Rent Romus

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Rent Romus (2009)

Rent Romus (* 6. January 1968 in Michigan as Aaron Repke ) is an American jazz - and improvisational musician ( saxophone , composition ).

Live and act

Rent Romus comes from a Finnish immigrant family; he grew up in northern Michigan and in the San Francisco Bay Area from the age of two . As a child he first played the piano, only to switch to his mother's alto saxophone when he was around eleven. As a jazz student, he completed workshops at the Stanford Jazz Workshop in 1982 and 1984 with u. a. Stan Getz , who initially strongly influenced him; from 1987 to 1991 he studied at the University of California, Santa Cruz . From 1984 he worked in the formation Jazz on the Line , which released three albums between 1989 and 1994 (including In the Moment with Chico Freeman ) and from which the band 2AM emerged . In 1993 he moved to San Francisco, where he oriented himself towards freer forms of play, such as Sun Ra and Albert Ayler , and founded a trio with drummer James Zitro and the cellist Kash Killion, who previously worked for Sun Ra , which from 1994 as The Lords of Outland Played free jazz and released three albums (partly with a different line-up). He also worked in the Life's Blood Ensemble (with Jonas Westergaard and Stefan Pasborg ) and with the pianist Thollem McDonas in the Bloom Project and in the collective improvisation group The Ruminations .

Under his own name, Rent Romus has since released a total of 37 albums under his own name, on which he explored the field between improvisation and composition in always different line-ups as leader and sideman. a. also with John Tchicai , Vinny Golia , Thollem McDonas and Jon Bridsong . He also founded the independent music label Edgetone Records and is the director of the Outsound Presents , SIMM , Luggage Store Gallery Creative Music Series and the annual Outsound New Music Summit in San Francisco. In the field of jazz, Tom Lord lists him at twelve recording sessions between 1995 and 2006.

Discographic notes

  • Rent Romus & Heikki Koskinen Life's Blood Ensemble: Manala (2020)
  • Rent Romus' Life's Blood Ensemble remastered: The Otherworld Cycle remastered (2020)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed December 14, 2017)
personal data
SURNAME Romus, Rent
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Repke, Aaron
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (saxophone, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Michigan