Jazz Articles about Noah Rosen / Alan Siva

Noah Rosen / Alan Siva: O.I.L. (Orchestrated Improvised Lives)

by Eyal Hareuveni
December 13, 2013

Alan Silva is one of the last true heroes of free jazz and improvised music. He was at the right place, at the right time with his own powerful sound. He played, while still playing the double bass, on some of the formative recordings of the forefathers of the sixties free jazz as Albert Ayler, Sun Ra, Cecil Taylor, Bill Dixon, {[Andrew Hill}} and many others. Later on his own Celestrial Communication Orchestra and Sound Visions Orchestra, when he began ...