Bruce Ackley

Born in 1948 in Detroit, MI, saxophonist Bruce Ackley has recorded with a variety of creative musical experimenters such as <a href="spotify:artist:3JgykWJiK9U8B4gfoWdDMb">Henry Kaiser</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:3VWsCRWk23WloHRP9ilRsw">Eugene Chadbourne</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:3gkJ7lXtLpE4KauFHpk2vK">John Zorn</a>. Ackley first studied architecture and fine arts (1966-1969) before changing his focus to music. He began playing, and formed his first trio by the end of 1970. Ackley then moved to San Francisco, where he was a jazz and new music disc jockey on community radio (KPOO) from 1973-1975. Also around this time, he helped begin an alternative art space called the Blue Dolphin, and became active in an improvising wind trio, Sound Clinic. He is a founding member of <a href="spotify:artist:2zNfkima1KwM1wzTCtKEdu">Rova</a>, a collectively improvising saxophone quartet that has pushed boundaries since its 1977 inception. <a href="spotify:artist:2zNfkima1KwM1wzTCtKEdu">Rova</a> has released over 20 of their own albums and appeared on many others. Ackley released his first album as a leader with <a href="spotify:artist:0sQXx1Ji0yvldYg6cuEAOW">Joey Baron</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:5bQEjfrwsAPa0d9PaPkXvn">Greg Cohen</a> on <a href="spotify:artist:3gkJ7lXtLpE4KauFHpk2vK">Zorn</a>'s Avant label in 1998. By the close of the '90s, Ackley was still active in <a href="spotify:artist:2zNfkima1KwM1wzTCtKEdu">Rova</a> and led the jazz trio Actual Size. ~ Joslyn Layne, Rovi