Jazz Articles about David S. Ware

About David S. Ware

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David S. Ware / Cooper-Moore / William Parker / Muhammad Ali: Planetary Unknown

Read "Planetary Unknown" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
May 31, 2011

Saxophone giant David S. Ware's comeback following a kidney transplant continues apace, this time within a new super group comprising some of the brighter magnitude bodies in the free jazz firmament. Ware's post-op output includes potent showings in Saturnian (Aum Fidelity, 2009) and Onecept (Aum Fidelity, 2010) but Planetary Unknown represents the strongest achievement yet. In large part, that is down to the egalitarian outlook of the stellar cast. Bassist William Parker remains a constant in Ware's universe, ...

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Album Review

David S. Ware: Onecept

by John Sharpe
November 10, 2010

Never one to be daunted, David S. Ware's first release after his kidney transplant was a solo live recording of three improvisations on three different instruments. Saturnian (Solo Saxophones, Volume One) (AUM Fidelity, 2010) garnered a strongly positive critical response. Now he has gone one stage further, following up with an even better studio date backed by the experienced pairing of longtime collaborator William Parker on bass and veteran drummer Warren Smith, both holdovers from Ware's quartet which made the ...

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Profile

David S. Ware: Planetary Musician

by Lyn Horton
September 26, 2010

On Sunday, June 27th, 2010, about a half-hour after its scheduled 9:30 pm appearance on the Abrons Art Center main performance stage in New York City, the David S. Ware Trio was setting up. The audience for this night of Vision Festival XV was its usual wandering and low-hum conversational self. William Parker stood by his upright bass way over on the left and, on the right, drummer Warren Smith settled down on a seat behind a larger than normal ...

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Album Review

David S. Ware: Onecept

by Nic Jones
September 7, 2010

In the press release for Onecept, David S. Ware makes much of the concept of spontaneous form. This is worth mentioning because the degree of continuity between notion and outcome is exceptional. Ware's work--and, indeed, his musical life, perhaps--is now at a stage where the reedman doesn't have to be combustible all the time, and it shows in this trio's collection of three equal voices. The implied democracy hasn't resulted in a quenching of the fire, but rather a group ...

Album Review

David S. Ware: Saturnian (Solo Saxophones, Volume 1)

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 17, 2010

Alla vigilia dei sessant'anni, compiuti lo scorso 7 novembre, e a dodici pressoché esatti dal precedente Live in the Netherlands (26 ottobre 1997 quello, 15 ottobre 2009 questo) edito dalla nostra Splasc(H), Ware si (ci) regala un nuovo live in totale solitudine (fra l'altro tirato in soli 1500 esemplari). E il regalo è quanto mai gradito, visto che dentro, quintessenziato, ci troviamo un po' tutto l'universo poetico, l'humus, del sassofonista di Plainfield: l'eloquio generoso, le volute ampie, il suono largo, ...

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Interview

David S. Ware: Gravitation

by Martin Longley
June 10, 2010

It wasn't the kidney transplant that brought saxophonist David S. Ware very close to wheelchair confinement. Last September (2009), there were early signs of organ rejection, so he was placed on a course of steroids. These came with side effects that were more debilitating than last year's operation itself. Since then, Ware has been in a state of recuperation, although his definition of resting is nowhere near the same as that understood by most folks. Even in healthier ...

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Multiple Reviews

David S. Ware and Joe Rigby: Loft Jazz Soloists

by Clifford Allen
May 23, 2010

In the void left by the deaths of saxophonists John Coltrane and Albert Ayler, among the cheap rents in Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn offering space to artists and musicians, the presence of affordable loft spaces birthed an intersection of jazz scenes in the 1970s. The music itself favored a variety of approaches, mostly built on the work of free jazz predecessors and the influence of Midwestern spaciousness, brought by AACM and Black Artists Group players relocating to New York in ...