Past members Andrew Voight Genre Avant-garde jazz | Years active 1977–present Active from 1977 | |
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Albums Electric Ascension, The Celestial Septet, Bingo, This Time We Are Both, The Receiving Surfaces | ||
Rova saxophone quartet cliches
Rova Saxophone Quartet is a San Francisco-based saxophone quartet formed in October 1977. The name "Rova" is an acronym formed from the last initials of the founding members: Jon Raskin, Larry Ochs, Andrew Voigt, and Bruce Ackley. When Voigt left in 1988, he was replaced by Steve Adams, but the group did not change the acronym.
Contents
- Rova saxophone quartet cliches
- Rova saxophone quartet removal of secrecy full album
- Reception
- Discography
- Songs
- References
The band was inspired by a broad spectrum of influences, such as John Cage, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Anthony Braxton, Steve Lacy, Charles Ives, Edgard Varése, and Olivier Messiaen. Its debut album, Cinema Rovaté, was released by Metalanguage Records in 1978. Metalanguage was founded in 1978 by Henry Kaiser and Ochs. It showcased Rova as well as many independent artists and produced the Rova Arts Festival in 1980. Rova's tour of the Soviet Union in 1983 was filmed and shown on PBS. In 1985, it became a non-profit organization.
Rova saxophone quartet removal of secrecy full album
Reception
In noting Rova's role in developing the all-saxophone ensemble as "a regular and conceptually wide-ranging unit," 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 of sound and space...."
Jazz: The Rough Guide notes, "Highly inventive, eclectic and willing to experiment, Rova [is] arguably the most exciting of the saxophone quartets to emerge in the format's late '70s boom."
Discography
Songs
Juke Box MamboThe Juke Box Suite · 2007
Juke Box DetroitThe Juke Box Suite · 2007
Juke Box NiggumThe Juke Box Suite · 2007