Thursday 28 August, 2008

David S Ware Quartet - Freedom Suite (2002)


The continued implication that free jazz is a fraud perpetrated by history-deficient no-talents gets another smackdown thanks to David Ware. Well known for his blistering improvisations, Ware daringly decides to take on Sonny Rollins’ legendary “Freedom Suite” as a basis for his quartet to shine. Ware is ably assisted by Matthew Shipp and William Parker — two players with a history of paint-peeling freedom — on piano and bass, as well as rock-solid drummer Guillermo E. Brown, whose own solo work veers more toward the funk spot. Were this group to be, in fact, history-deficient no-talents, it’s doubtless that this CD would have wound up being a skronky mess. And though Ware does take frequent flights of fancy (the first within two bars of the opening), his solos — and those of the rest of the quartet — are all quite restrained and do much justice to the original work. Though the group obviously recognizes “Freedom Suite” for the political statement Rollins intended it to be, the work is less a clarion call than it is a celebration.
Jason Ferguson, Orlando Weekly 9/1/2003




David S. Ware - tenor sax
Matthew Shipp - piano
William Parker - bass
Guillermo E. Brown - drums

Produced by David S. Ware and Steven Joerg
Recorded by Jim Anderson on July 13, 2002 at Systems Two Studio, Brooklyn.
Design by Ming@409 from photographs by Edvard Vlanders.


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12 comments:

Anonymous said...

An excellent rendition, of course, as one would expect from such a brilliant quartet. The AUM catalogue just keeps on surprising me.
Thank you for this.

Anonymous said...

thanks for this by the great s. ware, a very under recognized musician, deserving wider appreciation and listening by all those lovers of real music

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soyo said...

this quartet is one of my favorites. Thanks! I invite them to my blog Jazz en la Web:
http://jazzparadescargar.blogspot.com/
Greetings.

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