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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
Jones Jones touring in Europe November 2017
Jones Jones – featuring the great Mark Dresser on bass, master percussionist Vladimir Tarasov and Larry Ochs will play 6 concerts in Europe in November Read more
Spring 2017 CD releases from Clean Feed and Rogue Art
Once upon a time I ran a record label called Metalanguage with guitarist Henry Kaiser, and for that brief time-span (1978-85, plus a few CD releases more recently), I had total control over the process of producing a CD. But working as a guest artist with a label can be very... Read more
Mining Songs From The Wild Cave
In spring 2014, I received an email from Alban Jacques in Toulouse, France. He had recently explored a “privately owned cave” near Toulouse at the invitation of the owner, a cave that held some 150 prehistoric man-made cave paintings. Would I be interested to record... 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.