Next Shows
Many new shows have been added to the calendar, including Rova at Bird & Beckett on June 13.
A new recording has been completed of commissions by Miya Masaoka, Gino Robair and John Butcher’s The Knot Gallery along with Raskin’s Winter Valley Clouds and Steve Adams’ Those who…
SF International Arts Festival
Bruce and Jon are featured separately in the SF International Arts Festival in April and May
Archive
We’ll be archiving our 50 years of work at Stanford University’s Music Library
Rova on the Air
Rova streams past concerts on their YouTube channel
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Rova's updated BandCamp page now includes an exclusive digital download of the long out-of-print Rova CD “Long on Logic.” Some great tunes by Fred Frith and Henry Kaiser! Click here
Guest Contributors to On Rova’s Radar such as Lisa Mezzacappa, Allison Miller, Henry Kaiser, and Nels Cline can be read by clicking here . Sign up for the next issue of On Rova’s Radar here . Issued bi-monthly.
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Center for New Music
Rova is now in residence at Center for New Music. The Center, located at 55 Taylor
Street, is establishing a hub for the new music community, providing space to work,
learn, rehearse and perform. Check out the website here
We invite you to click on "Food for Thought" above and dig into the four Favorite Street archives there. Here you can read about all kinds of films, books, CDs, and ideas that have intrigued individual members of Rova in the recent past. A new Favorite Street article appears bimonthly in our new e-letter called On Rova's Radar . As well: musicians such as Henry Kaiser, Nels Cline and Vinny Golia have or will in the future be telling stories or throwing out ideas On Rova's Radar. Sign up to receive On Rova's Radar here.
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Come back often. We will keep you updated on all of Rova:Arts happenings and regularly upload new content from the Rova archives.
The Circumference of Reason
Announcing the October 15, 2021 release of Rova’s first quartet recording since 2018.
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In Transverse Time
The release of In Transverse Time marks Rova’s 40th anniversary, and the quartet’s
leap into a 5th decade of intrepid artistic activity.
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to buy directly from Rova:Arts and for more information on the
CD.
Saxophone Special Revisited
Rova's tribute to Steve Lacy's Saxophone Special.
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to buy directly from Rova:Arts and for more information on the
CD.
Also available from Clean Feed Records
No Favorites
Rova's homage to Lawrence "Butch" Morris.
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for more information.
Available from New World Records
Rova Channeling Coltrane
Electric Ascension (DVD / BluRay / CD)
Cleaning the Mirror (DVD)
Live 2012 concert from Gueph Jazz festival with an all-star cast. Cleaning the Mirror
is the documentary on the making of EA.
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A Short History
A CD of original works by band members recorded in February, 2003 and August, 2011.
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Rova:Zorn
The Receiving Surfaces.
John Zorn and Rova's 2010 concert documented on a Limited Edition vinyl LP
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Planetary
7 chamber works for Rova by Adams and Ochs
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