Jazz Articles about Anthony Ware

About Anthony Ware

Rising Stars

Introducing Saxophonist Anthony Ware

by Sanford Josephson
January 3, 2023

This article previously appeared in Jersey Jazz Magazine. When Anthony Ware was a fourth grader at the Hillcrest Elementary School in Somerset, NJ, he had the opportunity to select a musical instrument to learn. “We had our pick of instruments," he recalled. “I had always seen this saxophone in my father's closet, and I'd heard stories--'Your father played saxophone.' I fell in love with it after we began." When he was in the eighth grade, a ...

Album Review

The Radam Schwartz Organ Big Band: Message from Groove and GW

Read "Message from Groove and GW" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
September 25, 2020

Liner notes notwithstanding, the alliance of a big band and organ is hardly unique—Jimmy Smith, Richard Groove" Holmes and Joey DeFrancesco are organ maestros who have been there and done that; even the great Oscar Peterson once dipped his toes into that water. Having said that, organist Radam Schwartz and his power-laden New Jersey-based ensemble do the concept proud on Message from Groove and GW, burning on all cylinders and swinging as hard and as often as any band has ...