{"id":277,"date":"2009-12-10T16:40:27","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T21:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/2009\/12\/thats_not_jazz_spaniard_tells\/"},"modified":"2011-04-28T16:33:23","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T20:33:23","slug":"thats_not_jazz_spaniard_tells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2009\/12\/thats_not_jazz_spaniard_tells.html","title":{"rendered":"That’s not jazz, Spaniard tells saxophonist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Larry Ochs’ Sax & Drumming Core<\/a> may not be al gusto<\/i> for everyone, but should Spain’s Civil Guard decide whether it plays “jazz”? At the Sig\u00c3\u00bcenza Jazz Festival<\/a> a disgruntled purist demanded his ticket money back claiming he was subjected to “contemporary music” rather than jazz fitting his definition; pistol-packing cops backed him up (which makes me wonder what they thought of last week’s concert by Digital Primitives<\/a>). Read the Guardian account here<\/a>.<\/p>\n


\nOchs is, for those who don’t know, a founding member of the estimable East Bay-based ROVA Saxophone Quartet<\/a>. Stone Shift<\/i>, his Sax & Drumming Core’s recent release from the French label RogueArt<\/a> features his alternately garrulous and tender extended-technique tenor and sopranino improvisations on four somewhat open form compositions with post-Coltrane harmonic extrapolations, engaged collaboration from Satoko Fujii on piano and synth, Natsuki Tamura on trumpet and drummers Scott Amendola and Donald Robinson. Most of the recording is live from a 2007 concert at Teatro Fondamenta Nuove<\/a>, Venice. No reports have surfaced about gondoliers or anyone else protesting either the newness or jazziness of that performance. Word: jazz and “new music” are one and the same. Purists beware!<\/p>\n

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