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| | Rova Saxophone Quartet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Epitonic.com: Rova featuring a track from As Was. | | | Rova Saxophone Quartet at the All Music Guide. | | | The Rova Saxophone Quartet is a San Francisco-based all-saxophone band formed in October 1977 at the same time as their less-adventurous but better known colleagues the World Saxophone Quartet. |
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| | Encyclopedia: Saxophone |
| | The saxophone is most commonly associated with popular music, big band music, and jazz, but it was originally intended as both an orchestral and military band instrument. | | | The bass saxophone is occasionally used in band music (especially music by Percy Grainger). | | | Although only occasionally called for in orchestral music, saxophone sections (usually encompassing the alto, tenor, and baritone instruments, but sometimes also the soprano and/or bass) are an important part of the jazz big band, as well as military, concert, and marching bands. |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Saxophone
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| | Jazz News: Rova Saxophone Quartet Celebrates 25th Anniversary |
| | Rova returned to the USSR in November 1989 and subsequently released a live CD from the tour, This Time We Are Both (New Albion Records). | | | One thing is certain: Rova’s music and the events presented by Rova:Arts stimulate the improvised music scene and bring groundbreaking music to wider audiences. | | | Ascension was first produced by Coltrane in 1965; Rova recorded the piece in 1965 with the same instrumentation as Coltrane used. |
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http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=1659
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| | JazzWest: Rovaté Concert Turns Four |
| | Rova’s history intertwines with a number of Orchestrova players, including several collaborations with Smith, work with Frith starting in the 80’s, and Jeanreneaud’s first appearance as a solo improviser at a Rova-sponsored concert. | | | Composers creating for Rova "know there are certain liberties they can take, because you're writing music for four people who don't just play sax, they all write saxophone music themselves, they're all improvisers, and they've been playing together for a long time. | | | Their contribution includes over 70 original compositions for the saxophone quartet repertoire, over 30 commissioned works from a diversity of composers, more than 30 recordings, as well as the curation of several collaborative series in addition to the Rovaté concerts. |
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http://www.jazzwest.com/archive/articles/rova.html
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| | City Pulse - MUSIC |
| | Rova integrates improvisation with written music so seamlessly that when Adams joined the group and began to study their repertoire in earnest, even he was surprised at what was “through-composed” and what wasn’t. | | | Their success in forging a repertoire for saxophone quartet is even beginning to resemble the colossal achievement of Joseph Haydn, who took another instrument associated with semi-wild dance rhythms (the fiddle) and made it the cornerstone of the most inexhaustibly rich musical form of the last two centuries — the string quartet. | | | Throughout the ’70s, they excitedly compared notes on the musicians and albums they felt were taking improvised music to planets with breathable air. |
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http://www.lansingcitypulse.com/021113/music
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| | Junkmedia: Rova :: Orkestrova : Electric Ascension |
| | Naturally, with a saxophone quartet leading the proceedings, there are a number of solo spots reserved for them, but these are tempered by a slew of electronic improvisations that were entirely unimaginable in 1965. | | | The Rova saxophone quartet and a few invited guests recorded a successful interpretation of the piece live in 1995 and decided it warranted continued performances, without ever intending to release them on record. | | | Recorded live for a radio broadcast, Rova tripled the size of their traditional saxophone quartet line-up by inviting some of the West Coast's finest improvisers to join them. |
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http://www.junkmedia.org/?i=1546
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| | Rova review, 1998 |
| | The 11-member ensemble (a string quartet plus three clarinetists, a saxophonist, and two percussionists) was full of creative musicians familiar to anyone who has sampled the Bay Area new music improvisation scene. | | | While all this was interesting, I was waiting for something in particular, and when Rova opened the third and final part of Friday's program, I got what I was craving on the very first beat: a slab of total saxophony, a fortissimo chord, a sonic tsunami. | | | As much as I enjoy Rova CDs, recordings don't capture the two aspects of the thrill of hearing Rova live. |
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http://users.rcn.com/dcmeckler/rev_rova.htm
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| | Rastascan Records BRD 027 |
