Larry Ochs

Larry Ochs (born May 3, 1949 in New York City) is an American jazz saxophonist, co-founder of the Rova Saxophone Quartet and Metalanguage Records.

Ochs studied trumpet briefly but concentrated on tenor and sopranino saxophones. He worked as a record producer and founded his own label, Metalanguage Records in 1978, in addition to operating the Twelve Stars studio in California. He co-founded the Rova Saxophone Quartet and worked in Glenn Spearman's Double Trio. A frequent recipient of commissions, he composed the music for the play Goya's L.A. by Leslie Scalapino in 1994 and for the film Letters Not About Love, which was named best documentary at SXSW in 1998. He has played in a new music trio called Room and the What We Live ensemble. He has recorded several albums as a leader. He formed the group Kihnoua in 2007 with vocalist Dohee Lee and Scott Amendola on drums and electronics, which released Unauthorized Caprices in 2010.

He was married to poet Lyn Hejinian until her death in 2024.

Discography Hall of Mirrors, Room (Music & Arts, 1992) The Secret Magritte (Black Saint, 1995) The Neon Truth (Black Saint, 2002) Fly Fly Fly (Intakt, 2004) with Joan Jeanrenaud, Miya Masaoka Out Trios Vol.5: Up from Under (Atavistic, 2007) The Mirror World (Metalanguage, 2007) Spiller Alley (RogueArt, 2008) Stone Shift (RogueArt, 2009) We All Feel the Same Way, Jones Jones (SoLyd, 2009) Unauthorized Caprices (Not Two, 2010)

With Glenn Spearman 1992 Mystery Project 1993 Smokehouse 1996 The Fields 1997 Blues for Falasha

With Fred Frith and Maybe Monday Digital Wildlife (Winter & Winter, 2002) Unsquare (Intakt, 2008)

With Dave Rempis and Darren Johnston Spectral (Aerophonic, 2014)