The Crowd (Rova Saxophone Quartet album)

The Crowd
Studio album by Rova Saxophone Quartet
Released 1986
Recorded June 20–23, 1985
Studio Studio Charles Cros. Maison de la Culture d'Amiens, France
Genre Jazz
Length 78:40
Label Hathut
hat ART 2032
Producer Pia and Werner X. Uehlinger
Rova Saxophone Quartet chronology
Favorite Street
(1983)Favorite Street1983		 The Crowd
(1986)		 Beat Kennel
(1987)Beat Kennel1987

The Crowd (subtitled For Elias Canetti) is an album by the Rova Saxophone Quartet recorded in France in 1985 for the Swiss Hathut label.[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]

The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek states "The Crowd is seamless in both composition and execution after the first few minutes that is "Sport," and directly into the nearly 20-minute title work it becomes impossible for the listener to know what was written and what was improvised. Certainly each member of this group solos, but it is the simultaneous improvisation and the harmonic texture of the composition itself that winds and weaves its way not only though different musical territory (there is even a section that nods toward Adams and Philip Glass), but diverse emotional ground is covered as well. To call this music "jazz" would be both accurate and a mistake, for it is both entirely jazz and not at all; to call it "free music" or "new music" would be just plain lazy and stupid; to call this ROVA music would make sense".[2]

Track listing

  1. "Sport" (Bruce Ackley, Phil Ochs, Jon Raskin, Andrew Voigt) – 3:05
  2. "The Crowd" (Ackley, Ochs, Raskin, Voigt) – 19:12
  3. "Room" (Ochs) – 10:40
  4. "Knife in the Times 1-8" (Ochs) – 29:25
  5. "Terrains" (Raskin) – 16:19

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Rova Discography: The Crowd accessed January 31, 2017
  2. 1 2 Jurek, Thom. ROVA – The Crowd: Review at AllMusic. Retrieved January 31, 2017.
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