| | Rova's singular blend of composition and improvisation has been called "comprovisation," but that rather clumsy coinage only hints at the music's precarious internal balance, an equilibrium better reflected in the title of this extended work, Maintaining the Web Under Less Than Obvious Circumstances. | | | Perhaps the pinnacle of this quartet's gift for spontaneous composition, Maintaining the Web is a network of improvisations resulting from a series of musical "games" and "strategies" extemporaneously cued by the musicians during the actual process of creation. | | | The live performance of "Grace" featured the individual Rova members moving about the hall so that sounds would literally emanate from various physical points at different moments in the concerts. |
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http://www.rastascan.com/catalog/brd027.html
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| | Innovative Saxophone Quartet To Be Featured At Conference |
| | Starting from a position on the margin of avant-garde jazz, Rova has developed into leaders of what is loosely called "collective improvisation." In this approach, the apparently conflicting demands of composed music and improvisation are reconciled in a music of original harmony. | | | In addition to the concert and a workshop by Rova, it will include discussions of interrelationships among music, poetry and painting, panel discussions on the role of improvisation and the use of crossdisciplinary approaches to creation, a poetry reading and an open multi-arts improvisation session. | | | The son of a professor of music at Brown University, Coolidge is an accomplished jazz drummer. |
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| | ROVA |
| | Rova toured the USSR again in November 1989, releasing a CD from the tour on the New Albion label entitled, This Time We Are Both. | | | Before the completion of the recording, Rova had been invited to perform at the Vancouver New Music Society in Canada and the 1979 Moers International Jazz Festival in West Germany. | | | In the last 19 years, Rova has created dozens of pieces for saxophone quartet involving an adept blending of notated composition and structured improvisation. |
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http://www.kunstradio.at/BIOS/rovabio.html
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| | Rova_Kronos.html |
| | San Francisco and the musical world are lucky to have Rova Saxophone Quartet and Kronos Quartet actualizing their far reaching vision and with such exquisite clarity and prowess. | | | The music of Rova Saxophone Quartet and Kronos (string) Quartet provides us, the audience, with rhythmic, textural, and culturally intellectual challenges that do not alienate, but rather invite us, initially, to consider our experience with these instruments, up to this point. | | | In breaking rules, they create their won aesthetic in music and the belief that they obviously have in that artistic ideal calls upon us, the listeners, to approach it with the reverence and praise it deserves. |
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http://www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/~tebo/history/LongDur/Rova/Rova_Kronos.html
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| | The Daily Page: Music: Preview: Rova Saxophone Quartet |
| | Rova's survival in a music environment that's been unkind to accessible jazz artists -- let alone cutting-edge players whose improvisational flights take them to the limits of organized sound -- is remarkable. | | | But this year they'll make it up to local free-jazz followers with a concert at the First Congregational Church; the show is also the first event in the Madison Music Collective's 2004 schedule. | | | More important, despite a slight modification of membership, the quartet has remained focused on bringing new music to life. |
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http://www.thedailypage.com/going-out/music/news/managedit.php?intmusicnewsid=379
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| | sfweekly.com Music Sax Maniacs 1996-08-28 |
| | Rova's trademarks are calculated development and constant metamorphoses in volume, tempo, tone, rhythm, and spellbinding melody. | | | Ackley sees Rova's music as a "particularly American hybrid" that encompasses the "declaration" and power of hard rock, the "rhythmic speech quality" of rap, various blues approaches, the full jazz traditions (minus bebop, because it's overdone and has "become like a religion"), and new-music elements of 20th-century classical composers like Xenakis, Stockhausen, and Cage. | | | It wasn't the sound mass in itself that was so brutal; but one of the heaviest sonic barrages you'll ever likely encounter, when combined with an oppressively warm, stuffy, and acoustically muddy room, created an overwhelming experience for many listeners. |
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http://www.sfweekly.com/Issues/1996-08-28/music.html
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| | RAREFACTION |
| | The disc is not for the meek, and it occupies new turf. | | | RovaMatic (Mac/Win) The Rova Saxophone Quartet is an adventurous ensemble that has explored improvisational music since the late 1970s. | | | Roving through RovaMatic The samples on RovaMatic were recorded in an acoustically live room for ambience, with Rova in a semicircle, its standard performance configuration. |
