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CAVE IMPROVISATIONS PROJECT: LARRY OCHS & GERALD CLEAVER
On October 1 and 2, 2016, Larry Ochs and Gerald Cleaver will take the opportunity together – and hopefully with the spirits in one privately owned cave as well as in the public cave called Grotte du Mas d'Azil – to record and perform in the Toulouse region of France. Read more
Jones Jones California tour report plus: New CD release available
Jones Jones – featuring the great Mark Dresser on bass, master percussionist Vladimir Tarasov - direct from Vilnius, Lithuania - and Larry Ochs played recently in Los Angeles, San Diego, and Berkeley (May 2016). This trio has existed since 2006 now, but usually they play abour 3… Read more
Rempis – Johnston – Ochs Trio NEW digital-download CD now available on Aerophonic
Recorded Live in Buffalo in May, 2015 during a brilliant tour. More details below... Read more
Rova Channeling Coltrane - Special Deluxe DVD/Bluray/CD package getting great reviews
Rova Channeling Coltrane - a special DVD/Bluray/CD package produced by jazz label Rogue Art — released January 15, 2016 in the USA and worldwide. It includes the Kickstarter-funded five-camera shoot of Electric Ascension; that concert-filming made at 2012 Guelph Jazz Festival in Canada.… Read more
Latest Release
Jones Jones : The Moscow Improvisations
Not Two MW935-2 (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.