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About Rova Saxophone Quartet
Artist Biography
Formed on the West Coast in 1977, the ROVA Saxophone Quartet (Jon Raskin, Larry Ochs, Andrew Voigt, and Bruce Ackley) soon established itself within the jazz avant-garde, seeking to link the new, improvised saxophone language of players like Anthony Braxton and Steve Lacy with both the world of contemporary composition (from Ives to Stockhausen) and left-field rock (Fred Frith, Henry Kaiser). ROVA initially recorded on Kaiser’s Metalanguage label, releasing DAREDEVILS in 1979, but subsequent releases appeared on European labels such as Black Saint Records, hatHUT, and Sound Aspects. They also collaborated with Braxton on 1989’s THE AGGREGATE, and electronic composer Alvin Curran on ELECTRIC RAGS II (1990).
Hometown
San Francisco, CA, United States
Genre
Jazz
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