Recorded live at Mills College in 1995. This piece was commissioned by Antwerpen 93 in the year Antwerp was designated “Culture Capital of Europe.,” and first performed there that same year. Dedicated to Rene Magritte, the great Belgian artist. Kind of a musical representation of his art, if that’s possible. (It isn’t.) Explanation of the 56 minute work enclosed in extensive liner notes, but this piece was imagined as a concerto for bass duo with plenty of room for the other participants to chime in. …. Bill Shoemaker in Jazz Times writes: The Secret Magritte is quintessetially a composition of the information age. The processing requirements of the performers are immensE, extending far beyond the baselines of intense concentration and sure reflexes needed for most improvisational settings. The beauty of Ochs’ architecture is how the intricacies of process and method are subsumed by the immediacy of the music. …..This performance confirms that Ochs has created a major work as arresting and luring as its namesake’s canvasses.” ARTISTS Lisle Ellis, Barry Guy (bass); Chris Brown (piano, electronics); Marilyn Crispell (piano); William Winant (vibraphone, marimba, percussion); Bruce Ackley, Steve Adams, Larry Ochs, Jon Raskin (saxophones)
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