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Avg. Customer Rating:  (based on 14 reviews)
Sales Rank: 82010
Category: Music
Artist: David S. Ware
Publisher: Sony
Studio: Sony
Manufacturer: Sony
Label: Sony
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 5 x 0.3
UPC: 074646381625
EAN: 0074646381625
ASIN: B00004TB82
Release Date: May 23, 2000
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No penguin suits June 1, 2001
These days mainstream jazzmen on big labels still wear buttoned down attire while their avant garde brethren have no suits :just shades, dashikis and jeans, but sartorial issues aside,David S. Ware quartet is a strong group with a great sound. William Parker and Guillermo Brown slap around the rhythm and offer Ware a solid foundation for his interplanetary sojourns on the T-sax. Matt Shipp is a genius who varies up the harmonic material and he plays free piano but never sounds Cecil-ian. This is good stuff without the dress code.
No penguin suits June 1, 2001
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
These days mainstream jazzmen on big labels still wear buttoned down attire while their avant garde brethren have no suits :just shades, dashikis and jeans, but sartorial issues aside,the David S. Ware quartet is a strong group with a great sound. William Parker and Guillermo Brown slap around the rhythm and offer Ware a solid foundation for his interplanetary sojourns on the T-sax. Matt Shipp is a genius who varies up the harmonic material and he plays free piano but never sounds Cecil-ian. This is good stuff without the dress code.
 Ware's Best! December 20, 2000
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I reviewed this CD the day after its release because I could stop listening to it. Now, 7 months later I find I still play it quite alot. The songs have plenty of variety in tempo and tone. I find my favorite recordings by Ware tend to be a little more subtle than his others (my favorites besides this one are Flight of i and Wisdom of Uncertainty). For me, Dao and Go See the World suffer from a sameness in song structure and even in the recording sound, making these less dynamic. Please note that many Ware fans still consider Dao as his masterpiece so this is a personal opinion. Unlike Wail's review, having heard both Parker and Shipp's latest recordings on Thirsty Ear, I do beleive these guys might be showing a shift in their methods. Since I find all of these guys new work to be among their best, this is in no way a compromise. But I am only guessing here, only time will tell.
 Showing critics that "free players" can play normal music December 17, 2000
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
While it has been said that this cd marks Ware's move to "mainstream jazz" I must disagree to a certain extent. I think 5 years from now this cd will be seen as "the cd where the David S. Ware Quartet showed music critics that Free Jazzers can indeed play changes and traditional melodies". I do not however think that this cd points to the direction that the quartets future cd's will go. I think this "straight ahead", "in the pocket" playing will be a one-off thing, with subsequent cds once again dwelling in the realm of cathartic spiritualizations.
This cd has some great moments but the things that draw me back to entire Ware Quartet cds over and over again are not in abundance on this cd. Why? Because on this cd they do indeed play rather straight-ahead jazz. If I had to guess, I would say that Matthew Shipp had less fun and was more unchallenged on this cd than on any other cd that I have heard. Most all of the things that make Shipp stand head-and-shoulders above all other pianists today do not happen very often on this cd. Quite honestly, Shipp is usually every other jazz pianist on this cd. In a sense, it is somewhat interesting to hear Shipp play this way, simply because it is such a departure to hear him play "normally", but his natural style is what makes him the creative and emotionally expressive force of nature that he is. Most any pianist in jazz right now could have filled the role Shipp plays on this cd, and that is certainly not the case when he is really creating. Although yes, the beautiful Shipp we all know and love does show his face a few times on this cd.
I also gave another Ware Quartet cd, GO SEE THE WORLD, 3 stars back when I reviewed it. At that time I still had never fallen totally in love with Ware himself. I hadn't fully accepted his own style and tone yet, although I loved the compositions and the contributions of the other band members. Now I have fully embraced Ware, he plays brilliantly on GO SEE THE WORLD, and on this cd as well (though in a more traditional sense), but on this cd the rest of the band is forced to play too traditional of a role for my tastes. This is still a "good" cd, hence it's 3 stars, but GO SEE THE WORLD should have received 4 stars, as it is a much more fullfilling and creative cd than is this one.
David S. Ware's Best Yet June 23, 2000
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
David Ware is a phenomenal saxophonist and this is an awesome CD, easily among the most exciting jazz around right now. Ware has toned down his intense multiphonic attack since Earthquation but his restraint only adds to the emotional impact of this disk. He starts most tunes with simple song-like melodies and builds performances of great complexity and beauty out of these. Matthew Shipp is also excellent on this disk.
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