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David S. Ware: Saturnian (Solo Saxophones, Volume 1)
by AAJ Italy Staff
Alla vigilia dei sessant'anni, compiuti lo scorso 7 novembre, e a dodici pressoché esatti dal precedente Live in the Netherlands (26 ottobre 1997 quello, 15 ottobre 2009 questo) edito dalla nostra Splasc(H), Ware si (ci) regala un nuovo live in totale solitudine (fra l'altro tirato in soli 1500 esemplari). E il regalo è quanto mai gradito, ...
Saxophonist David S. Ware Interviewed at AAJ
It wasn't the kidney transplant that brought saxophonist David S. Ware very close to wheelchair confinement. Last September (2009), there were early signs of organ rejection, so he was placed on a course of steroids. These came with side effects that were more debilitating than last year's operation itself. Since then, Ware has been in a ...
David S. Ware: Gravitation
by Martin Longley
It wasn't the kidney transplant that brought saxophonist David S. Ware very close to wheelchair confinement. Last September (2009), there were early signs of organ rejection, so he was placed on a course of steroids. These came with side effects that were more debilitating than last year's operation itself. Since then, Ware has been in a ...
Silent Solos: Improvisers Speak
by Jakob Baekgaard
Silent Solos: Improvisers Speak Soft cover; 174 pages ISBN: 978-3-00-030557-3 Buddy's Knife 2010 Improvisation, at its best, is about instinct. At its worst, it's an intellectual exercise, cold and theoretical, without an emotional perspective. Fortunately, the beautifully produced Silent Solos: Improvisers Speak avoids the pitfalls of ...
David S. Ware and Joe Rigby: Loft Jazz Soloists
by Clifford Allen
In the void left by the deaths of saxophonists John Coltrane and Albert Ayler, among the cheap rents in Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn offering space to artists and musicians, the presence of affordable loft spaces birthed an intersection of jazz scenes in the 1970s. The music itself favored a variety of approaches, mostly built on the ...
Digitial Primitives in Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem
by Eyal Hareuveni
Digital Primitives Bezalel Academy Jerusalem, Israel March 25, 2010 There are performances that remind you what are the basic and most important essences of making and listening to music--the sheer and innocent joy of playfulness, the healing power of such an emotional communication, the communal feeling of participating ...
David S. Ware: Saturnian (Solo Saxophones, Volume One)
by Chris May
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 ...
William Parker: At Somewhere There
by Mark Corroto
Bassist William Parker's music reveals the ever presence of two things: energy and color. Sure, a band's timekeeper is also its dynamo, but Parker's music has always radiated more than pulse. His playing gives off a spiritual vibration that translates easily into color fields. He is a human mood ring. This live recording, from July 2008 ...
David S. Ware: Saturnian (Solo Saxophones, Volume One)
by Lyn Horton
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 ...
Jazz Saxophonist David S. Ware is Live -- And Very Much Alive -- In Brooklyn
By Tad Hendrickson Stories about jazz musicians with health problems too often end sadly, so it was more than a little uplifting to see that saxophonist David S. Ware's did not. Ware had been in declining health in recent years because kidney dialysis was no longer as effective as it needed to be. Finally, in May ...
