Two weeks from tonight, on Monday, October 4th, eminent saxophonist David S. Ware will celebrate his new release, Onecept (AUM Fidelity), with a two-set performance at the Blue Note in New York.
As on the record, which marks his 50th anniversary as a saxophonist, Ware (saxello, stritch and tenor saxophone) will be joined by William Parker (bass) and Warren Smith (drums and percussion) to perform a completely improvised program of music.
This will be the trio's second live performance, following its debut this past summer at Vision Festival XV.
“We want spontaneous forms," Ware explains in the liner notes for Onecept. “If you know the music well enough the forms can be spontaneous, they don't have to be pre-planned. There's melody, there's harmony, there's rhythm. You can never get beyond those; you don't want to get beyond those. But, by letting them be spontaneous, it gives the forms a greater opportunity to be new. That way you get beyond the known; you're dealing with the pure intuitive qualities of making music."
“These three musicians have such mastery of the idiom in which they're working that they're able to create nine compelling pieces entirely in the moment," explains BBC reviewer Daniel Spicer, “coming together as one impressively coherent statement. Through it all, Ware's playing is astonishing, pushing the limits of brain, fingers and equipment, ideas rushing out in a stream of furious, liquid invention, with an almost superhuman precision. But there's never any sense that this is empty technique or showmanship. It's the sound of an artist purposefully striving to be a better human."
As on the record, which marks his 50th anniversary as a saxophonist, Ware (saxello, stritch and tenor saxophone) will be joined by William Parker (bass) and Warren Smith (drums and percussion) to perform a completely improvised program of music.
This will be the trio's second live performance, following its debut this past summer at Vision Festival XV.
“We want spontaneous forms," Ware explains in the liner notes for Onecept. “If you know the music well enough the forms can be spontaneous, they don't have to be pre-planned. There's melody, there's harmony, there's rhythm. You can never get beyond those; you don't want to get beyond those. But, by letting them be spontaneous, it gives the forms a greater opportunity to be new. That way you get beyond the known; you're dealing with the pure intuitive qualities of making music."
“These three musicians have such mastery of the idiom in which they're working that they're able to create nine compelling pieces entirely in the moment," explains BBC reviewer Daniel Spicer, “coming together as one impressively coherent statement. Through it all, Ware's playing is astonishing, pushing the limits of brain, fingers and equipment, ideas rushing out in a stream of furious, liquid invention, with an almost superhuman precision. But there's never any sense that this is empty technique or showmanship. It's the sound of an artist purposefully striving to be a better human."
