Released 1994 Length 56:05 Earthquation
(1994) Cryptology
(1995) Release date 1994 Genre Jazz | Recorded May 4 & 5, 1994 Producer Kazunori Sugiyama Artist David S. Ware Label DIW Records | |
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Studio Power Station, New York Similar David S Ware albums, Jazz albums | ||
Earthquation is an album by the American jazz saxophonist David S. Ware, recorded in 1994 and released on the Japanese DIW label.
Contents
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.
Reception
In his review for AllMusic, Don Snowden wrote, "Earthquation is almost certainly a lesser work in the David S. Ware discography." By contrast, The Penguin Guide to Jazz says about the album that "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."
Track listing
All compositions by David S. Ware except as indicated- "Canadian Sunset" (Eddie Heywood / Norman Gimbel) - 7:32
- "Inverse Alchemy" - 8:55
- "Tenderly" (Walter Gross / Jack Lawrence) - 5:35
- "Ideational Blue" - 8:26
- "Cococana" - 11:32
- "Tenderly" (Walter Gross / Jack Lawrence) - 4:45
- "Earthquation" - 9:20
Personnel
Songs
1Canadian Sunset7:32
2Inverse ALchemy8:55
3Tenderly5:35