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Scott R. Looney

About: Scott R. Looney has always been interested in the creation and performance of compelling sounds across a broad spectrum of contemporary, improvised, and experimental music. He has studied composition and improvisation with Roscoe Mitchell, Wadada Leo Smith, Morton Subotnick, David Rosenboom, and Frederic Rzewski, obtaining his MFA in Composition from California Institute of the Arts. After moving to New York, and finally to the San Francisco Bay area, he became more interested in expanding the timbral possibilities of the piano, and using pianists such as Denman Maroney as a starting point, has forged a signature style using the inside and outside of the piano, plucking strings, using metal implements and other quick preparations, in combination to playing the piano normally

Forward Energy: The Awakening

by Glenn Astarita
March 3, 2012

One never knows whether reed men Jim Ryan and Rent Romus will take matters to the next level or slam conventional jazz applications through the meat-grinder. Respectively, the artists are known for skirting the outside through the mouthpiece of various ensemble configurations, straddling the avant-garde, and an array of mechanisms that often defy categorization.

1510

By Scott R. Looney

Label: Stash Records
Released: 2010

Urban Rumination

By Scott R. Looney

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2010

Kadima Collective

by Stuart Broomer
June 18, 2010

When you first come across the recordings on Kadima Collective, a couple of things stand out. The first is that the label, devoted to free improvisation, is based in Israel; secondly, there's a good chance that the CD will feature a bassist, often one of substantial international stature, like Barre Phillips, Mark Dresser or Joëlle Léandre. ...

New CD Urban Ruminations with Oliver Lake, Paul Smoker, Scott R. Looney, and Lisle Ellis

February 5, 2010

Metaphysical Records announces the release of its newest CD, Urban Rumination, an innovative improvising quartet featuring free jazz veterans Oliver Lake on saxes, Paul Smoker on trumpet, and Lisle Ellis on bass, combined with unique sounds by newcomer and Bay Area pianist Scott R. Looney, who straddles the boundaries between traditional free jazz piano ala Cecil ...

Rent Romus' Jazz On the Line Quartet Strap

By Rent Romus

Label: Edgetone Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Strap (Intro) ;Northwood (College Campus) ;Night Nova (Dark Nights) ;Candelight (Margaret's Theme) ;Night Flyer (Chase/Fight Theme) ;NetKill (Robot theme) ;Reaven's Gate (Hospital/Credits) 0

Sonic Conspiracy

By Rent Romus

Label: Edgetone Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Outfuck ;Urban Gothic Hoedown ;H-Bomb Transvestite Infiltration Bop ;Dinner With Blue Dragon at Extending Claw Cafe ;On The Hell Bridge, Meat Market, torture Process ;Don't Touch My Shit ;4- Wheeling Waste - Roam About As a Vagabond ;Telephone - Long Distance ;Sonic Conspiracy ;If Ornette Askew Contankerous Insignificant Anti Cacti ; Hidden Conversation - Who's Sensitive Here ;Playground Of Lost Souls - Shields and Arrows ;The File Room ;Your Table Is Ready ;The Wisperer - American Pictorals ;Bloodsucker Money Bugs - Glyph ;Sodium Pentathalon - 400 Loads ;The Oval Office

Solo Piano

By Scott R. Looney

Label: Stash Records
Released: 0