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MUSIC: The treasured Bay Area ensemble returns for the first time since their January 2017 performance of their groundbreaking extended ensemble work Electric Ascension.

ROVA Saxophone Quartet – Exploratory Ensemble

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Date(s) - 11/12/2021
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM

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SFJAZZ Center

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Rova Saxophone Quartet’s concert on FRI, NOV 12 will be broadcast live as part of Fridays Live, available to all SFJAZZ Members.

A treasured Bay Area ensemble whose connection to SFJAZZ goes back to the second Jazz in the City festival in 1984, the Rova Saxophone Quartet has consistently explored the fertile territory at the edges of composition and improvisation. Since their formation in 1978, the group has been both a generator of stimulating new compositions from members Bruce Ackley, Steve Adams, Larry Ochs, and Jon Raskin and a workshop for collaboration with many the visionary composers of the 20th and 21st century including Anthony Braxton, Alvin Curran, John Zorn, Steve Lacy, Terry Riley, Henry Threadgill, Wadada Leo Smith, Fred Frith, Nels Cline, Henry Kaiser, and Carla Kihlstedt, among others.

Rova returns for the first time since their January 2017 performance of their groundbreaking extended ensemble work Electric Ascension, conceived by tenor saxophonist Ochs as a radical interpretation and expansion of John Coltrane’s 1965 watershed composition Ascension, with guests Trey Spruance, Zeena Parkins, Fred Frith, and Gino Robair.


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