Passage to Music

Passage to Music
Studio album by David S. Ware
Released	1989
Recorded	April 4 & 5, 1988
Studio	A&R Recording, New York
Genre	Jazz
Length	48:23 (LP) 69:06 (CD)
Label	Silkheart
Producer	David S. Ware
David S. Ware chronology
Birth of a Being (1979) Passage to Music (1989) Great Bliss, Vol. 1 (1991)

Passage to Music is an album by American jazz saxophonist David S. Ware, recorded in 1988 and released on the Swedish Silkheart label. Besides the tenor sax, Ware plays the saxello, a variant of the soprano sax played by English jazz musician Elton Dean, and the stritch, a straight alto sax associated with multi-instrumentalist Rahsaan Roland Kirk. The CD edition includes two bonus tracks. ^[1]

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz	[3]

In his review for AllMusic, Scott Yanow states "David Ware's searching improvisations reward repeated listenings by open-eared listeners." ^[2] The Penguin Guide to Jazz states "Passage To Music has something of Ayler's and Sander's Afro-mysticism and constitutes something of a personal initiation". ^[3]

Track listing

All compositions by David S. Ware

1. "An Ancient Formula" - 6:00
2. "Ancient Visitors" - 7:30
3. "Passage To Music"- 10:46
4. "African Secrets" - 10:47
5. "The Elders Path" - 13:20
6. "Phonetic Hymn" - 9:00
7. "Mystery" - 11:43

6 & 7 does not appear on original LP

Personnel

• David S. Ware - tenor sax, saxello, stritch
• William Parker - bass
• Marc Edwards - drums

References

1. Passage to Music at Silkheart Records
2. Yanow, Scott. David Ware – Passage to Music: Review at AllMusic . Retrieved February 3, 2014.
3. Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2002). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (6th ed.). London: Penguin. p. 1516. ISBN   0-14-051521-6.