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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
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
Summer 2017 CD releases from Clean Feed and Rogue Art
Wild Red Yellow by Larry Ochs Sax & Drumming Core out in July from Rogue Art. Saxophone Special Revisited, featuring Rova, Henry Kaiser and Kyle Bruckmann, out in late May from Clean feed. Details: 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.