Passage to Music

Last updated
Passage to Music
Passage to Music.jpg
Studio album by
Released1989
RecordedApril 4 & 5, 1988
StudioA&R Recording, New York
Genre Jazz
Length48:23 (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 tenor sax Ware plays saxello, a variant of the soprano sax played by English jazz musician Elton Dean, and stritch, a straight alto sax associated with multi-instrumentalist Rahsaan Roland Kirk. The CD edition adds two bonus tracks. [1]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [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

Related Research Articles

<i>One Fell Swoop</i> 1987 studio album by Steve Lacy Quartet featuring Charles Tyler

One Fell Swoop is an album by saxophonist Steve Lacy's Quartet featuring Charles Tyler which was recorded in Paris in 1986 and released on the Swedish Silkheart label.

<i>Thelonious Himself</i> 1957 studio album by Thelonious Monk

Thelonious Himself is a studio album by Thelonious Monk released in 1957 by Riverside Records. It was Monk's fourth album for the label. The album features Monk playing solo piano, except for the final track, "Monk's Mood", which features John Coltrane on tenor saxophone and Wilbur Ware on bass. It was Monk's second solo piano studio album, and it was the first made by an American label and distributed in the United States.

<i>Great Bliss, Vol. 1</i> 1991 studio album by David S. Ware

Great Bliss, Vol. 1 is an album by American jazz saxophonist David S. Ware recorded in 1990 and released on the Swedish Silkheart label. Great Bliss was conceived as a two-installment project and marks the debut of the David S. Ware Quartet, one of the most highly acclaimed musical groups of the decade.

<i>Great Bliss, Vol. 2</i> 1991 studio album by David S. Ware

Great Bliss, Vol. 2 is an album by American jazz saxophonist David S. Ware, the second installment of a two-albums project recorded in 1990 and released on the Swedish Silkheart label. As in the companion Great Bliss, Vol. 1, besides tenor sax Ware plays saxello, stritch and flute.

<i>Other Dimensions in Music</i> (album) 1990 studio album by Other Dimensions in Music

Other Dimensions in Music is the self-titled debut album by American free jazz collective quartet Other Dimensions in Music, composed of trumpeter Roy Campbell, multi-instrumentalist Daniel Carter, bassist William Parker and drummer Rashid Bakr. It was recorded in studio in 1989 and released on the Swedish Silkheart label. In the liner notes of the album, Campbell claims "We represent the sum total of the musical masters who played before us and presently". Meanwhile, Parker says that "the music on this album is defined by the strictest rules of beauty, each sound is ordered and cured with the energy of ancient spirits. The same spirits that guided John Coltrane, Louis Armstrong and Bud Powell." The CD edition adds two bonus tracks.

<i>Flight of I</i> 1992 studio album by David S. Ware

Flight of I is an album by American jazz saxophonist David S. Ware recorded in 1991 and released by the Japanese DIW label and through a temporary licensing arrangement in the United States by Columbia Records. This is the last recording of the David S. Ware Quartet's original lineup with drummer Marc Edwards, who would be replaced by Whit Dickey. Unlike previous albums, Ware only plays tenor sax and tackles two of his favorite standards, Harry Warren's "There Will Never Be Another You" and Jerome Kern's "Yesterdays", and the ballad "Sad Eyes", composed by free jazz saxophonist Arthur Jones.

<i>Cryptology</i> (album) 1995 studio album by David S. Ware

Cryptology is an album by jazz saxophonist David S. Ware, recorded in 1994 and released by Homestead Records.

<i>Oblations and Blessings</i> 1996 studio album by David S. Ware

Oblations and Blessings is an album by jazz saxophonist David S. Ware, recorded in 1995 and released on the Silkheart label. It features the David S. Ware Quartet with pianist Matthew Shipp, bassist William Parker and drummer Whit Dickey playing all original Ware compositions.

<i>Breath Rhyme</i> 1990 studio album by Rob Brown

Breath Rhyme is an album by American jazz saxophonist Rob Brown recorded in 1989 and released on the Swedish Silkheart label.

<i>Onecept</i> 2010 studio album by David S. Ware

Onecept is an album by saxophonist David S. Ware which was recorded in 2009 and released on the AUM Fidelity label.

<i>Saturnian</i> (album) 2010 live album by David S. Ware

Saturnian is a live solo album by saxophonist David S. Ware, who plays the saxello, stritch and tenor saxophone which was recorded in 2009 and released on the AUM Fidelity label.

<i>Hey Donald</i> 1995 studio album by Roscoe Mitchell

Hey Donald is an album by the American jazz saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell, recorded in 1994 and released on Delmark. It was the first recording by a quartet featuring pianist Jodie Christian, bassist Malachi Favors and drummer Albert "Tootie" Heath. The album is dedicated to Earth Wind & Fire saxophonist Donald Myrick.

<i>South Side Street Songs</i> 1994 studio album by Ernest Dawkins

South Side Street Songs is an album by American jazz saxophonist Ernest Dawkins' New Horizons Ensemble, which was recorded in 1993 and released on the Swedish Silkheart label. "Maghostut" is dedicated to bassist Malachi Favors, who replaced Ben Israel on New Horizons' first European tour in 1986, and also to the Art Ensemble of Chicago. "El Hajj" is for El Hajj Malik El Shabazz.

<i>Chicago Now Vol. 1</i> 1995 studio album by Ernest Dawkins

Chicago Now Vol. 1 is an album by American jazz saxophonist Ernest Dawkins' New Horizons Ensemble, recorded in 1994 and released on the Swedish Silkheart label.

<i>Ahmed Abdullah and the Solomonic Quintet</i> 1988 studio album by Ahmed Abdullah and the Solomonic Quintet

Ahmed Abdullah and the Solomonic Quintet is an album by trumpeter Ahmed Abdullah's featuring saxophonist David S. Ware, guitarist Masujaa, bassist Fred Hopkins, and drummer Charles Moffett, recorded in late 1987 and released on the Swedish Silkheart label.

<i>Attainment</i> (album) 1988 studio album by Charles Brackeen Quartet

Attainment is the third album led by saxophonist Charles Brackeen which recorded in 1987 and released on the Swedish Silkheart label.

<i>Worshippers Come Nigh</i> 1988 studio album by Charles Brackeen Quartet

Worshippers Come Nigh is the fourth album led by saxophonist Charles Brackeen which was recorded in 1987 and released on the Swedish Silkheart label.

<i>Bannar</i> (album) 1987 studio album by Charles Brackeen

Bannar is the second album led by saxophonist Charles Brackeen which was recorded in 1987 and released on the Swedish Silkheart label.

<i>This Happening</i> 1997 studio album by Michael Marcus and Jaki Byard

This Happening is an album by multi-instrumentalist Michael Marcus and pianist Jaki Byard.

<i>Involution</i> (album) 1998 studio album by Michael Marcus

Involution is an album by multi-instrumentalist Michael Marcus, with the Jaki Byard trio.

References

  1. Passage to Music at Silkheart Records
  2. 1 2 Yanow, Scott. David Ware – Passage to Music: Review at AllMusic . Retrieved February 3, 2014.
  3. 1 2 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.