Jazz Articles about David S. Ware

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

by Chris May
April 10, 2010

Saturnian celebrates saxophonist David S. Ware's return to health--and public performance--after near fatal kidney failure. Released in a limited edition, and subtitled Solo Saxophones Volume 1, it was recorded live at the Abrons Arts Center, NYC in October 2009, towards the end of a year in which Ware's life had hung in the balance and many in the jazz world had feared the worst. He was saved by the widow of a fellow musician and Ware fan, kidney donor Laura ...

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

by Lyn Horton
March 20, 2010

In a 2003 interview, reed player David S. Ware talked about “a revelation which changed his musical life." It occurred while performing in Boston, where he suddenly could “witness" himself playing the music. When that happened, he cultivated the epiphany as meaning that he, alone, is the channel for the music which comes out of his horn. Nothing could be embodied more clearly than in Saturnian, a solo release recorded live at the Abrons Art Center in New York City ...

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

by John Sharpe
March 14, 2010

There is always a tinge of soul-baring in solo performance on a single line instrument like the saxophone, when stripped of the musical support customarily handled by an ensemble. David S. Ware's story only accentuates that feeling. Rushed into print as a limited edition release of 1500, Saturnian documents Ware's first public showing since his kidney transplant, at an October 2009 solo appearance. Though more often sighted at the helm of a quartet, with a restyled foursome onboard for his ...

David S. Ware: Saturnian (Solo Saxophones Volume One)

by Nic Jones
March 3, 2010

This entirely solo music was captured for posterity at an AUM Fidelity label showcase in October, 2009; Ware's first live performance after a kidney transplant. Marking a dynamic return, it maps out yet another strand of Ware's artistry just as Threads (Thirsty Ear, 2003) did. Ware may be best known for his quartet work, it's clear that this is but one facet of his overarching vision.

He expands his instrumental arsenal here to take in the saxello and the stritch, ...

David S. Ware Quartet: Live in Vilnius

by Clifford Allen
October 19, 2009

David S. Ware Live in Vilnius No Business 2009

The year 2009 could be a rather big year for tenor saxophonist and improvising composer David S. Ware, and that's saying a lot. After all, Ware has long been one of the most celebrated figures in free jazz, owing not only to his work with artists like pianist Cecil Taylor and percussionists Andrew Cyrille and Beaver Harris, but also his longstanding quartet, which was founded ...

David S. Ware: Shakti

by Russ Musto
October 15, 2009

David S. Ware's Shakti, his first release since the dissolution of his longstanding quartet, is an outstanding addition to the saxophonist's already extraordinary discography. Ware is reunited with bassist William Parker (a member of the earlier quartet, who goes back to Ware's very first recordings as a leader), with veteran Warren Smith seated in the drum chair formerly occupied by Susie lbarra, Marc Edwards, Whit Dickey and Guillermo E. Brown and, perhaps most notably, idiosyncratic guitarist Joe Morris taking on ...

David S. Ware: Shakti

by AAJ Italy Staff
August 10, 2009

Da un CD intitolato Shakti, e con un cobra disegnato in copertina, sarebbe lecito aspettarsi come minimo una musica ispirata alla tradizione karnatika o qualcosa sul modello di John McLaughlin anni Settanta, in realtà il riferimento orientale più immediato che potrete ipotizzare subito dopo l'ascolto è quello che va alle scale modali e all'assenza del centro tonale che mise in diretto contatto John Coltrane con la musica e la cultura indiana. In effetti c'è molto Coltrane (ma a ben ascoltare ...