Earthquation

Earthquation
Studio album by
David S. Ware
Released1994
RecordedMay 4 & 5, 1994
StudioPower Station, New York
GenreJazz
Length56:05
LabelDIW
ProducerKazunori Sugiyama
David S. Ware chronology
Third Ear Recitation
(1993) 		Earthquation
(1994) 		Cryptology
(1995)

Earthquation is an album by the American jazz saxophonist David S. Ware, recorded in 1994 and released on the Japanese DIW label.[1]

Music

As in previous DIW sessions, the quartet plays two standards, Eddie Heywood's "Canadian Sunset", which Ware first heard when he was young on Prestige record Boss Tenor by the saxophonist Gene Ammons, and two different versions of Walter Gross' "Tenderly". "Cococana" is dedicated to the Dutch filmmaker Coco Schrijber, who made the documentary about Ware In Motion.[2]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[1]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz[4]

In his review for AllMusic, Don Snowden wrote: "Earthquation is almost certainly a lesser work in the David S. Ware discography."[3] By contrast, The Penguin Guide to Jazz thought that the album "is the more visceral to date, and the first that really begins to push the envelope; Coltrane, Ayler and Sanders suddenly do seem like a generation back."[4] The Gramophone wrote that "the swarming intensity, the restless momentum ... sound here like so much huffing and puffing; strenuous bravura standing in for loss of direction."[5] Option wrote that Ware "is not out of control; he's just able to sustain solos for several minutes without a lot of melodic information."[6]

Track listing

All compositions by David S. Ware except as indicated
  1. "Canadian Sunset" (Eddie Heywood / Norman Gimbel) - 7:32
  2. "Inverse Alchemy" - 8:55
  3. "Tenderly" (Walter Gross / Jack Lawrence) - 5:35
  4. "Ideational Blue" - 8:26
  5. "Cococana" - 11:32
  6. "Tenderly" (Walter Gross / Jack Lawrence) - 4:45
  7. "Earthquation" - 9:20

Personnel

References

  1. ^ a b Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 8. MUZE. p. 509.
  2. ^ Original liner notes by Tim Price
  3. ^ a b Snowden, Don. David S. Ware – Earthquation: Review at AllMusic. Retrieved February 26, 2014.
  4. ^ a b 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.
  5. ^ "Jazz". The Gramophone: 143. August 1995.
  6. ^ "Reviews". Option (61): 145. 1995.