SHAKTI
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http://freejazz-stef.blogspot.com/2009/06/david-s-ware-quartet-live-in-vilnius-no.html




www.volcanictongue.co.uk :
The Lithuanian (!) free jazz label NoBusiness has got off to such a great start, they’re already beginning to look like the heirs to the whole ESP Disk-Silkheart tradition of vital vinyl documents of contemporary fire music. And this has got to be their greatest move to date, a deluxe audiophile presentation of a concert by one of the all-time great free jazz quartets and heirs to the current previously channeled by the John Coltrane Quartet and the Frank Wright Quartet. This is the line-up featuring Ware, Parker and Shipp alongside drummer Guillermo E. Brown, recorded live in Lithuania in 2007. This set really has a ‘classic’ feel too it, opening up with a tempestuous Trane-heavy reading of Ware’s “Ganesh Sound”. Another highlight is the side-long plus take of Sun Ra’s “The Stargazers”, with Parker’s bass playing the perfect amalgam of pulse statement, tactile wood and wire feel and inspired tonal/melodic extrapolation. The closing version of “Surrendered” has all of the otherworldly emotional fanfare of Albert Ayler. The whole set is pressed across two slabs of vinyl that play at 45rpm to maximum sonic effect and it comes packaged in a full-colour gatefold sleeve. The David S. Ware Quartet are one of the great groups of my lifetime and this is a release to treasure. Edition of 1000 copies. Highly recommended.

L'opération du 12 mai s'est bien passée, David est chez lui sous médication anti rejet et haute surveillance pendant les 3 mois qui viennent.
David étant dans l'impossibilité de travailler depuis septembre 2008, un appel à dons est lancé afin de l'aider financièrement pendant cette période et l'année qui vient.
Merci de faire suivre.
http://www.aumfidelity.com/david-s-ware-health.html
De mon côté je ne puis qu'attendre que son état soit stabilisé avant de recommencer les démarches d'organisation de tournées.
Anne Dumas

Une chronique de SHAKTI par Guillaume Belhomme parue dans les inrocks :
http://www.lesinrocks.com/musique/musique-article/article/shakti-2/
à propos de la phrase :
"aux côtés de Cecil Taylor, David Murray et Peter Brotzman."

David S Ware a fait partie du Cecil Taylor Unit et enregistré avec lui, (Dark to themselves / ENJA 1976) mais d'aucun groupe avec David Murray ; il a joué une seule et unique fois dans un grand orchestre réunissant des musiciens américains et européens auquel participait également P. Brotzman.

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David S. Ware
Shakti
Aum Fidelity AUM052

David S. Ware’s Quartet with Matthew Shipp, William Parker and a succession of drummers concluding with Guillermo E. Brown was ecstatic jazz’s flagship, whose final 2006 Vision Festival concert had an end-of-an-era aura around it. However, the devotional impetus of the tenor saxophonist’s music precluded a long absence. Ware has returned leading an ensemble that places his fervor in a bracing new light. The obvious change is Joe Morris’ straight guitar sound, which is skeletal compared to Shipp’s colossal chords and clusters. Yet, instead of running head-on with Shipp’s counter, concussive force, Ware’s bellowed themes find a draft to ride in Morris’ linear approach, even at its most entwined and thorny. Morris also occasionally creates an earthy swing feel that securely connects Ware to jazz’s tenor tradition. Integral to this solder is the other significant personnel change in Ware’s line-up – Warren Smith. Ware’s had some excellent drummers; but they don’t come up to Smith’s level of mastery as a complete concert percussionist who, like Max Roach, approaches the traps as “multiple percussion.” Smith is constantly fleshing out the contours of a composition; a dicey proposition given that Ware’s writing often forgoes easy resolution. Smith’s deft dovetailing, which often entails a counterpoint between parts of his kit, helps keeps the music from muddying into an opaque mass. In this regard, the mesh of Smith’s approach with Parker’s patented mix of vertebrae-like motives, unadorned counter-melodies and arco textures is crucial. While Ware’s new palette on Shakti is the headline, it is his performances that comprise the body of the argument for the album. There are plenty of saxophonists who have a commanding presence; few have as many ways of establishing it as Ware. In his more tradition-evoking passages, his low and mid registers have brawn and soul that beg comparison with jazz’s most iconic boss sound practitioners. His altissimo sears like few others, past or present. But, Ware also does everything from delving into melodies that seem centuries older than jazz itself to creating out-of-nowhere whorls of sound. Shakti is both a successful turning of the page for Ware, as well as a reminder of just how compelling a figure he remains.
–Bill Shoemaker

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Shakti/ chronique de Jean Claude Gevrey

grandeur et présence de la musique afro américaine
Jean Buzelin

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"Our material existence can blind us from the stronger, natural forces that exist within and around us. Shakti operates as a call to remind people of their deeper essences. "
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/70216-david-s-ware-shakti/

Unquestionably one of the most forceful and original voices in contemporary saxophone. His first studio album in half a decade and a fabulous, welcome return".

-- Jez Nelson

Radio 3 BBC CO UK

http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/release/gp9x/


Ware’s inventiveness burns as brightly as ever, his playing encompassing every dynamic and expressive shade.
http://dustedmagazine.com/reviews/4788

In the new March issue, JazzTimes‘ Steve Greenlee adds, “he is certainly employing a broader palette than he did in his younger days. Gone is Matthew Shipp, who helped sculpt the Ware sound, replaced with guitarist Joe Morris, who plays with much more subtlety, giving Ware more breathing room for his own solos…a new direction for Ware, one that promises to be equally fulfilling.”

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