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Latest in the news
New Ochs CDs releasing between Sept 2018 and February 2019
Watch for these 4 new recordings releasing between 9-2018 and 2 -2019:
Ochs with Gerald Cleaver: Songs of the Wild Cave // Ochs with Cleaver and Nels Cline: What Is To Be Done // Jones Jones: A Jones in Time Saves Nine // The Fictive Five: CD#2 Read more
Reasons For Moving @ Festival Jazzdor November 13, 2018
Two European festivals: Festival Jazzdor in Strasbourg, France and Music Unlimited in Wels, Austria will present the first shows in Europe by Reasons for Moving. Read more
Ochs interviewed in Jazz Inside Magazine
I want music to transport people someplace. I want it to be an out of body experience, and I think there’s less of an emphasis on that goal, the out of body part of music, these days. When you listen to a Charles Ives symphony, it isn’t necessary to be able to read the music on paper… Read more
Latest Release
Rova :: Orkestrova: No Favorites! for Lawrence 'Butch' Morris
New World 80782 (2016) Read more..
Commendation Quotes
Rova, with its inspired Orkestrova, engages Coltrane's uncompromising compositional attitude and boundaries, pushing with its own sense of informed and masterful improvisation. This marrying of great minds and souls is what makes Electric Ascension such a great triumph. This time Coltrane's music not only heats the nearby atmosphere but also chills out your mind.
Ochs’s long welcoming speech on (the Sax & Drumming Core piece) ‘Across from Over’ is one of the best available representations on record of his remarkable post-post-Coltrane style, an ironclad line that ripples with harmonic potential.