Mind melding convergence upcoming at LOOVE ANNEX- a huge honor to present this inventive ensemble:

Larry Ochs, co-founder in 1977 of ROVA Saxophone Quartet, was born in New York City but has long been based on the West Coast, specifically the Bay Area. He has also been a member the John Lindberg Ensemble,  The International Creative Music Orchestra along with many other collaborations. 

The legendary Joe Morris, guitarist and bassist, has well over 50 albums as a leader, including albums on ESP-Disk’ under his own name and with Flow Trio and Fay Victor’s SoundNoiseFUNK—and a guitar duo with Elliott Sharp due later this year. He’s also the author of the crucial book Perpetual Frontier / The Properties of Free Music and on the New England Conservatory faculty.

Charles Downs, the senior member of the trio, is also known to jazz aficionados as Rashid Bakr, the performing name he used while drumming in various Cecil Taylor groups and elsewhere. He’s also been in groups including Ensemble Muntu, Other Dimensions in Music, Flow Trio,  and has recorded with Billy Bang, Glenn Spearman, Jamie Saft, Ras Moshe Burnett, William Parker, Arthur Doyle, Sabir Mateen, Joe McPhee, and many more.