The Crowd (Rova Saxophone Quartet album)

The Crowd (subtitled For Elias Canetti) is an album by the Rova Saxophone Quartet recorded in France in 1985 for the Swiss Hathut label.[1]

The Crowd
Studio album by
Rova Saxophone Quartet
Released1986
RecordedJune 20–23, 1985
StudioStudio Charles Cros. Maison de la Culture d'Amiens, France
GenreJazz
Length78:40
LabelHathut
hat ART 2032
ProducerPia and Werner X. Uehlinger
Rova Saxophone Quartet chronology
Favorite Street
(1983)		 The Crowd
(1986)		 Beat Kennel
(1987)

Reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]

The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek states "The Crowd is seamless in both composition and execution after the first few minutes that is "Sport," and directly into the nearly 20-minute title work it becomes impossible for the listener to know what was written and what was improvised. Certainly each member of this group solos, but it is the simultaneous improvisation and the harmonic texture of the composition itself that winds and weaves its way not only though different musical territory (there is even a section that nods toward Adams and Philip Glass), but diverse emotional ground is covered as well. To call this music "jazz" would be both accurate and a mistake, for it is both entirely jazz and not at all; to call it "free music" or "new music" would be just plain lazy and stupid; to call this ROVA music would make sense".[2]

Track listing
  1. "Sport" (Bruce Ackley, Phil Ochs, Jon Raskin, Andrew Voigt) – 3:05
  2. "The Crowd" (Ackley, Ochs, Raskin, Voigt) – 19:12
  3. "Room" (Ochs) – 10:40
  4. "Knife in the Times 1-8" (Ochs) – 29:25
  5. "Terrains" (Raskin) – 16:19

Personnel
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References
  1. Rova Discography: The Crowd accessed January 31, 2017
  2. Jurek, Thom. ROVA – The Crowd: Review at AllMusic. Retrieved January 31, 2017.
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