Surrendered

Surrendered Artist: David S. Ware
Label: Sony
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 074646381625
EAN: 0074646381625
ASIN: B00004TB82


Release Date: 2000-05-23

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Tracks:

  1. Peace Celestial
  2. Sweet Georgia Bright
  3. Theme Of Ages
  4. Surrendered
  5. Glorified Calypso
  6. African Drums

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Wow.......2007-02-06

David S. Ware (b. 1949) is an incredibly talented tenor saxophonist who reminds me of a young Archie Shepp. This music is open and edgy, demanding listeners to let it inside. Ware represents a corner of the jazz world that continues to create, evolve and inspire modern listeners and critics with a sound uniquely his own. He is one of a handful pushing ahead on the cutting edge of freeform jazz music.

"Surrendered", recorded in October of 1999, is a superb endeavor with Ware accompanied by the following musicians: Matthew Shipp (piano), William Parker (bass) and Guillermo E. Brown (drums). Ware's musings are careful yet unreserved, at once appearing as violent as they do tame. Occasionally Shipp pops up from the background with a stellar piano solo for audiences, with Parker and Brown forming the makes of a solid rhythm section. This album is well worth the price.

5 out of 5 stars Ware's finest session ... so far........2004-05-16

Free Jazz can be a difficult genre to expose people to. Especially when it comes to trying to recommend good introductory examples of it for novices. David S. Ware's second album for Columbia is just that sort of album. It's title has more to do with Ware's own realization that the time for the underground / indie rock scene to crossover with the free / avant-garde jazz community is ripe. This is more so than the spiritual inclinations given in the liner notes. Although those notes even acknowledge Ware's ubiquitous popularity among the tatooed and pierced set. Current opening slots for Sonic Youth certainly help in his exposure to this new breed of potential jazz fans.

The music itself is straight out of the now classic free jazz tradition as conceived by late period John Coltrane, Cecil Taylor and Albert Ayler. Free form drumming, screaming saxophones, modal bass plucking / bowing and slammed piano clusters have all been the trademarks of Ware's group sound in the past. But this album begs a plea for mainstream acceptance. Half of the album's tracks are straight out of the post-Coltrane tradition of monumental, free form-energy jazz, albeit with a somber / spiritual feel. Melodically they also share Coltrane's fascination with repeated motifs and repetitive melodic "mantras". But the rest of the tunes use traditional rhythmic structures to anchor them. This is new territory for Ware and his cohorts. There is a short R&B swing-shuffle, a propulsive calypso piece and a modal, African drumming styled selection to round out the disc. The sax solos are still tumultuous and full of the same building, blistering fury that put his name on the map. Matthew Shipp's piano playing is meandering and atonal yet strangely romantic in a melodic sort of way. But it is the rhythm section that holds it all together.

What some would call a watering down of Ware's normally advanced structural forms for the sake of mainstream acceptance, I call a breakthrough. For those looking to experience the cutting edge of today's avant-garde jazz scene in a traditional acoustic quartet format, this is the perfect compromise between classic "out" blowing and more rhythmically solid song structures. Some will cry sell out, I say it's his most listenable album yet. In a sense, it's his best one yet.

4 out of 5 stars Ware makes his own way........2002-01-25

David Ware plays a deep, fast, unique horn. Tonality is key to his technique, but he is not painfully bizarre--as was Pharaoh Sanders most of the time when he nearly ruined the latter Coltrane group (except when he played alto on "Live in Japan"). Ware's music is sometimes jarring, but bright with innovation. "Surrendered" is more approachable and less "outside" than, say, "Go See the World," which I also like. There is more song structure than in other "outside" jazz. Ware's fellow musicians fit well with his sensibilities, especially his pianist, Matthew Shipp, who can hold his own with Ware's ecstatic flights into the unknown. The last piece sounds a bit like "My Favorite Things," and swings in 3/4 time.

This is not one of my most-played discs, but it is just right for some moods. Ware has a voice of his own, to be sure.

--Douglas Groothuis

3 out of 5 stars just a bit flat.......2001-11-12

The pieces included on this album seem to hang together reasonably well. Ware and his band play well together as usual, and the new drummer seems to fit right in. So what's wrong? Nothing I can easily pinpoint. I've listened to it repeatedly, and it just doesn't hit me the way his previous release, "Go See the World" did. David S. Ware completists will want this, and fans of straight-ahead jazz who want to try something a bit more adventurous will get a safe introduction to one of avant-garde jazz's great combos. If you want to experience a Ware album with some raw emotion, stick to "Go See the World", or check out some of his work with William Parker (e.g., the excellent "The Peach Orchard" album comes most readily to mind). "Surrendered" will not go down as an essential recording in his canon, one that fans of adventurous jazz will neither love nor hate. If I could give a 3.5 star rating instead of 3 stars I would, on the strength of the last track (African Drums, which seems to have a bit more fire than the rest of the album).

4 out of 5 stars No penguin suits.......2001-05-31

These days mainstream jazzmen on big labels still wear buttoned down attire while their avant garde brethren have no suits :just shades, dashikis and jeans, but sartorial issues aside,David S. Ware quartet is a strong group with a great sound. William Parker and Guillermo Brown slap around the rhythm and offer Ware a solid foundation for his interplanetary sojourns on the T-sax. Matt Shipp is a genius who varies up the harmonic material and he plays free piano but never sounds Cecil-ian. This is good stuff without the dress code.

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