelphia, PA 19147, USA
About the event
Rent Romus is an Emmy award winning saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist, composer, bandleader, music producer, and community activist. Since 1988, his work on the saxophone has been dubbed “ferocious” by the San Francisco Weekly and “central to the creative music world of the West Coast” by writer Frank Rubolino. He leads the Lords of Outland a free improvisation unit, the Life’s Blood Ensemble a composition based contemporary group, and the Otherworld Ensemble a Finnish/American collective exploring new perspectives in heritage and traditional folk. He has recorded over 50 albums exploring a wide variety of musical settings which have included beat poet founder ruth weiss, and creative music pioneers Chico Freeman, John Tchicai, and Vinny Golia, Teppo Hauta-aho, Heikki Koskinen, Thollem McDonas, Stefan Pasborg, Marcos Fernandez, and Ernesto Diaz-Infante to name a few. He is the founder of Edgetone Records a community driven label with over 30 years…