David S. Ware / Planetary Unknown

David S. Ware / Planetary Unknown: Live at Jazzfestival Saalfelden 2011

by John Sharpe
August 25, 2012

For its second release, cooperative super group Planetary Unknown offers three collectively birthed cuts recorded live at the Austrian Saalfelden Jazz Festival in 2011. Even though given equal billing, saxophonist David S. Ware gets the biggest font size metaphorically in the concert introduction and features most prominently in the mix. In fact, it is Ware who provides most of the narrative thrust in the quartet's enthralling arc of creativity.Ware has moved away from the compositions that were the ...

David S. Ware - Planetary Unknown (Aum Fidelity, 2011)

Source: Music and More by Tim Niland
June 18, 2011

There are few musicians quite as dedicated to their craft as saxophonist David S. Ware. Coming up on the loft scene, apprenticing with Cecil Taylor, driving a cab during the lean years, and surviving a kidney transplant, all of the ups and downs of his life go into the passion of his music.

On this album, he is aided by an all-star group of free-jazz luminaries: William Parker on bass, Cooper-Moore on piano and former Albert Ayler sideman and brother ...
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