Every Day → All The Way documents the very first performance of the American trio of highly experienced and creative improvisers – Berkeley-based tenor and sopranino sax player Larry Ochs (b. 1949, co-founder of ROVA Saxophone Quartet, and member of the Jones Jones trio, who has been member of Maybe Monday, and What We Live); Boston-based prolific double bass player Joe Morris (b. 1955, who is also a guitarist, drummer and educator, who has studied with ESP-Disk’ legend, pianist Lowell Davidson, and the author of the crucial book Perpetual Frontier / The Properties of Free Music); and New York-based drummer Charles Downs (aka Rashid Bakr, b.1943, of various Cecil Taylor groups, Other Dimensions in Music, and Flow Trio with Morris).

This free jazz meets free improvising, super trio was recorded live at Park West Studios in Brooklyn in July 2023, and already in its first-ever performance sounds like it has been playing together for years. The rhythm section of the Flow Trio (who released its debut album Rejuvenation and third, last one, Winter Garden with Joe McPhee on ESP-Disk, 2009 and 2021) suggests a series of free and powerful, fast-shifting pulses and propels the poetic, soulful sax flights of Ochs. The music flows organically, charged with an urgent and intense yet unpredictable rhythmic power, constantly alternating between the raw and the lyrical. Ochs, Morris, and Downs always serve the music, and the five pieces gravitate into a loose, instant suite.

The album’s title references the poetry of Ochs’ late wife, poetess Lyn Hejinian. It captures faithfully the beauty of the art of the moment, as Ochs, Morris, and Downs are totally possessed – all the way – by the spontaneous, intuitive, and selfless, collective act of making music. The cover artwork is by experimental drummer Jon Bafus (who did the cover artwork for Ochs’ Jones Jones’ Just Justice, ESP-Disk, 2022).

Eyal Hareuveni

Charles Downs (drums), Joe Morris (double bass), Larry Ochs (tenor saxophone, sopranino saxophone)