Date/Time
Date(s) - 07/16/2015
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Location
509 Cultural Gallery
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$6-$15 Sliding Scale
- 8pm: Jordan Glenn / Rent Romus duo
- 9pm: Matt Herman – solo electric guitar
San Francisco-based extended-range guitarist/looper with Storm Door, Disonova, and solo. Matt has logged about 20 years on the electric guitar, and has employed live looping techniques since 2001. Matt’s guitar style has been influenced by the concept of extended-range guitar: a lower bass range that extends through a normal guitar’s upper range. All loops are set up live and in the moment.
Jordan Glenn spent his formative years in Oregon drawing cartoons, taking dance classes from his aunt, and putting on plays with his sisters. As he got older he began making movies with his friends and studying jazz, classical, and rock music. In 2003 Glenn received a bachelor’s degree in Jazz Studies from the University of Oregon.
In 2006 he relocated to the Bay Area, received a masters degree from Mills College and since has worked closely with Fred Frith, William Winant, Zeena Parkins, Roscoe Mitchell, ROVA Sax Quartet, Ben Goldberg, Todd Sickafoose, John Schott, Dominique Leone, Aaron Novik, Darren Johnston, Aram Shelton, Cory Wright, Lisa Mezzacappa, Karl Evangelista, Michael Coleman, Matthew Welch and the bands Jack O’ The Clock, Arts & Sciences, 20 Minute Loop, Beep!, tUnE-yArDs, and the Oakland Active Orchestra.
Hailed by Downbeat as having “…a bold sound, unmistakeable sincerity and conviction”, Rent Romus “swings like death and hell” according to the late Danish writer and producer Jack Lind. Born in the great north of upper Michigan and growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area, Romus’ 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 jazz critic Frank Rubolino. From his very beginnings as a student of jazz while being exposed to the twilight tutelage of Stan Getz he found himself drawn to the outer realms of Sun Ra and Albert Ayler, as well as Derek Bailey and Merzbow. Exploring improvisation and composition in a wide variety of musical settings he has recorded on over 35 albums to critical acclaim while helping to build and support the music community in the San Francisco Bay Area.