Larry Ochs (musician)
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Born | New York City | May 3, 1949
Genres | Jazz, avant-garde jazz, classical |
Occupation(s) | Musician, composer, producer, label owner |
Instruments | Saxophone |
Labels | Music & Arts, Metalanguage, Black Saint, Atavistic, RogueArt, Not Two, Intakt |
Associated acts | Rova Saxophone Quartet, Glenn Spearman, What We Live, Kihnoua |
Larry Ochs (born May 3, 1949 in New York City) is an American jazz saxophonist, co-founder of the Rova Saxophone Quartet and Metalanguage Records.
Ochs studied trumpet briefly but concentrated on tenor and sopranino saxophones. He worked as a record producer and founded his own label, Metalanguage Records in 1978, in addition to operating the Twelve Stars studio in California. He co-founded the Rova Saxophone Quartet and worked in Glenn Spearman's Double Trio. A frequent recipient of commissions, he composed the music for the play Goya's L.A. by Leslie Scalapino in 1994 and for the film , which was named best documentary at SXSW in 1998. He has played in a new music trio called Room and the What We Live ensemble. He has recorded several albums as a leader.[1] He formed the group Kihnoua in 2007 with vocalist and Scott Amendola on drums and electronics,[2] which released Unauthorized Caprices in 2010.[3]
He is married to poet Lyn Hejinian.
Discography[]
- Hall of Mirrors, Room (Music & Arts, 1992)
- The Secret Magritte (Black Saint, 1995)
- The Neon Truth (Black Saint, 2002)
- Fly Fly Fly (Intakt, 2004) with Joan Jeanrenaud, Miya Masaoka
- Out Trios Vol.5: Up from Under (Atavistic, 2007)
- The Mirror World (Metalanguage, 2007)
- Spiller Alley (RogueArt, 2008)
- Stone Shift (RogueArt, 2009)
- We All Feel the Same Way, Jones Jones (SoLyd, 2009)
- Unauthorized Caprices (Not Two, 2010)[3]
- The Throne (Not Two, 2014) with Don Robinson
- The Fictive Five (Tzadik, 2015)
- 1978 The Bay
- 1978 Cinema Rovaté
- 1979 Daredevils
- 1979 The Removal of Secrecy
- 1979 This, This, This, This
- 1981 As Was
- 1984
- 1985 The Crowd-For Elias Canetti
- 1987 Beat Kennel
- 1989 Electric Rags II
- 1991 Long on Logic
- 1989 This Time We Are Both
- 1992 From the Bureau of Both
- 1994 Terry Riley: Chanting the Light of Foresight
- 1995 John Coltrane's Ascension
- 1995 The Works Vol. 1
- 1996 Ptow!!
- 1996 The Works Vol. 2
- 1996 Totally Spinning
- 1998 Morphological Echo
- 1998 Bingo
- 1999 The Works Vol. 3
- 2003 Resistance
- 2005 Electric Ascension
- 2007 The Juke Box Suite
- 2012 A Short History[4]
With Glenn Spearman
- 1992 Mystery Project
- 1993 Smokehouse
- 1996 The Fields
- 1997 Blues for Falasha
With Fred Frith and Maybe Monday
- Digital Wildlife (Winter & Winter, 2002)
- Unsquare (Intakt, 2008)
With Dave Rempis and Darren Johnston
- Spectral (Aerophonic, 2014)
References[]
- ^ Lane, Joslyn. Larry Ochs at AllMusic
- ^ Kihnoua Introduction Archived 2011-08-16 at the Wayback Machine. Larry Ochs website.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Horton, Lyn (October 17, 2010). "Kihnoua - Unauthorized Caprices, Not Two". Jazz Times.
- ^ "Larry Ochs | Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 26 December 2016.
External links[]
- Interview by Luke Harley, 27 May 2008 at Paris Transatlantic
- American jazz composers
- American male jazz composers
- American jazz saxophonists
- American male saxophonists
- Musicians from New York (state)
- Living people
- 1949 births
- 21st-century saxophonists
- 21st-century American male musicians
- Atavistic Records artists
- Black Saint/Soul Note artists
- Music & Arts artists
- Intakt Records artists
- RogueArt artists
- American jazz saxophonist stubs