Black Saint

Jazz

CDs:

Artist: What We Live

Title: Trumpets

Larry Ochs, saxophones
Donald Robinson, drums
Lisle Ellis, bass
Dave Douglas, trumpet
Wadada Leo Smith, trumpet

Label Number: 001

Artist: Rova Saxophone Quartet

Title: the Works (volume 3)

Label Number: 1

Artist: Rova Saxophone Quartet

Title: the Works (vol 3)

Rova plays the music of Robin Holcomb, Muhal Richard Abrams, and Steve Adams

Label Number: 1

Artist: Rova Saxophone Quartet

Title: Beat Kennel

Label Number: 120 126-2

Artist: Rova Saxophone Quartet

Title: From the Bureau of Both

Label Number: 120135-2

Artist: What We Live

Title: What We Live Fo(u)r

Lisle Ellis, Bass
Larry Ochs, Saxophones
Donald Robinson, Drums

Label Number: 120156

Artist: What We Live

Title: Never Was

Lisle Ellis, Bass
Larry Ochs, Saxophones
Donald Robinson, Drums

Recorded in 1996

Label Number: 120169-2

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Artist: Rova Saxophone Quartet

Title: the Works (vol 3)

Rova plays the music of Robin Holcomb, Muhal Richard Abrams, and Steve Adams

Label Number: 120196

Artist: Rova Saxophone Quartet

Title: the Works (volume 3)

Rova plays the music of Robin Holcomb, Muhal Richard Abrams, and Steve Adams

Label Number: 120196-2

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Artist: Rova Saxophone Quartet

Title: the Works (vol 3)

Compositions by Robin Holcomb, Muhal Richard Abrams, and Steve Adams

Label Number: 120196-2

Artist: Rova Saxophone Quartet

Title: the Works (volume 3)

Rova plays the music of Robin Holcomb, Muhal Richard Abrams, and Steve Adams

Label Number: 120196-2

Artist: Larry Ochs Sax & drumming Core

Title: The Neon Truth

Larry Ochs - Saxophones
Scott Amendola - Drums
Donald Robinson - Drums

Three giants of modern jazz improvisation provide some enlightenment by way of a bass-less trio consisting of two drummers and woodwinds. Drummers Don Robinson and Scott Amendola pursue snappy dialogue awash with melodic, polyrhythmic-based exchanges. Whereas, reedman Larry Ochs leads this multifaceted exposition through an over-the-top approach to the drummers’ swarming frameworks and swirling support mechanisms. They elicit notions of dance, albeit abstractly. Yet the musicians maintain a loose stride as they slice and dice through a musical forest consisting of tribal rhythms and complex discourses. Throughout, Ochs serves as the conductor atop the rhythm section’s rumbling forays. Moreover, the saxophonist’s twisting lines and sinewy mode of attack adds an element of intrigue to this program. The presentation, when viewed as a singular whole, contains substance! Not just a meaningless cutting session, but more of a focused endeavor, featuring the players’ acutely organized fabrics of sound that go straight to the heart. Recommended…
Black Saint

~ Glenn Astarita

Label Number: 120217-2

Artist: Glenn Spearman Double Trio

Title: Mystery Project

Label Number: BS 120147

Artist: Glenn Spearman Double Trio

Title: Smokehouse

Label Number: BS 120157

Artist: Rova Saxophone Quartet

Title: The Works, Volume 1

Label Number: BS 120176

Artist: Larry Ochs

Title: The Secret Magritte

Label Number: BS 120177

Artist: Rova Saxophone Quartet

Title: John Coltrane's Ascension

Label Number: BS 120180

Artist: Rova Saxophone Quartet

Title: The Works, Volume 2

Label Number: BS 120186

Artist: Glenn Spearman Double Trio

Title: The Fields

Label Number: BS 120197