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Great Bliss, Vol. 2

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Released
  
1991

Great Bliss, Vol. 2 (1991)
  
Flight of I (1992)

Release date
  
1991

Label
  
Silkheart Records

Length
  
69:55

Artist
  
David S. Ware

Producer
  
David S. Ware

Genre
  
Jazz

Recorded
  
January 8, 9 & 10, 1990

Studio
  
Sound on Sound Recording, New York

Similar
  
David S Ware albums, Jazz albums

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.

Contents

Reception

In his review for AllMusic, Don Snowden states "If you can only have just one, Great Bliss, Vol. 2 is definitely the pick for painting a much better picture of David S. Ware's quartet as a cohesive musical entity."

Track listing

All compositions by David S. Ware
  1. "One Two Three" - 12:00
  2. "Emptiness" - 4:00
  3. "Primary Piece III"- 8:30
  4. "Saxelloscape Two" - 5:00
  5. "The Child Without - The Child Within" - 10:50
  6. "Strichland" - 12:15
  7. "Low Strata" - 6:20
  8. "Reign of Peace" - 11:00

Personnel

  • David S. Ware - flute, tenor sax, saxello, stritch
  • Matthew Shipp - piano
  • William Parker - bass
  • Marc Edwards - drums, tympany, chimes, gongs
  • References

    Great Bliss, Vol. 2 Wikipedia