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http://emusician.com/mag/emusic_rarefaction
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| | Trinity Chamber Concerts |
| | Rova has fundamentally leapt beyond musical horizons reinventing the saxophone quartet concept starting in 1977. | | | Rova explores the synthesis of composition and collective improvisation in dense passages that give way to delicate filigree to create a river of sounds and textures. | | | Influenced by Ives and Coltrane to Cage, Taylor, Braxton, and Meredith Monk and current collaborations with Nels Cline of Wilco; Rova Saxophone Quartet is a group of musicians with profound talents, stellar musicianship and compositional brilliance. |
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http://www.trinitychamberconcerts.com
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| | Rova Saxophone Quartet Resistance |
| | The three tracks come from two studio sessions from 1997 and 2002, and as with most Victo releases the disc sounds bright and warm, keeping the recording process from standing in the way of the players (as the players themselves never block the view of the other composers with whom they work). | | | In 1995, they arranged, performed and recorded a sax quartet version of John Coltrane's opus “Ascension.” Their resumé, in other words, is more than respectable. | | | WSQ are unabashedly a jazz group, recording an album of Duke Ellington material and dedicating another to Miles Davis. |
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http://www.allaboutjazz.com/reviews/r0503_061.htm
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| | ROVA Saxophone Quartet - Epitonic.com: Hi Quality Free and Legal MP3 Music |
| | One of ROVA's earliest recordings, As Was (1981), stands as a benchmark in the history of 20th century creative music. | | | ROVA Saxophone Quartet - Epitonic.com: Hi Quality Free and Legal MP3 Music | | | The ROVA Saxophone Quartet got started in late '70s Berkeley, nurtured by the thriving Mills College free music scene. |
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| | Windmill Saxophone Quartet - Reviews |
| | This is the second recording by the Windmill Saxophone Quartet. | | | The Windmill Saxophone Quartet's concert yesterday afternoon in Beltsville was highlighted by tight and robust ensemble performances and several densely orchestrated original compositions and arrangements. | | | The Washington, D.C. based Windmill Saxophone Quartet employs soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, and bass saxophones along with flutes and clarinets in an adventurous session that was recorded in 1990 but released just this year. |
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| | Miya Masaoka : Ensembles : Maybe Monday |
| | With its unique instrumentation, wide-ranging influences, and peerless expertise, the trio conjures a sound of striking unity from a would-be clash of opposites: the electronic and the acoustic, the East and the West, the lyrical and the explosive. | | | Miya Masaoka works simultaneously in the varied musical worlds of jazz, Western classical music, traditional Japanese music and free improvisation, and is currently the director of a traditional Japanese court music ensemble, the San Francisco Gagaku Society. | | | Outside of Rova, he performed and recorded with the late saxophone innovator Glenn Spearman's Double Trio, and has also played extensively with the quartet Room, the trio What We Live, The John Lindberg Ensemble and the new Larry Ochs Sax and Drumming Core. |
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| | rova.html |
| | In the 20 years of their existence they've become renowned for their imaginative integration of composition and improvisation, their blindness to musical boundaries, and for the diversity of their many collaborators. | | | Between the writing from outside sources for quartet and the performing with the likes of Zorn, Frith, Morris, Braxton and Curran, our palette of compositional and improvisational tools widened considerably, and we're still exploring the ramifications of all that activity, which continues to this day. | | | Playing in the USSR and then collaborating with the Ganelin Trio in the States - it was obviously a major breakthrough given the politics of the time, and it's interesting to hear that it was a musical watershed. |
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| | Jon Raskin |
| | 1954, Heppner, OR) is a composer and performer with the ROVA Saxophone Quartet on baritone and alto saxophones. | | | Before ROVA, Raskin served as music director of the Tumbleweed Dance Company (1974-77) in San Francisco. | | | Since then, ROVA has worked with John Zorn, Anthony Braxton, Terry Riley, Fred Frith, Alvin Curran, Sam Rivers, SF Taiko Dojo, John Carter and many others, released over 20 recordings, and toured extensively in Europe the US and Japan. |
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| | Details for The World Premiere of Jon Raskin's "The Hear and Now" performed by Rova Saxophone Quartet at Other Minds ... |
