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Rova Orkestrova - No Favorites! - For Lawrence "Butch" Morris (2016) {New World Records 80782-2}
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© 2016 New World Records / Anthology Of Recorded Music | 80782-2
Jazz / Contemporary Jazz / Modern Creative / Experimental Big Band / Progressive Jazz

No Favorites pays homage to one of the most original creators in improvised music, Lawrence 'Butch' Morris (1947-2013), inventor of Conduction, a method for organizing large-ensemble improvisation that he took to the world. The program represents a working relationship that Rova began with Morris in 1988 and also reflects parallel working processes reaching back to the mid-1970s. Rova do more than simply pay tribute. The quartet's members build on their own work in structured improvisation, incorporate other methods of organization – from graphic scores to conventional notation – and expand their palette from the saxophone quartet to include a string quartet and an electric power trio.

The album pays homage to some of Argue’s key influences with original songs dedicated to R. Buckminster Fuller, Alan Turing, and Mae West. Fellow Nonesuch artist Cécile McLorin Salvant, with whom Argue collaborated on her long-form musical fable Ogresse, joins the ensemble for “Mae West: Advice.” Dynamic Maximum Tension’s eleven tracks, on two CDs, also include a response to Duke Ellington’s “Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue,” titled “Tensile Curves,” among other original songs.