Earthquation | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | 1994 | |||
Recorded | May 4 & 5, 1994 | |||
Studio | Power Station, New York | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 56:05 | |||
Label | DIW | |||
Producer | Kazunori Sugiyama | |||
David S. Ware chronology | ||||
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Earthquation is an album by the American jazz saxophonist David S. Ware, recorded in 1994 and released on the Japanese DIW label. [1]
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]
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
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]