OGJB Quartet - Ode To O

Oliver Lake, Graham Haynes, Joe Fonda, Barry Altschul

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2022 release

Ever since its first performance at the Winter Jazz Festival in 2016, the OGJB Quartet has been highly acclaimed as one of the most creative collaborative groups working today. Two of its members, Lake and Altschul, are pioneers of modern improvised music going back to its origins in the 1960s, while each of the other two, Haynes and Fonda, have been a strong presence on the improvised music scene since the late 1970s.

The group´s name, an acronym of each musician´s first name, reflects its status as a true collaborative unit. Each member of the OGJB Quartet is also a composer in his own right and a master on his chosen instrument. Accordingly, their second recording together, which follows the highly acclaimed Bamako released in 2019, again features original compositions by all four of its members and two collective improvisations.

The album is named after Barry Altschul´s composition dedicated to the late Ornette Coleman. According to Altschul, "Ode to O" is a melody that came to him in a dream after hearing of the passing of Ornette Coleman in 2015. The recording also features "Da Bang," a composition originally dedicated by Altschul to the violin great Billy Bang and designed to stimulate improvising.

Whereas Bamako was fully acoustic, Ode To O introduces a new element with Graham Haynes incorporating the use of live electronics on one of his two compositions on the new recording, "The Other Side," and on one of the collective improvisations, "OGJB #4." "Graham´s use of electronics took the quartet into a totally new zone," says Fonda. "It opened up the music to new and fresh possibilities."

Oliver Lake contributed two compositions, "Justice" and "Bass Bottom." "Each of them is unique and quite different from the other," says Fonda. "Whenever anyone gets the opportunity to play Oliver´s music, they are transported into the Lake universe of sound. That is where the OGJB Quartet again went when we recorded his two pieces."

"This second recording by the OGJB Quartet draws from a wide range of musical influences that exist inside the quartet," say Fonda. "On this recording, we pulled out all the stops."

"Ode To Orepresents the huge data set that is the collective experiences of Oliver Lake, Graham Haynes, Joe Fonda and Barry Altschul, representing a wide swath of what remains vital in jazz," says Bill Shoemaker in his liner notes. "Each performance spools out like a quintuple helix, each strand containing the humanity of music that cries, hollers and sings."

Oliver Lake alto and soprano saxophones
Graham Haynes cornet, electronics
Joe Fonda double bass
Barry Altschul drums, percussion

 

 

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