Rent Romus' Actual/Actual & Laurent Estoppey + Daniel Levin duo
Sat, Apr 19
|The Perch Music & Arts Workshop
Fire Museum Presents | The Perch Music & Arts Workshop | 2321 Emerald St, Philadelphia, PA 19125 | 8pm | $10-20 sliding scale |
Time & Location
Apr 19, 2025, 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM
The Perch Music & Arts Workshop, 2321 Emerald St, Philadelphia, PA 19125, USA
About the event
Actual/Actual showcases jazz improvisation with an orientation towards thematic music and spontaneous composition at its core. Their wide swath of performative expression taps swing, ballads, freejazz, modal and other musical genres. It's all “grist for the mill” as they create a new context for these elements where improbable connections are made when you least expect them to. Front man and saxophonist Rent Romus whose performative history started in the late eighties, originally hails from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and has made it a point to engage and collaborate with musicians throughout the Midwest region. This band represents an important part of his “talent reconnaissance” and is truly a multi-generational affair.
Their first album Baptismal was released in the summer of 2022. In the spring of 2023 they released an EP here for the outside recorded live at WYSO radio in Yellow Springs Ohio while on Edgetone…