Larry Ochs Trio

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Saxophonist Larry Ochs is primarily found in the worlds of “avant-garde jazz” or “improvised music,” composing music for bands such as Rova Sax Quartet (since 1978), Figure Eight, The Fictive Five, Kihnoua (with vocalist Dohee Lee and Scott Amendola)  Larry Ochs Sax & Drumming Core (with Satoko Fujii, Natsuki Tamura, Amendola and Don Robinson on drums) , the Ochs-Robinson Duo and The Northern Fictions Consort. He also loves playing in bands that exclusively work with collectively created music with musicians such as Nels Cline and Gerald Cleaver (Every Winter Trio); Mark Dresser and Vladimir Tarasov (Jones Jones); Dave Rempis and Darren Johnston (Spectral); Lisa Mezzacappa, Ben Davis, Darren Johnston, Kjell Nordeson, Kyle Bruckmann (Tales End); Fred Frith and Miya Masaoka (Maybe Monday).  

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Bassist/Guitarist/Percussionist Joe Morris has performed and/or recorded with many of the most impactful contemporary artists in improvised music including, Anthony Braxton, Wadada Leo Smith, Evan Parker, John Zorn, Ken Vandermark, Barry Guy, Mary Halvorson, Tyshawn Sorey, William Parker, Dewey Redman, Marshall Allen, Matthew Shipp, Tomeka Reid, Ikue Mori, John Butcher, Agusti Fernandez, David S.Ware, Peter Evans, Joe Maneri, Joe McPhee, Joelle Leandre, Nicole Mitchell, etc.

He is featured leading his own groups as a sideman or collaborator on more than 170 recordings on the labels ECM, ESPdisk, Clean Feed, Hat Hut, Aum Fidelity, Avant, OkkaDisk, Not Two, Soul Note, Leo, No Business, Rogue Art, Relative Pitch, Incus, RareNoise, Fundacja Sluchaj, Mahakala Music, his own labels Riti and Glacial Erratic and others. Morris has toured extensively throughout North America and Europe as well as in Brazil, Korea and Japan. He has lectured and conducted workshops on his own music and on improvisation throughout the U.S, including at Princeton University, Dartmouth College and Harvard University as well as in Canada, Korea, Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden, Belgium and Ireland. Since 2000, he has been on the faculty in the Jazz and Contemporary Musical Arts Department at New England Conservatory of Music. Morris is the author of the book, Perpetual Frontier: The Properties of Free Music (Riti Publishing 2012).

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Drummer/percussionist Michael Wimberly has performed with funk legends George Clinton and the Parliament Funkedelic; The Boys Choir of Harlem; Paul Winter Consort; rock icons: Vernon Reid, Henry Rollins, and Blondie; R&B royalty: Dionne Warwick, Valerie Simpson, D'Angelo, Angie Stone and Alyson Williams. Wimberly's been a featured artist with Berlin’s Rundfunk Symphony, Vienna’s TonkuntslerSymphony, Leipzig Symphony, and International Region Symphony Orchestra performing compositions of Daniel Schnyder, as well as his own orchestral compositions performed by the Yakima Symphony Orchestra, and Sage City Symphony of Vermont. \

Wimberly’s percussion instruction book/DVD “Getting Started on Djembe” and “Getting Started on Cajon” have received stellar reviews and is available from Hudson Music/Hal Leonard publications. His latest album, “Afrofuturism” on the Temple Mountain Record label (TMR) distributed on Warner Music Group/Level, can be accessed on all streaming platforms. Wimberly joined the Bennington faculty in Fall 2012, where the revolutionary spirit continues in his courses on black music by Sun Ra, Bill Dixon, Milford Graves, Miles Davis, and Interstellar Outness while regenerating through courses on Funk, Improvisation, Composition for Dance, and global rhythms.