Drummer Gerald Cleaver has explored the edges of jazz in a career that’s already stretched over more than four decades. On last year’s What Is to Be Done (Clean Feed) he joined saxophonist Larry Ochs and Wilco guitarist Nels Cline for a set that swayed and jerked about in the space between free playing, ambience, […]
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Esteemed saxophone quartet Rova celebrates more than four decades of music and growth
Rova, which comprises saxophonists Jon Raskin, Bruce Ackley, Larry Ochs, and Steve Adams (who replaced Andrew Voigt in 1988), is the gold standard against which all other saxophone quartets must be measured. Each of its members has a distinct approach to his instrument and a personal aesthetic, and they’ve expressed them in settings as disparate […]
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Improvising horn trio Spectral play with the colossal reverb in an abandoned munitions bunker
Spectral perform at Elastic on Thursday to support their new album, Empty Castles, recorded in a 12,000-square-foot concrete structure.
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Wilco guitarist Nels Cline, Rova saxophonist Larry Ochs, and jazz drummer Gerald Cleaver deliver shape-shifting improvisations
This rugged improvising trio is composed of musicians with extraordinarily disparate personalities who seek common ground while expressing their individual voices. Guitarist Nels Cline and saxophonist Larry Ochs both established themselves in California, the former in LA, where he added a punk ethos to his mixture of free jazz and fusion, and the latter in […]
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Our guide to the Chicago International Movies & Music Festival 2014 (the music part)
Music headliners at CIMMfest 2014 include Yo La Tengo and Goblin soundtracking Suspiria.
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Reader’s Agenda Thu 3/14: Studs Terkel Community Media Awards, Karaoke Idol, and Ochs & Don
What’s on the Reader’s Agenda for Thursday, March 14, 2013