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Guelph Jazz Festival: Guelph, Canada, September 5-9, 2012
by Ted Harms
Guelph Jazz FestivalGuelph, OntarioSeptember 5-9, 2012The Guelph Jazz Festival is in its 19th year. Under the direction of Ajay Heble, the festival has few equals in Canada, attracting the upper echelon of improvising musicians.It is a rare festival that can resist the allure of “tent-pole" shows--the mass-appeal artists that have vague, ...
Kyle Bruckmann: On Procedural Grounds
by Troy Collins
One of the most common methodologies embraced by the current generation of creative improvising musicians is polystylism--a seamlessly ingrained aesthetic sensibility that transcends the stylized post-modern dilettantism of earlier generations. Bay Area-based oboist Kyle Bruckmann has demonstrated the depth and breadth of this all-inclusive approach in myriad ways, from his art-damaged punk band Lozenge and genre-defying ...
Rova Saxophone Quartet - Planetary (2011)
By S. Victor Aaron Imagine a conversation with three other people where topic...a theme if you will...is selected and all four of you are to converse on that topic at certain points in time. And then at other times, a random topic is chosen, but everyone has to be conversing on topic together. And the topics ...
Resistance
Label: Victo
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Resistance (Rova) 19'36"
2. The Drift (Larry Ochs) 11'16"
3. The M
Rova Saxophone Quartet: Resistance
by Kurt Gottschalk
Two premiere saxophone quartets came out of the final quarter of the last century, and both continue to carry on (each having lost one original member along the way). Rova and the World Saxophone Quartet (WSQ) are notable for having overcome the limitations posed by groupings of like instruments, each finding their way to distinct voices ...
