Rova Saxophone Quartet at Timucua Arts White House

In noting ROVA’s innovative role in developing the all-saxophone ensemble as “a regular and conceptually wide-ranging unit,” The Penguin Guide to Jazz calls its music “a teeming cosmos of saxophone sounds” created by “deliberately eschewing conventional notions about swing [and] prodding at the boundaries of sound and space…” Expect that practice to continue. In our collective live experiences with the quartet, they are identifiable as consummate ensemble musicians. The four players act atomic in structure, rearranging to create new bonds and molecules that adapt to the environment, compositional rules and their outside collaborators....

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In noting ROVA’s innovative role in developing the all-saxophone ensemble as “a regular and conceptually wide-ranging unit,” The Penguin Guide to Jazz calls its music “a teeming cosmos of saxophone sounds” created by “deliberately eschewing conventional notions about swing [and] prodding at the boundaries of sound and space…” Expect that practice to continue. In our collective live experiences with the quartet, they are identifiable as consummate ensemble musicians. The four players act atomic in structure, rearranging to create new bonds and molecules that adapt to the environment, compositional rules and their outside collaborators.

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