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Jeff Dayton-Johnson's Best of 2009
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Jazz Man of the Year honors go without a doubt to Rafael Gilbert of Spain, who attended a performance by Larry Ochs of the ROVA Saxophone Quartet at the Sigüenza Jazz Festival in December, and called the police to report that, whatever it was that Ochs was playing, it wasn't jazz. Ochs was asked to play ...
The Nice Guy Trio: Here Comes The Nice Guy Trio
by Mark Corroto
Give three imaginative artists a yearlong residency in a performance space, located in a breeding ground for creative music and the results hopefully will turn out to be something like Here Comes The Nice Guy Trio. Canadian trumpeter Darren Johnston, now living in the Bay area of San Francisco, spent a year making music ...
Totally Spinning
By ROVA
Label: Black Saint
Released: 2006
Track listing: Let's Go Totally Spinning; Stiction; Radar 11/19/01; Cuernavaca Starlight (For Charles Mingus); Kick It; It's a Journey, Not a Destination; Preshrunk; Radar, Version 731.
Rova: Totally Spinning
by Jeff Stockton
Depending on your preference among saxophone quartets, Rova (comprised of Larry Ochs, Jon Raskin, Bruce Ackley and Steve Adams) and the World Saxophone Quartet would have to rank numbers 1 and 1A. Rova has always been perceived as the more avant-garde of the two, more prone to explorations of abstract sound, closer in spirit (and practice) ...
Rova: Totally Spinning
by AAJ Italy Staff
Se il World Saxophone Quartet, forse il più popolare delle formazioni di soli sassofoni, è da sempre il miglior esempio dell’anima black della musica afro-americana, con i suoi forti legami al blues, al gospel e alla church music in generale, Rova, fin dalla nascita avvenuta nel 1977, incarna il prototipo della formazione d’avanguardia, sperimentale e intellettuale, ...
Electric Ascension: An Interpretation of John Coltrane's Ascension
By ROVA
Label: Atavistic Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Electric Ascension (63:49)
ROVA Orkestrova: Electric Ascension
by Kurt Gottschalk
Electing to interpret for the second time John Coltrane's seminal free jazz blowout Ascension was an odd move for West Coast sax quartet Rova to make on the band's 25th anniversary in 2003. Their motives aside, what it amounted to was restaging one of the band's least interesting records--based on a morass as individual as a ...
Rova: John Coltrane's Ascension & Electric Ascension
by Eyal Hareuveni
“There is never any end. There are always new sounds to imagine: new feelings to get at. And always, there is a need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we've discovered in its pure state. So that we can see more clearly what we are. In that way, ...
ROVA::Orkestrova: Electric Ascension: An Interpretation of John Coltrane's Ascension
by John Kelman
When John Coltrane put together five saxophonists, two trumpets, two basses, piano, and drums to record Ascension forty years ago, his decision would polarize the jazz world. To fans of the more traditional forms from which Coltrane emerged, the two versions of the composition--and, as free as it was, it was a composition--represented something akin to ...
