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Rova Sax Quartet at North Street Cabaret
Courtesy of Brown Paper Tickets | Posted on August 17, 2022
Where
North Street Cabaret
610 North Street
Madison, WI
Map
(608) 422-5646
When
Sat, October 8, 2022
8:00 pm
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Musicians
Rova Saxophone Quartet
saxophoneAbout
Think of the human voice in music. The most primal of instruments, it can melt you or move you to tears on the spot. Then its the saxophone, one-step removed from the human voice, and the next most powerful messenger in music. Johnny Hodges, Albert Ayler, Steve Lacy, Pharoah Sanders, Oliver Lake, King Curtis, Tim Berne, John Butcher - to name only a few of the many singular voices on the instrument who, with one short phrase or even one sound, can take your breath away, or excite and inspire you to great heights.
Multiply that power, that capability, times 4, and you have a saxophone quartet. Rova Sax Quartet: a group that can move you the way an Eastern European choir of voices can move you, but also a group with force, a force that can feel as if it's tearing the walls of the listening space down, or that can simulate the complex sound of a machine, or one of natures wild phenomena, or conversely, the almost-silent overlapping sound patterns heard with eyes closed in a field in the wilderness....