Browse by Artist: ROVA SAXOPHONE QUARTET

Artist:	ROVA SAXOPHONE QUARTET
Title:	As Was
Label:	ATAVISTIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	ALP 216CD

"Simply put, As Was is a masterpiece of American creative music. 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. Bay Area ROVA continue to make great music; they are the finest, most adventurous saxophone quartet in the biz. This record features some of their most memorable compositions, including the superb, R&B inflected 'Paint Another Take Of The Shootpop,' dedicated to Olivier Messiaen and Otis Redding, and 'Daredevils,' which Larry Ochs describes as '...a little hit of the circus.' As Was has been remastered & resequenced from original tapes by Rova's Larry Ochs, UMS has restored the swank original cover to the form it was initially envisioned (when printed for the LP is didn't turn out the way the group wanted it to...). This one record shows how expansive and exciting the sometimes mundane saxophone quartet format can be, when deployed with the right combination of care and spunk."

Artist:	ROVA SAXOPHONE QUARTET
Title:	Planetary
Label:	UNITED ONE/SOLYD (RUSSIAN FEDERATION)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	UNITED 407CD

"After 16 years of bold experimentation, Rova has been credited with virtually re-inventing the concept of the saxophone quartet. Rova aims at making a synthesis of composition and structured improvisation. Rova's collaborations with such significant creative musicians as Anthony Braxton, Alvin Curran, John Zorn, Steve Lacy, Terry Riley, Robin Holcomb, Butch Morris, Fred Firth and Kronos Quartet have expanded possibilities and contributed to the redefinition of 20th Century Music. It is in such a restless, expansive, but intensely focused musical partnership as Rova that the sounds of the 21st Century are prefigured. The Rova Saxophone is an ensemble that creates a musical presence so immense that you can clearly hear the future. The Penguin Guide to Jazz calls its music 'a teeming cosmos of saxophone sounds' created by 'deliberately eschewing conventional notions about swing [and] prodding at the boundaries on sound and space?'"

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