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The Fictive Five
2+ albums
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Harris Eisenstadt, Drums / Ken Filiano, Bass / Pascal Niggenkemper, Bass / Nate Wooley, Trumpet Larry Ochs, Compositions, Tenor and Sopranino Saxophones A founding member of the Rova Sax Quartet, Larry Ochs has worked with many of the greatest musicians in Creative Music—Steve Lacy, Fred Frith, Wadada Leo Smith, Terry Riley, Marilyn Crispell, John Zorn, Nels Cline, Anthony Braxton and countless others. His newest ensemble is an update on the classic New York Contemporary Five and features Larry’s Shepp-tinged tenor sax along with some of the best young players out of New York’s Downtown scene. Ochs is particularly excited by both the ensemble sound and the music, a set of pieces inspired by the works of visual artist William Kentridge and film-makers Wim Wenders and Kelly Reichardt, which he considers to be among his strongest and most successful blendings of composition and improvisation. Fabulous and soulful, The Fictive Five is a tremendous achievement by this West Coast master of surprise! Saxophonist Larry Ochs flew in from San Francisco to give the European premiere of his band The Fictive Five (Aug. 4, 2017, at Jazz em Agosto, Lisbon). The band features a mostly New Yorker lineup of Nate Wooley (trumpet), Harris Eisenstadt (drums), with the twin bass “orchestra” of Ken Filiano and Pascal Niggenkemper (the latter a Franco-German who has lived in New York for several years). This bass team switched roles at an alarming rate, swapping between bowing, strumming, attachi
top songs
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Immediate Human Response (for Spike Lee)
442The Others Dream
393And the Door Blows Open (for Cecil Taylor)
344A Fictive Form of Closure
315With Liberties and Latitude for All (for Warren Sonbert)
316With Liberties and Latitude for All (for Warren Sonbert)
67And the Door Blows Open (for Cecicil Taylor)
28Immediate Human Response
29With Liberties and Latitude for All [For Warren Sonbert]
110Immediate Human Response [For Spike Lee]
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