| | On the heels of their 25th anniversary, Rova is still as creative, inspiring, original and quirky as ever. | | | The Hear and Now draws on a method of group improvisation developed by Rova called "Radar," a form of structured improvisation and composition in real time. | | | Creators of 'Radar', an entire system of structured improvisation, the quartet has periodically looked outward for new sounds and traditions. |
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| | Rova Saxophone Quartet - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links |
| | Rova's music embraces a variety of contemporary techniques, from serialism and cue card-based game pieces to rock and free improvisation. | | | With the advent of the World Saxophone Quartet in the late '70s, the all-saxophone band came into vogue. | | | Rova Saxophone Quartet - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links |
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| | Amherst Saxophone Quartet Press Reviews #5 |
| | Besides hearing the rare sounds of four saxophones playing both chamber music and jazz, the audience had a dollop of comedy thrown in unexpectedly by tenor player Stephen Rosenthal. | | | In a concert that showed just how well-deserved their Chamber Music America award for adventuresome programming was, the Amherst Saxophone Quartet inaugurated the Gertrude Sternbergh Concert Series of the Star series Association Saturday night at the Albright College Meridian Theatre. | | | Busy and replete with effects at the beginning, the piece mellows into a lyrical set of solos for each instrument, like walking from a marketplace to a quiet park. |
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http://amherstsaxophonequartet.buffalo.edu/2_0/reviews/reviews5.htm
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| | Bill Alves - Review of Chanting the Light of Foresight: Imbas Forasnai by Terry Riley |
| | His newest release is Chanting the Light of Foresight: Imbas Forasnai, written for a different sort of quartet: the Rova Saxophone Quartet. | | | The "path" of the title refers in part to the way that the movement "unwinds systematically from simpler relationships to the more complex areas of the tuning." In order to get the saxophonists to play the just intervals precisely, Riley recorded the pitches with his old Prophet 5 synthesizer as a reference. | | | Review of Chanting the Light of Foresight: Imbas Forasnai by Terry Riley and the Rova Saxophone Quartet. |
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http://www2.hmc.edu/~alves/riley.html
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| | Rova Saxophone Quartet sounds out Brakhage's silence |
| | While Rova's volatile improvisational aesthetic might seem antithetical to Brakhage's painstaking cinematic constructions, Ochs says he thinks the films "are very much like improvised music. | | | Many of the improvisational systems Ochs uses in "The Mirror World" have been part of Rova's creative toolbox for years, but Brakhage's films have suggested new ways of thinking about presenting sound. | | | Short films by Brakhage, presented by San Francisco Cinematheque, will be screened before, between and after (but not with) the musical performances. |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/06/09/DDGF3D50AU1.DTL&type=printable
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| | :: SFJAZZ :: |
| | The Rova Saxophone Quartet, “one of the most significant ensembles of its kind” (Chicago Tribune), founded in 1977, is an important leader in the movement of genre-bending music with roots in post-bop free jazz, avant-rock, and new music, as well as traditional and popular styles of Africa, Asia, Europe and the United States. | | | Improv:21 is a series of informances on 21 st Century musical improvisation led by master improvisers. | | | Guitarist Nels Cline, born in Los Angeles in 1956, performed throughout the United States and Europe, as well as improvised music circuits, before joining the rock band Wilco in spring 2004. |
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http://www.sfjazz.org/concerts/spring05/artists/orkestrova_ascension.html
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| | SECTION ONE Solo Saxophone Saxophone Miscellaneous SECTION TWO Soprano Saxophone & Piano Alto Saxophone & Piano Tenor Saxophone & Piano Baritone Saxophone. | | | Saxophone Methods and Collections published by Southern Music Company - 1998 Complete Catalog of Saxophone Music. |
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| | eastbayexpress.com Calendar Scenes Sax Addiction 2005-10-12 |
| | Rarely does Rova play a home-turf gig, and usually it's in an expanded grouping such as last year's San Francisco Jazz Festival production of "Ascension," the quartet's reimaging of John Coltrane's monumental composition performed by a dozen improvisers, including Wilco guitarist Nels Cline and violinists Jenny Scheinman and Carla Kihlstedt. | | | Back in 1977, as the punk rock revolution swept through the music world, starting a band with a complete lineup of four saxophones didn't seem the shortest path to fame. | | | It has long been acclaimed as one of the major forces in improvised music. |
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| | Valley Advocate: From the Music Front |
