David S. Ware Quartet

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Wisdomsphere 00:00 Tools
The Stargazers 00:00 Tools
Inner Temple 00:00 Tools
Ganesh Sound 00:00 Tools
Wisdom Through Time 00:00 Tools
Eternal Faces of Brahm 00:00 Tools
Mikuro's Blues 00:00 Tools
Acclimation 00:00 Tools
Cadenza 00:00 Tools
Alignment 00:00 Tools
Antidromic 00:00 Tools
Utopic 00:00 Tools
Riff Unknown 00:00 Tools
Sunbows Rainsets Blue 00:00 Tools
Continuum 00:00 Tools
Introduction 00:00 Tools
Renunciation Suite I 00:00 Tools
Dao 00:00 Tools
Renunciation Suite II 00:00 Tools
Yesterdays 00:00 Tools
Ganesh Sound (reprise) 00:00 Tools
Saturnian 00:00 Tools
Autumn Leaves 00:00 Tools
Renunciation Suite III 00:00 Tools
Straight Track 00:00 Tools
Sound-A-Bye 00:00 Tools
Mother May You Rest In Bliss 00:00 Tools
Superimposed 00:00 Tools
Sentient Compassion 00:00 Tools
Solar Passage 00:00 Tools
Somewhere 00:00 Tools
Aquarian Sound 00:00 Tools
Spaces Embraces 00:00 Tools
Dinosauria 00:00 Tools
The Way We Were 00:00 Tools
Tenderly 00:00 Tools
Freedom Suite 3 00:00 Tools
untitled 00:00 Tools
Angel Eyes 00:00 Tools
Logistic 00:00 Tools
The Liberator 00:00 Tools
Mind Time 00:00 Tools
Panoramic 00:00 Tools
Freedom Suite 2 00:00 Tools
Jazz Fi-Sci 00:00 Tools
Bliss Theme 00:00 Tools
Corridors & Parallels 00:00 Tools
Forward Motion 00:00 Tools
Cryptology/Theme Stream 00:00 Tools
Angular 00:00 Tools
Freedom Suite 1 00:00 Tools
Direction:Pleiades 00:00 Tools
Theme of Ages 00:00 Tools
Oblations and Blessings 00:00 Tools
Manu's Ideal 00:00 Tools
Freedom Suite 4 00:00 Tools
Jazz Sci-Fi 00:00 Tools
Interdao 00:00 Tools
Tao Above Sky 00:00 Tools
Freedom Suite Movement 1 00:00 Tools
Motif Dao 00:00 Tools
Of Shambhala 00:00 Tools
Freedom Suite Movement 2 00:00 Tools
Interlude 00:00 Tools
Rhythm Dao 00:00 Tools
Lexicon 00:00 Tools
Saxelloscape One 00:00 Tools
Dao Forms 00:00 Tools
Sound Bound 00:00 Tools
Corridors And Parallels 00:00 Tools
I 00:00 Tools
Thirds 00:00 Tools
Dao Feel 00:00 Tools
Serpents And Visions 00:00 Tools
Lithuanian Whirl 00:00 Tools
One Two Three 00:00 Tools
Fire Within 00:00 Tools
Freedom Suite Movement 3 00:00 Tools
Co Co Cana 00:00 Tools
Emptiness 00:00 Tools
Elder's Path 00:00 Tools
Unknown Mansion 00:00 Tools
Saxelloscape Two 00:00 Tools
Primary Piece III 00:00 Tools
Stritchland 00:00 Tools
Low Strata 00:00 Tools
Godspellized 00:00 Tools
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Surrendered 00:00 Tools
Reign Of Peace 00:00 Tools
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Direction: Pleiades 00:00 Tools
[Untitled] 00:00 Tools
The Child Without-The Child Within 00:00 Tools
Surrenderd 00:00 Tools
Quadrahex 00:00 Tools
Estheticmetric 00:00 Tools
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Tender 00:00 Tools
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Stargazer 00:00 Tools
The Stargazes (Continues) 00:00 Tools
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Freedom Suite Part I 00:00 Tools
Rapturelodic 00:00 Tools
The Child Without - The Child Within 00:00 Tools
Cryptology / Theme Stream 00:00 Tools
Freedom Suite: Part One 00:00 Tools
Aquarian Sound - 1/4 00:00 Tools
freedom suite part ii 00:00 Tools
Renunciation Suite, Pt. 3 00:00 Tools
Renunciation Suite, Pt. 2 00:00 Tools
Freedom Suite:, Pt. 1 00:00 Tools
Freedom Suite:, Pt. 2 00:00 Tools
Freedom Suite Part IV 00:00 Tools
Freedom Suite Part III 00:00 Tools
Renunciation Suite, Pt. 1 00:00 Tools
Lockup '97 00:00 Tools
Freedom Suite: Part Four 00:00 Tools
Freedom Suite:, Pt. 3 00:00 Tools
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Freedom Suite: Part Two 00:00 Tools
Freedom Suite: Part Three 00:00 Tools
Freedom Suite Part One 00:00 Tools
Freedom Suite Part Four 00:00 Tools
Freedom Suite Part Three 00:00 Tools
