ROVA Sax Quartet/Nels Cline Singers - The Celestial Septet CD
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05-New World 80708
Excellent match-up between two superb L.A. ensembles. I heard an early preview of this over a year ago and was very impressed and and am even more impressed now - the sum is greater than the parts! Recommended!
"The story of the Celestial Septet is that of two bands becoming one. On their own, the Nels Cline Singers and the Rova Saxophone Quartet have established themselves as the most forward-looking groups not only in their respective formats - a trio of guitar, bass, and drums, and a quartet of saxophones ranging from baritone to sopranino - but also in the area of music that has variously and inadequately been called "free," "avant-garde," "creative," and "improvised." Elements of jazz, rock, fusion, late-20th-century classical, minimalism, and noise inform their combined efforts. And perhaps most significantly, separately and conjoined, these units defy categorization by taking composition as seriously as they take improvisation, and by taking neither so seriously as to let one get in the way of the other."
Bruce Ackley, soprano, tenor saxophones
Steve Adams, alto, sopranino saxophones
Scott Amendola, drums
Nels Cline, guitars
Devin Hoff, bass
Larry Ochs, tenor, sopranino saxophones
Jon Raskin, baritone, alto, sopranino saxophones
- LabelNew World
- UPC093228070825