| | Considered among the finest classical quartets working today, the foursome from the city formerly known as Leningrad join clarinetist Julian Milkis in a program of music by Schubert and Brahms plus folk music from their home country. | | | The quartet also looks for inspiration to more high-watt forms -- especially rock and hip-hop -- as well as traditional blues and modern composers such as Karlheinz Stockhausen and John Cage. | | | Big Sandy and His Fly-Rite Boys play both kinds of music at the Green River Music and Balloon Festival on July 19. |
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| | Chris Brown: Biography |
| | 1989-90 "Quartet with Shadows", for saxophone quartet and harmonizer. | | | 1984 "Post Mortem", for piano, percussion, saxophone (also exists in a version for piano solo) and digital delay. | | | 1997 Rova's 1995 Live Recording of John Coltrane's "Ascension", piano performance in large ensemble including the Rova Saxophone Quartet, Black Saint, CD. |
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| | The Brooklyn Sax Quartet |
| | The BSQ’s new CD Far Side of Here (Omnitone), released in the spring 2005, follows their debut recording The Way of the Saxophone (Innova, 2001). | | | New arrangements of Monk’s tunes re-work harmonies and rhythms, with the original melodies running as threads throughout, passed around by the four saxophones. | | | Sam's sound and spirit will be with us forever. |
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http://www.brooklynsaxquartet.com
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| | Variety.com - Reviews - OrkestRova L.A. |
| | For an encore, band performed Coltrane's gorgeous ballad from 1963, "After the Rain," proving the Rova's facility with a delicate piece of music and the musicians' ability to let a composition breathe on its own while tugging at and spinning its possibilities. | | | To celebrate the 40th anniversary of John Coltrane's groundbreaking improv-heavy composition "Ascension," the Rova Saxophone Quartet brought in renowned guitarists Nels Cline and Fred Frith (who played electric bass), a pair of violinists, two electronic sound makers and a drummer to explore 'Trane's free-jazz landmark. | | | The result was dense and even mournful, a molten New Orleans funeral march accented with blips and squawks that held together triumphantly for 50 minutes. |
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http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117928423?categoryid=1266
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| | Freight and Salvage: ROVA SAXOPHONE QUARTET |
| | The quartet, which has released more than two dozen recordings of original music, offers adventurous works that are ardent and riveting, exhilarating and free-spirited. | | | Since forming in 1977, Rova has made a habit of fundamentally extending the horizons of music. | | | With its potent mix of musical virtuosity and compositional creativity, Rova is a leader in the movement of genre-bending that has its roots in post-bop free jazz, avant-rock, and new music as well as traditional and popular styles. |
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| | Atavistic Worldwide Rova Saxophone Quartet |
| | These huge quartet recordings from the band's first incarnation with Andrew Voigt were first issued on Larry Ochs and Henry Kaiser's legendary Metalanguage label in '81, and have never been previously available on CD. | | | when ROVA plays live, our sound fills the room. | | | We suggest playing this record at a volume that fills your listening space." - Larry Ochs (original liner notes, 1981) |
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http://atavistic.com/artist.cfm?action=2&ThisArtist=55&itemid=4
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| | Jazz Concert Review - Rova Saxophone Quartet@ jazzreview.com |
| | Four saxes with no bass or drums could be a really crazy, out-there trip for the adventurous listener's ears. | | | They could do just about anything, and I really wish Rova had embraced that more this night. | | | Jazz Concert Review - Rova Saxophone Quartet@ jazzreview.com |
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| | As Was, MP3 Album Music Download at eMusic |
| | An early release by San Francisco's free jazz-meets-modern classical Rova Saxophone Quartet, As Was finds the group branching into a variety of stylistic areas but keeping their free jazz roots firmly at the base of their music. | | | Engaging, at times abrasive, yet accessible, As Was is one of the Rova Saxophone Quartet's strongest early releases. | | | The expansive 20-minute closer, "Paint Another Take of the Shootpop," is dedicated to Olivier Messiaen and Otis Redding, and impressively enough, elements of both can be heard in the way passages of musique concrete alternate with R&B-inspired improvisations that almost sound, dare we say it, funky. |
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| | Other Minds 10 Press Release |
| | Tigran Mansurian of the Republic of Armenia and violist Kim Kashkashian reprise music from their recent ECM release Hayren. | | | Panamanian-born Blake, long a sideman with Sun Ra, Dizzy Gillespie and McCoy Tyner, cites Jimi Hendrix as a primary influence and has the musical moxie and brilliant bare-hand strumming technique to back it up. | | | The closing concert on Saturday, March 6th, features a solo world premiere performance by renowned cellist Joan Jeanrenaud (USA), best known for her years with the Kronos Quartet; dreamy "acousmatics" from Francis Dhomont (Canada, b. |
