Jazz Articles about David S. Ware

David S. Ware String Ensemble: Threads

by Rex Butters
October 20, 2003

After successfully reinterpreting an untouchable Sonny Rollins classic and blasting into the electronic stratosphere with Corridors and Parallels, tenor sax titan David S. Ware debuts on Thirsty Ear with a string ensemble. His famous quartet returns with William Parker and Guillermo E. Brown as rhythm runners and Matthew Shipp as a sort of one-man string section via a Korg Triton Pro X. Augmenting Shipp in this department are Mat Maneri on viola and Daniel Bernard Roumain on violin. ...

David S. Ware Quartet: Freedom Suite

by AAJ Staff
October 1, 2002

Tenor saxophonist David S. Ware is something of a prophet. That may sound like a melodramatic exaggeration, but it's true. Ware belongs in a long tradition of African American musical testimony which finds its roots in the early days of slavery and which has manifested itself in subsequent forms of revelation including the blues and gospel. During the development of jazz, its identity evolved through the music of John Coltrane (A Love Supreme) and Albert Ayler (Spiritual Unity). Ware draws ...

David S. Ware: Live In The Netherlands

by Michael A. Parker
December 1, 2001

It really suffices to simply say that this is David S. Ware's first solo recording. It's important. And it's just what you would expect: just take his quartet and leave out the other three players; Ware is essentially always soloing when he plays, no matter who he's with. Actually, because I've always found the interactions between Ware and Shipp, et al to be fairly oblique, I really enjoy having this opportunity to deal with his world one-on-one. Ware's music is ...

David S. Ware: Live In The Netherlands

by AAJ Staff
June 1, 2001

It's not every day you get a chance to hear tenor saxophonist David S. Ware perform solo. His devotion to his legendary working quartet has resulted in some of the highest points in the recorded history of modern jazz. But Live In The Netherlands, recorded in October of '97, presents Ware's first solo work on disc. And it's a revealing document.

Ware's quartet, in its various reincarnations, has been a massive power-sharing collective of individual players who each ...

David S. Ware: Surrendered

by Glenn Astarita
June 1, 2000

We’re delighted that saxophonist David S. Ware continues to record for “Columbia Records” as modern jazz stylists of Ware’s magnitude do need all the exposure they can muster, yet we might also be cautiously optimistic about his future with the label which is of course, totally sales driven! With Surrendered, the saxophonist follows up his rather explosive and slightly raucous “Columbia” debut titled, Go See The World !

Here, Ware continues to work with his esteemed associates, - pianist Matthew ...

David S. Ware: Go See The World

by Jim Santella
February 1, 1999

From John Coltrane’s late period of meditations and high-energy improvisation, David S. Ware, 49, has a manner that can either irritate or impress the listener because of his expressed passion and intensity. The tenor saxophonist was influenced by Coltrane, studied with Sonny Rollins, attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, worked with Cecil Taylor and later, Andrew Cyrille. With over a dozen recordings as leader over the past ten years, Ware still remains unpredictable and unique.

Searing with a Coltrane ...

David S. Ware: Go See The World

by Glenn Astarita
December 1, 1998

“Go See The World” represents tenor saxophonist David S Ware’s initial and much anticipated release for Columbia Records. Branford Marsalis’ recent appointment as creative consultant for the label’s jazz division has paved the way for Ware’s induction to Columbia Records. Historically, tenure at Columbia for non-mainstream jazz musicians of similar backgrounds namely Henry Threadgill and David Murray was for the most part short-lived. If Columbia Records is serious and not overtly concerned with substantial profits and quick return than this ...