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David S. Ware 
David S. Ware photo by Corentin LamyBackground information Birth name David Spencer Ware Born November 7, 1949
Plainfield, New Jersey
United StatesGenres Jazz, Free jazz Occupations Musician, Bandleader Instruments Saxophone Labels Silkheart, DIW, Homestead, AUM Fidelity, Columbia, Thirsty Ear Associated acts Cecil Taylor, Andrew Cyrille Website davidsware.com David Spencer Ware (born November 7, 1949 in Plainfield, New Jersey), is an American jazz saxophonist.[1]
Ware grew up in Scotch Plains, New Jersey and graduated from Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School. He attended the Berklee College of Music and worked in New York City as a cab driver for 14 years, later returning to Scotch Plains to live. Suffering from kidney disease at the age of 60, ware was able to undergo a successful kidney transplantation, after receiving a kidney donated in response to an email message sent out to nearly 1,000 of Ware's fans.[2][3]
He has recorded with Andrew Cyrille and Cecil Taylor, and has led his own quartet since the early 1990s. Pianist Matthew Shipp and double bassist William Parker have been in Ware's quartet steadily; drummers have changed: following Marc Edwards, Whit Dickey, and Susie Ibarra, Guillermo E. Brown is now the drummer of the David S. Ware Quartet.
Ware first appeared on a privately-produced LP recorded in Boston in 1971 by Abdul Hannah, an alto saxophonist from Boston.
Contents
Discography
As leader
- Third World Awareness (Abdul Hannah, 1971)
- 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)
- Oblations 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)
- The David S Ware Quartet Live in the World (Thirsty Ear, 1998/2003)
- Threads (CD Thirsty Ear, 2003)
- BalladWare (CD Thirsty Ear, 2005)
- Renunciation (AUM Fidelity, 2007)
- Shakti (Aum Fidelity, 2008) with Joe Morris g, William Parker b, Warren Smith dr
- David S Ware Quartet Live in Vilnius (2 LP, NO BUSINESS 2008)
- Saturnian (solo saxophones volume 1) (Aum Fidelity, 2009)
- Onecept (Aum Fidelity, 2010) with William Parker b, Warren Smith dr
As sideman
With Andrew Cyrille
- Metamusicians' Stomp (Black Saint, 1978)
- Special People (Soul Note, 1980)
References
- ^ Allmusic
- ^ Ware, David S. "David S. Ware", JazzTimes, June 2003. Accessed August 9, 2011. "'Come on girls, we're going to put you in the magazine,' says David S. Ware, calling Bibi and Mikuro into the music room of his three-story house in Scotch Plains, N.J.... Ware drove taxis for 14 years in New York City, where he relocated in 1973 after growing up in Scotch Plains and later attending Boston's Berklee College of Music."
- ^ La Gorce, Tammy. "A Gift of Life and Music: Musician David S. Ware, of Scotch Plains, recovered from a kidney transplant...with a little help from his fans.", New Jersey Monthly, December 14, 2009. Accessed August 9, 2011. "David S. Ware, 60, a tenor saxophonist from Scotch Plains, got more than support. He got a new kidney.... Having regained his health, Ware, a graduate of Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School, is planning to release an experimental jazz album this spring."
External links
Categories:- Jazz saxophonists
- Avant-garde jazz musicians
- Berklee College of Music alumni
- 1949 births
- Living people
- African American musicians
- Columbia Records artists
- DIW Records artists
- People from Plainfield, New Jersey
- People from Scotch Plains, New Jersey
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