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| | Saxophone, saxophone note, saxophone review |
| | Saxophone manufacturer Yamaha alto saxophone Yamaha tenor saxophone Saxophone stand Alto saxophone sheet music Saxophone accessory Toy saxophone History of the saxophone Free alto saxophone music Saxophone information | | | Shop at Giardinelli for discount prices on saxophones and other band and orchestra instruments. | | | Find, compare and buy Musical Instruments and other Electronics products at Shopping.com. |
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| | Artists: Rova Saxophone Quartet |
| | Composer Cross-reference by Vince Kargatis lits composers whose work Rova has recorded, hyperlinked to the above discography | | | Rova Saxophone Quartet at New Albion Records web site |
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| | KQED Public TV: Spark: About: Shop Spark: Buy Videos |
| | The Art of Improvisation: The Rova Saxophone Quartet, a vanguard group 25 years in the making, improvises cutting-edge music art for series of musical pieces inspired by the Soprano saxophone legend, Steve Lacy. | | | Music Volume: Ali Akbar Khan, Pamela Z, Rova Saxophone Quartet, Orquesta La Moderna Tradición, Klein International String Competition, Loren Chasse, SFJAZZ All-Star High School Ensemble, and Tommy Guerrero | | | Kids on Stage: The Marsh Youth Theater tackle singing, dancing and acting for the premiere of "Jip, His Story." |
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| | SummerJazzCycleTour 2004 |
| | The Kronos among saxophone quartets has produced some two dozen records with original music for ROVA. | | | Specially for the SummerJazzCycleTour the ROVA Saxophone Quartet will play Paul Termos's composition '52 Beats and more' in a new arrangement. | | | The tension between composition and collective improvisation is ROVA's main strength. |
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| | RoVaMaTiC |
| | What we have here is a four-horned sound library showcasing the compositional and improvisational prowess of the Rova Saxophone Quartet. | | | Wander to Gench Music for information on where to purchase it. | | | Rova has been on the forefront of improvised music for more than 20 years and their collective experience has been documented and preserved within this medium, especially prepared for your immediate use, abuse, manipulation, integration and inspiration. |
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| | the Southern Theater On Stage: |
| | The festival opens on Saturday with a day-long music marathon showcasing works commissioned by Meet The Composer over the past 15 years, including Milton Babbitt, Eve Beglarian, Mary Ellen Childs and many others. | | | The repertoire will reflect a broad musical spectrum, including classical, opera, art song, jazz, world, electronic and experimental, performed by Minnesota ensembles, including Zeitgeist, the Artaria String Quartet and Plymouth Music Series. | | | Includes all events on Sat, Sun and Rova Concert |
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| | Centazzo & Rova - The Bay - english |
| | The CD contains a studio recording done in 1978 in California by Andrea CENTAZZO and the ROVA SAXOPHONE QUARTET, originally released on Ictus Records. | | | In one of his many tour in USA CENTAZZO met them, rehearsed and recorded the material on this CD, with the help of Henry Kaiser. | | | At the end of the 1970s a groups of four saxophone players, Rova Saxophone Quartet, appeared on the scene of improvised and jazz music, bringing with them a gush of fresh air in their unusual approach to themes, technical dexterity and daring choices of language contamination. |
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| | The Austin Chronicle: Rova Saxophone Quartet |
| | Since 1978, the Rova Saxophone Quartet has been at the vanguard of the jazz paradigm, composing publicly commissioned works and releasing nearly 20 albums. | | | Inspired equally by modern composers and free jazz, Rova leans on adventurous concepts such as serialism, indeterminacy, and straight-up free improv. |
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| | Highlighting the ROVA Saxophone Quartet's 25th Anniversary concerts this weekend. | | | * Vinny Golia -- "Subtrafuge" -- Feeding Frenzy: Music for Woodwinds and String Quartet (Nine Winds, 2002) | | | ROVA has been together for 25 years with only one personnel change -- they persevere, and they rule! |
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| | Rova |
| | This album consists of works written specifically for Rova that have plenty of recognizable musical touchstones. | | | Unlike the WSQ, Rova improvise around complicated and open-ended themes usually free of blues or swing references. | | | This means that some of their recordings are so abstract, discovering a hummable pattern, even one that lasts three measures, is a daunting task. |
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| | online Music store - product index - page 8 |
| | The Russian Piano Quartet - Taneyev, Juon, Borodin | | | Trio 4 For Piano Violin & Cello / Quartet / Quint | | | String Quartet Nos 13 & 14 Death & The Maiden |
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