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Larry Och's Sax & Drumming Core: Stone Shift
by John Sharpe
Fifty years after its inception, the avant-garde still regularly begs the hoary old question “Is it jazz?" Notwithstanding that it has persisted as an active style as long or longer than most of its predecessors, with a small but committed following around the globe while continuing to reinvent itself in different ways wherever the seed germinates, ...
Up from Under
By Larry Ochs
Label: Atavistic Records
Released: 2009
Track listing:
1. Up from Under - 8:41; 2. Dragons Fly - 7:11; 3. X-10 - 8:37; 4. And Nothing But... - 9:15; 5. neoNawi (Ochs/Amendola) - 4:04;
6. Poporfa - 9:43; 7. X-09 - 8:07; 8. Fin Passes Pluto - 9:26.
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Stone Shift
By Larry Ochs
Label: Rogue Art
Released: 2009
Track listing: Across From Over; Abstract Rising; Stone Shift (for Kurosawa); Finn Veers for Venus.
Spanish Fan Calls Police over Saxophone Band Who Were Just Not Jazzy Enough
Festival-goer claims it was 'psychologically inadvisable' for him to hear Larry Ochs Sax and Drumming Core perform Jazzman Larry Ochs has seen many things during 40 years playing his saxophone around the world but, until this week, nobody had ever called the police on him. That changed on Monday night however, when's Spain's pistol-carrying Civil Guard ...
Larry Ochs Sax & Drumming Core: Stone Shift
by AAJ Italy Staff
Avvicinarsi all'opera di Larry Ochs (artista che molti conoscono come co-fondatore e componente del ROVA Saxophone Quartet) è un'esperienza mai priva di interesse, non solo per l'evidente dedizione dell'artista e per le sue notevoli doti di strumentista, ma soprattutto per un impegno compositivo che mostra di risolvere con criteri originali le apparenti incongruenze che sembrerebbero esistere ...
Larry Ochs Sax & Drumming Core: Stone Shift
by Kurt Gottschalk
Larry Ochs, best known for his work with the long-standing ROVA saxophone quartet, has been working an unusual and satisfying side project for close to a decade. His Drumming Core, founded in 2000, is a trio with two drummers dedicated to exploring American field hollers and Asian chants. The first two CDs were rewarding, if more ...
Ravi & Anoushka Shankar, Terry & Gyan Riley, Kenny Garrett and Larry Ochs
by Martin Longley
Ravi & Anoushka ShankarCarnegie HallOctober 10, 2009 Ravi Shankar's 90th birthday is arriving this year, and still the master plays on, even if he no longer sits cross-legged, instead perching delicately on the edge of his performing platform. As well, Shankar now hoists a lighter sitar variant, shorn of ...
Larry Ochs Sax and Drumming Core: Up from Under
by AAJ Italy Staff
Dalle pionieristiche intuizioni di Ornette e Coltrane, passando per le geniali trovate di Henry Threadgill, l'idea della doppia-ritmica/doppia batteria ha attraversato con fortune alterne la storia recente dell'improvvisazione. Eppure, il riferimento più affascinante e immediato per il Sax & Drumming Core di Larry Ochs, almeno all'orecchio suggestionabile di chi scrive, sono le Fife & Drum band ...
Larry Ochs
by Marc Medwin
“It started out as a social thing," says saxophonist and composer Larry Ochs of what would eventually determine the course of his life. “I played trumpet as a kid in New York, but it wasn't really because I enjoyed it. I played music because friends of mine were doing it; then it was supposed to be ...
An AAJ Interview with Larry Ochs
by AAJ Staff
This interview was originally published in January 2000.“To reveal a new world is the function of creation in all the arts." --Edgard VareseHow different might our planet be if a number of significant events over the past century had NOT happened? What if the Kennedys and Dr. King had NOT been assassinated? ...
