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And if I can&#8217;t be in Guelph (which, alas, I can&#8217;t), anything I can do to ensure a professional video record of the occasion is an effort worth making. It is enough to note that John Coltrane was to jazz pretty much what Shakespeare was to the stage, and that <i style='mso-bidi-font-style: normal'>Ascension </i>is the piece that most decisively pushes his capabilities to the limit &#8211; think of it as the <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Lear</i> of free-form music. It&#8217;s a world not so much to follow as to inhabit, and when you are inside it as a listener you go boldly where no one has gone before &#8211; pretty much literally. <o:p></o:p></span></p>  <p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1E1C11;mso-themecolor:background2; mso-themeshade:26;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#1E1C11;mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background2;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=10000'>The finest concert I have ever heard &#8211; <i style='mso-bidi-font-style: normal'>ever </i>&#8211; was a ROVA performance of <i style='mso-bidi-font-style: normal'>The Hive</i>, a site-specific work performed at 80 Langton Street when that was still a performance art space in San Francisco. Folding chairs were set back-to-back-to-back in triangles (akin I suppose to the cells in a hive) while the quartet performed from the outer rim of the small brick building. It&#8217;s a piece that ROVA has never recorded because it was, in fact, site-specific, but it&#8217;s precisely the kind of work that might have been preserved in some form had this kind of technology been available at the time. ROVA&#8217;s musicians are my age &#8211; which means that they won&#8217;t be here in 50 years, any more than Coltrane is around now &#8211; so this is a critical opportunity to make something important happen in the world of music. They have until July 25 to make this happen and, as of July 2, they weren&#8217;t quite halfway there. <o:p></o:p></span></p>  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:#1E1C11;mso-themecolor:background2;mso-themeshade:26;mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #1E1C11;mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor:background2;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=10000'><a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1737726083/channeling-coltrane-a-concert-video-of-electric-as"><span style='color:#000019;mso-themecolor:hyperlink;mso-themeshade:26;mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #000019;mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor:hyperlink;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=10000'>KickStart the concert video of <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Electric Ascension</i></span></a><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>Jon Raskin&#8217;s world premiere of<br> </span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style: normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black;mso-themecolor: text1'>The <span class=SpellE>Hear</span> and Now</span></i></b><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor: text1'><br> </span></i><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>at <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.archive.org/details/other_minds"><span style='color:black; mso-themecolor:text1'>Other Minds</span></a></i></span><i style='mso-bidi-font-style: normal'> 10 </i><br> at San Francisco's <br> Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, <br> 2004<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><o:p></o:p></i></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Finally, the <a href="http://rova.org/aboutrova/"><span style='color:black'>ROVA</span></a> portion of the &#8220;Orkestrova&#8221; kicks in as <a href="http://www.ochs.cc/"><span style='color:black'>Larry Ochs</span></a>, <a href="http://www.bayimproviser.com/artistdetail.asp?artist_id=23"><span style='color:black'>Bruce Ackley</span></a>, <a href="http://www.jazzword.com/nova/showreview.pl?item=artist&amp;artist_id=102538&amp;artist_name=John%20Raskin"><span style='color:black'>John <span class=SpellE>Raskin</span></span></a> &amp; <a href="http://www.ninewinds.com/Artists/adams.html"><span style='color:black'>Steve Adams</span></a> of the ROVA saxophone quartet come in. By now, the 400-seat theater is utterly filled with a <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>solid wall of sound</b>. The only time I&#8217;ve ever heard anything like it in my life was a Paul Butterfield Concert at UC Berkeley, circa 1965, where the  </span><st1:City><st1:place><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Chicago</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> blues band turned its volume up to max &amp; wailed. The feeling tonight, tho, is different. It&#8217;s not about volume, but about fullness. If it&#8217;s a wall, it&#8217;s a remarkably <a href="http://www.cyberpathway.com/art/lane/nevel1.jpg"><span style='color:black'>Louise <span class=SpellE>Nevelson</span></span></a> kind of structure, not the slightest monolithic or totalitarian. But it is unquestionably overwhelming. Your immediate instinct is to check your &#8220;fight or flight&#8221; reaction. And you can feel the 300 or so other souls in the audience doing likewise. But almost instantaneously, you begin to hear <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>into </b>the music, as the Orkestrova begins to explore the intent &amp; possibilities of  John Coltrane&#8217;s vision of epic improvisation. