David S. Ware
Life and work
Davis S. Ware, the first baritone and alto sax played as a teenager, before he switched to tenor saxophone, studied from 1967 to 1969 at the Berklee College of Music. In Boston, he founded his own band, Apogee. He moved in 1973 to New York, where he worked first with Cecil Taylor and Andrew Cyrille and at the 1976 Wildflowers Loft Sessions. In the following years he also played with, inter alia, Juma Santos and Barry Harris. In the 1980s, he struck his 14 years as a taxi driver through, but had in the 1990s made a comeback and led since then his own quartet, with whom he recorded a series of albums for the label Silkheart, AUM Fidelity, Thirsty Ear and DIW. Permanent members were pianist Matthew Shipp and the bassist William Parker; also worked Marc Edwards, Whit Dickey, Susie Ibarra, and Guillermo E. Brown as a drummer in his formations.
2009, goods had to undergo a kidney transplant. This caused his health had suffered greatly, so that he died from complications of surgery on 18 October 2012 at the age of 62 years.
Awards
The authors Richard Cook and Brian Morton gave the album Godspelized of 1996 (rarely granted ) crown as the most outstanding work. The album Third Ear Recitation was included in the list Wire The Wire 's " 100 Records That Set the World on Fire (While No One Was Listening ) " 1998.
Trivia
Ware had a penchant for fast cars, he owned a 1990 Mustang GT. According to information from the list of his speeding ticket was long because of his driving behavior. Ware was a follower of Transcendental Meditation.
Auswahldiskografie
As a leader
- Passage to Music ( Silkheart, 1988)
- Great Bliss, vol. 1 ( Silkheart, 1990)
- Great Bliss, vol. 2 ( Silkheart, 1990)
- Flight of I ( DIW, 1991)
- Third Ear Recitation (DIW, 1993)
- Earthquation (DIW, 1994)
- Cryptology ( Homestead, 1994)
- Oblation and Blessings ( Silkheart, 1995)
- Dao ( Homestead, 1995)
- Godspelized (DIW, 1996)
- Wisdom of Uncertainty (AUM Fidelity, 1996)
- Live in the Netherlands ( Splasc (H ), 1997 )
- Go See the World ( Columbia, 1997)
- Surrendered (Columbia, 1999)
- Corridors & Parallels (AUM Fidelity, 2001)
- Freedom Suite (AUM Fidelity, 2002)
- Threads (CD Thirsty Ear, 2003)
- Live in the World ( 2005) with Matthew Shipp, William Parker, Susie Ibarra, Hamid Drake, Guillermo E. Brown
- Ballad goods ( CD Thirsty Ear, 2005)
- Renunciation (AUM Fidelity, 2007)
- Shakti (AUM Fidelity, 2009)
- Saturnian (AUM Fidelity, 2009) solo
- Onecept (AUM Fidelity, 2010) with William Parker and Warren Smith
- Planetary Unknown ( AUM Fidelity, 2011)
As a sideman
- Cecil Taylor Unit: Dark to Themselves ( Enja, 1976)
- Andrew Cyrille: Metamusician 's Stomp ( Black Saint, 1978) Special People ( Soul Note, 1980)
Lexical entries
- Richard Cook & Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, London, Penguin, 2001 ( 6th edition )