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Rova Orkestrova

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Format: CD

Cat No: NW80782

Release Date:  09 December 2016

Label:  New World

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  093228078227

Genres:  Jazz  Jazz  

  • Description

    No Favorites pays homage to one of the most original creators in improvised music, Lawrence "Butch" Morris (1947-2013), inventor of Conduction, a method for organizing large-ensemble improvisation that he took to the world.

    The program represents a working relationship that Rova began with Morris in 1988 and also reflects parallel working processes reaching back to the mid-1970s.

    Rova do more than simply pay tribute. The quartet's members build on their own work in structured improvisation, incorporate other methods of organization - from graphic scores to conventional notation - and expand their palette from the saxophone quartet to include a string quartet and an electric power trio.

    Extending the possibilities of large-ensemble improvisation, the combined groups create music of both depth and an ever changing surface, the fruit of both intense commitment and a highly creative, heterodox methodology. Like previous Rova expansions, it achieves complex music that both requires and rewards active listening. 

    Each of the three extended pieces here includes a high degree of improvisation while embodying different compositional principles, the first and third (Nothing Stopped / But a Future and Contours of the Glass Head) employing conduction, the second graphic notation and simultaneity. 

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Lawrence Ochs - Nothing Stopped / But A Future
      • 2. Steve Adams/jon Raskin - The Double Negative
      • 3. Raskin/adams/ackley/ochs - Contours Of The Glass Head