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Electric Ascension </span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>is an arrangement of John Coltrane&#8217;s 1965 masterwork, <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.vervemusicgroup.com/product.aspx?ob=disc&amp;src=art&amp;pid=9600"><span style='color:black'>Ascension</span></a>, </i>in which Coltrane attempted &#8211; whether he succeeded or not has been a point of contention for over 40 years &#8211; to create a form for intense improvisation within the big band form. &#8216;<span class=SpellE>Trane</span> also used 11 musicians: five saxophone players (himself, Archie <span class=SpellE>Shepp</span> &amp; <span class=SpellE>Pharoah</span> Sanders on tenor sax, Marion Brown &amp; John <span class=SpellE>Tchicai</span> on alto), two trumpets (Freddie Hubbard, Dewey Johnson), McCoy Tyner on piano, two bass players (Art Davis &amp; Jimmy Garrison), and Elvin Jones on drums. Coltrane&#8217;s version &#8211; he recorded it twice &amp; actually switched versions midway through the original release of the LP &#8211; runs roughly 40 minutes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>So in 2003, ROVA set out to do it again, but with a new arrangement that incorporates the latest trends in contemporary music ensembles. In the version that was recorded by KFJC &amp; released as the <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Electric Ascension </i>CD, Robinson is still on drums &amp; Chris Brown is still involved, now on electronics. The string section &#8211; <span class=SpellE>Kihlstedt</span> &amp; <span  class=SpellE>Scheinman</span> &#8211; is the same as played at I-House on Saturday. And you will find Nels Cline still on guitar. On the recorded version, however, Fred <span class=SpellE>Frith</span> handles the bass, <span class=SpellE>Otomo</span> <span class=SpellE>Yoshilhide</span> the turntables &amp; <span class=SpellE>Ikue</span> Mori operates the drum machines in lieu of an accordion. The CD is superb, but you will need great speakers and a lot of volume to get even a remote sense of what we heard at I-House. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>This is where the question of live vs. recorded music, especially in a genre with a lot of improvisation, becomes especially acute. Two of the musicians on Saturday &#8211; Rosenfeld on turn tables &amp; <span class=SpellE>Cyrille</span> on drums &#8211; were tackling the composition for the very first time. Others have been there for each of its nine or ten performances to date. In any event, the transformation into a new arrangement with new instruments removes any impulse toward literal recreation: the most you get are the reiteration of certain key themes, particularly at the beginning &amp; end. As the piece evolves &#8211; there are a remarkable number of potential combinations to consider, tho the final project is actually spare in terms of the number it deploys &#8211; some remarkable moments &amp; explorations occur &#8211; the high point Saturday (for me at least) was the violin duet between <span class=SpellE>Kihlstedt</span> &amp; <span class=SpellE>Scheinman</span>, who&#8217;ve collaborated on more than a few projects together since they first met at Oberlin &#8211; it was both a collaboration &amp;, it felt, a contest almost in the rap challenge or &#8220;doing the dozens&#8221; sense. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>My program has notes scribbled over it describing my sense of the feeling of the overall project during the course of the 60-plus minutes that the Orkestrova takes to work its way through Coltrane&#8217;s 40-minute map: <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>wall &#8594; ocean &#8594; forest &#8594; cathedral</i></b><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>. </i>Each, it occurs to me in retrospect, represents a stage of increasing involvement &amp; differentiation, from the impenetrability of the initial wall through the dive into to the <span class=SpellE>overallness</span> of the ocean to some individuation of details (literally the trees within the forest) to, finally, a resonant &amp; remarkably symmetrical sense of architectural form. <o:p></o:p></span></p> 

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The was the first time in the non-quite-twelve years that I&#8217;ve lived in Philadelphia that ROVA has played here, and it occurred to me that one of the things I miss <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>most </i>about not living in the Bay Area is not being able to hear this group two or three times each year. There are early sections of <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Alphabet, Blue </i>in particular, that were written almost entirely either at live jazz events in San Francisco (especially the large free jam sessions at Pangaea on Bernal Heights that often would involve two or three members of <span class=SpellE>ROVA&#8217;s</span> original lineup, plus others such as <a href="http://www.ndorward.com/music/gruntfest.htm"><span style='color:black'>John Gruntfest</span></a>). Although the expansion of distribution, from houses like the <a href="http://www.jazzloft.com/"><span style='color:black'>Jazz Loft</span></a> or the <a href="http://downtownmusicgallery.com/Main/"><span style='color:black'>Downtown Music Gallery</span></a> (which is just up the street from the Bowery Poetry Club in Manhattan), has improved greatly in recent years, Saturday&#8217;s event reminded me no amount of CDs or downloadable MP3s can replace the three-dimension experience of literally being <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>in the music </b>at a live performance, especially one that has as many ideas, as densely &amp; intensely packed, as this one. So here&#8217;s to the <a href="http://www.arsnovaworkshop.com/"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Ars</span></span><span style='color:black'> Nova Workshop</span></a>, who sponsored the ROVA Orkestrova last Saturday, and which has been a fabulous addition to our local music ecology. <a href="http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/view.php?id=10758"><span style='color:black'>Mark <span class=SpellE>Christman</span></span></a>, the secret sauce of the <span class=SpellE>Ars</span> Nova project, has been doing a great job. Thank you, Mark!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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