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Manu's Ideal (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Freedom Suite, Movement 1 00:00 Tools
In This Love 00:00 Tools
Third Ear Recitation 00:00 Tools
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David S. Ware was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, on November 7, 1949. His early love of music was nurtured by some dedicated teachers at the Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School. He began his saxophone career on alto, and then switched to baritone, before finally settling on the tenor. "I had played in all the school bands, the whole way through junior high and high school : marching band, concert band, dance band and orchestras." As a teen David was an ardent admirer of Sonny Rollins and struck up a relationship with the elder tenor player after seeing him countless times in the mid-'60s at the Five Spot and the Village Vanguard. The two practiced together intermittently in the '70s in Rollins' Brooklyn apartment; it was Rollins who taught young Ware the art of circular breathing in 1966. By the late-'60s, David was attending music school in Boston and playing on the local scene with Stanton Davis, Cedric Lawson, Art LandeWhile in Boston, David met drummer Marc Edwards and pianist Gene Ashton (Cooper-Moore), and together they formed a group called Apogee. David moved to New York in 1973 and became a member of the Cecil Taylor Unit in a group that included Marc Edwards, trumpeter Raphe Malik, and alto saxophonist Jimmy Lyons. He performed with Taylor’s legendary Carnegie Hall large ensemble, toured with the Cecil Taylor Unit throughout Europe, the U.S. and Canada, and recorded Dark To Themselves (Enja). Beaver Harris replaced Edwards on drums, which led to David joining Harris' 360 Degree Music Experience ensemble. It was also at this time that David joined Andrew Cyrille's group Maono. By 1981 he had recorded three albums with Maono, it was also the year that David's first album Birth of a Being was released, a trio date with Marc Edwards and Gene Ashton, for Hat Hut. In the early ‘80s, he collaborated with drummer Milford Graves. His trio toured Europe in 1985 with bassist Peter Kowald and either drummer Louis Moholo or Thurman Barker. Later, David served in trumpeter Ahmed Abdullah's Solomonic Quintet which recorded one self titled album on Silkheart. In 1988 David formed a trio with Marc Edwards and William Parker and recorded Passage To Music for Silkheart. In 1989, he put out the word that he was looking for a pianist. William Parker and Reggie Workman both recommended Matthew Shipp. In 1989, the David S. Ware Quartet was born. From that time to 2007 the only personnel changes have been the drummers: Whit Dickey replaced Marc Edwards in 1992, followed by Susie Ibarra in 1996, and Guillermo E. Brown in 1999. "I'm seeing more and more the value of keeping a group together," says Ware. "Rather than freelance with different bands, you make the group an institution. Looking at jazz over the decades, I feel this is how the music grows the most. Musicians get a chance to be thorough, to know the material and be involved ». He also refused to do sideman gigs. "Working with other musicians doesn't work for me. Philosophically, I find it difficult to be under someone else's umbrella." The '90s saw the full-on actualization of this group and the recognition of David S. Ware as a true saxophone collossus. A series of ground-breaking albums by the David S. Ware Quartet were released: Great Bliss Vols. 1 & 2 on Silkheart; Flight of i, Third Ear Recitation, Earthquation, and Godspelized on the Japanese label DIW; finally, Cryptology, DAO, and Wisdom of Uncertainty on the American labels, Homestead and AUM Fidelity. In 1997, David was signed to the Columbia Jazz label by Branford Marsalis [...] Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.