Larry Ochs

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Larry Ochs with The Fictive Five at Club W71 , 2019

Lawrence "Larry" Ochs (* 3. May 1949 in New York City ) is an American jazz - saxophonist (tenor and sopranino saxophone) and composer .

Live and act

Larry Ochs first learned the trumpet, but soon switched to the tenor and sopranino saxophone. In 1978 he worked as a record producer and founded his own label, Metalanguage Records . He was also co-founder of the saxophone formation Rova Saxophone Quartet , and worked in Glenn Spearman's Double Trio . As a composer he has worked for numerous commissioned works, such as for the play Goya's LA by Leslie Scalapino (1994) and for the documentary Letters Not About Love (1998) by his sister Jacki Ochs. He also played from 1986 in the trio formation Room (with pianist Chris Brown and drummer William Winant ) and the What We Live Ensemble with bassist Lisle Ellis and drummer Donald Robinson . Ochs recorded several albums under his own name, including a. on the Black Saint Label, and has worked on recordings with Andrea Centazzo , Scott Fields , Ben Goldberg and John Lindberg . He is director of The Fictive Five ensemble with Nate Wooley , Ken Filiano , Pascal Niggenkemper and Harris Eisenstadt .

Discographic notes

As a leader

As a sideman

  • Ben Goldberg: Eight Phrases for Jefferson Rubin (Victo, 1996)
  • John Lindberg: Bounce (Black Saint, 1997)
  • ROVA: Bingo (Victo, 1996); The Works, Vol. 1-3 (Black Saint, 1994-1997)
  • Glenn Spearman: Mystery Project (Black Saint, 1992); The Fields (Black Saint, 1996); Blues for Falsha ( Tzadik , 1997)
  • What We Live: Trumpets (Black Saint, 1998)

literature

Web links / sources

Commons : Larry Ochs  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.allaboutjazz.com To AAJ Interview with Larry Ochs January 2000
personal data
SURNAME Ochs, Larry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ochs, Lawrence
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz saxophonist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City