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Latest in the news
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
Ochs – Nels Cline – Gerald Cleaver - December 2017 shows
Advance Notice - Nels and Gerald and Ochs will be reuniting in December with concerts almost set for new Haven, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Detroit and Chicago. 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.