Denman Maroney, Marylin Crispell, Paul Bley, Art Tatum, Christina Wojdrowska, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Sun Ra, Charles Ives, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Iannis Xenakis, Anthony Braxton, Cecil Taylor, Fred Van Hove, Evan Parker, Mark Dresser, Leo Smith , Oliver Lake, Paul Smoker, Luciano Berio, Conlon Nancarrow, Elliott Carter, John Coltrane, Gustav Mahler, Frank Gratkowski, Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, Bela Bartok, Tuvan throat singing, Bulgarian vocal choir, Vangelis, Thelonius Monk, Claude Debussy, Edgard Varese, Morton Subotnick, Miles Davis, Helmut Lachenmann, Ornette Coleman, Yes, King Crimson, Leos Janacek, Charles Mingus, JS Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Amon Tobin, Louis Andreissen, Witold Lutoslawski, Charlie Parker, Jean Sibelius, Leadbelly, Jerry Hunt, etc.
Sounds Like
Denman Maroney, Achim Kaufmann, Marylin Crispell, Sylvie Courvosier, Christina Wojdrowska, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Sun Ra, Stockhausen, Xenakis, Anthony Braxton, Cecil Taylor, Fred Van Hove, Evan Parker, Free jazz, experimental, improvisation, multitimbral. non-idiomatic free improvisation.
Scott R. Looney has been interested in the creation and performance of
compelling sounds across a broad spectrum of contemporary, improvised,
and experimental music. Starting out young as a solo improviser playing
by ear, he eventually widened the scope of his interests to jazz and
the many points beyond in his studies of electronic and modern
classical music. He has studied composition and improvisation with
Roscoe Mitchell, Wadada Leo Smith, Morton Subotnick, and Frederic Rzewski,
obtaining his MFA in Composition from California Institute of the Arts.
After graduating, 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.
He has also developed a flexible, expressive voice with electronics
using a computer setup which is as effective as his many piano textures
are.
Now living in Berkeley and Oakland, Scott has recorded and/or
performed with a growing list of world class improvisers, among them
being Oliver Lake, Frank Gratkowski, Wolfgang Fuchs, Jon Raskin (of the
ROVA Saxophone Quartet), Joelle Leandre, Henry Kaiser, Gianni Gebbia,
Gino Robair, Joe Morris, Marco Eneidi, Jeb Bishop, and Paul Smoker, to name a few. He
has played in numerous west coast festivals such as the Olympia
Experimental Festival, Big Sur Experimental Music Fest, Line Space Line
Festival in LA, and the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival. He recently toured Israel and Germany w/ saxophonist Ariel Shibolet and bassist Damon Smith, and is now collaborating with the Savage Jazz Dance company as part of the Atemu Aton Project.
favorite quote:
"This guy deserves your attention. He's got power, emotional heft, but
also an abundance of musical intelligence and subtlety." - Ken Waxman,
Cadence
JFJO returns San Francisco in support of their new album One Day in Brooklyn on Fri. Sept. 11th at Cafe Du Nord, with The Last Ambassadors supporting. Doors at 8:30pm and music at 9:30pm. Advance tickets still available. JFJO is also in Santa Cruz at Kuumbwa Jazz Center tonight! See you soon!
Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey returns to the Bay Area for 3 shows this week!
Wed. 6/17 - Elbo Room - SF,CA
Thurs. 6/18 - Starry Plough - Berkeley,CA
Fri. 6/19 - Starry Plough - Berkeley,CA (w/Antioquia!)
In case you want to see another side of Scott, check out his beautiful arrangement of "What's New, Pussycat?" on my page and use the itunes link to hear our collaboration "Warrior Cat".... another aspect to complement his experimental beauty. ~ Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein), jazz-soul singer-songwriter-poet
I have a new track up from a forthcoming cdr entitled "The sum of any number of zeros..." with 12 duo-tracks with myself and drummer/percussionist Martin Öhman on Electronic Musik.
Hey Mr. Looney, thanks for the add. Got some sick stuff going on there. So I haven't head out to mexico just yet, hopefully I will leave this summer, and go into a few months of seclusion, to build up some good ol "bull chops". Then i should head out to the coast and see where i go from there... I wanna go see some of your shows... so keep in touch. Hope all is well, and always the best.
-Ivan
JFJO returns San Francisco in support of their new album One Day in Brooklyn on Fri. Sept. 11th at Cafe Du Nord, with The Last Ambassadors supporting. Doors at 8:30pm and music at 9:30pm. Advance tickets still available. JFJO is also in Santa Cruz at Kuumbwa Jazz Center tonight! See you soon!
