Larry Ochs’ Fictive Five $15 adv/door Thursday at 7:30 pm
Last seen and heard at Barking Legs in the company of Nels Cline and Gerald Cleaver, saxophonist Larry Ochs returns with an exciting new project.
A founding member of the Rova Sax Quartet, Larry Ochs has worked with many of the greatest musicians in Creative Music—Steve Lacy, Fred Frith, Wadada Leo Smith, Terry Riley, Marilyn Crispell, John Zorn, Nels Cline, Anthony Braxton and countless others. His newest ensemble is an update on the classic New York Contemporary Five and features Larry’s Shepp-tinged tenor sax along with some of the best young players out of New York’s Downtown scene. Ochs is particularly excited by both the ensemble sound and the music, a set of pieces inspired by the works of visual artist William Kentridge and film-makers Wim Wenders and Kelly Reichardt, which he considers to be among his strongest and most successful blendings of composition and improvisation. Fabulous and soulful, The Fictive Five is a tremendous achievement by this West Coast master of surprise!
The band: Harris Eisenstadt, Drums / Ken Filiano, Bass / Pascal Niggenkemper, Bass / Nate Wooley, Trumpet Larry Ochs, Compositions, Tenor and Sopranino Saxophones
The band is touring support of a new CD. This is one of the few US gigs they’ve scheduled in advance of a slate of European performances later in the month.
“It breaks new ground while working through the deep roots of Ochs’ conception, invoking Archie Shepp and Albert Ayler to achieve a depth of expression reaching back to New Orleans primitives(according to Jerome Rothenberg, “primitive means complex”) like the Eureka Brass Band.” NYC Jazz Record
“Lovely melodies in an avant setting, with inspired and motivated musicians carrying the music forward with instant and appropriate creations. The crowd loved it, among the most artful and original of the festival.” Irwin Block, Jazz em Agosto Festival Review
Barking Legs Theater is a superb, intimate concert hall and performance venue that has established a reputation as a great place for musicians and listeners alike. We are known throughout the Southeast as a venue with great acoustics and remarkable intimacy. Barking Legs is a listener’s dream, where each note and word rings clearly, promoting the sort of rapt attention impossible in the typical club or barroom setting. Performers love it! Our 80 fixed seats all have great sight lines and we can accommodate overflow crowds up to 175. Our in-house events offer a concession area and you are invited to take your beverages with you into the theater. And if you’re curious about the name, its origin stems from the “bark leggins” that were worn by scouts and woodsmen of the Appalachian region in the last century.