DAVID.S.WARE- FLIGHT OF I ,1992

hi all,
heres one that a lot of people remember fondly ,as one of the milestones of the 1990's free jazz,revival.
one of the great tenor players of recent decades ,this one is a classic.

it has dissapeared from the catalog,first issued by columbia in 1992, it was (as has been the unfortunate fate of great ,free jazz records on major labels)promptly discarded after a short run.
picked up by d.i.w in 2002, several jazz references list this as being out of print.
the disc union web catalog,does not have this on its books at present, there are no copies on ebay.

it appears that the only place you can buy a secondhand copy is on amazon.
hopefully this will see reissue soon.
most of you will already have this, but those that dont will certainly want to hear it,a masterpiece, as is godspellized also sadly oop

i first heard ware on andrew cyrille's magnificent black saint records from the late 70's and early eighties, which are available and highly recommended.

go to david s wares website here http://www.davidsware.com/html/biography.htm

here is a review of this album by thom jurek
This is the final recording of the David S. Ware Quartet with drummer Marc Edwards, who would be replaced by Whit Dickey, who would be replaced later by Susie Ibarra. What is most notable about Flight of I is how Ware, completely oblivious to his critics, turned in his straightest ever recording, though no one could remotely call it "inside." The disc opens with one of Ware's compositions, "Aquarian Sound," which showcases the stunning complexity and beauty of Matthew Shipp's pianism. Opening with a series of vamps and augmented minor chords, he lays an opening ground for Ware to join the band. As bassist William Parker comes along the bottom floor of the beat, Ware enters with his five part ostinato before moving off into one of his high-wire broad-toned solos. The break is brief and ushers in Shipp's solo, which is the body and soul of the tune. Here Shipp builds one harmonic bridge after another, knotting them together with blocks of arpeggios that move along the perimeter of the empty intervals and stamps out territory within them. One of the other wonders of this album is Ware's employment of standards, here in the shape of the lovely "Yesterdays" by Jerome Kern and Harry Warren's "There Will Never Be Another You." Again, with Shipp as a foundation point and Parker's willingness to restructure the meter, Ware can take the melody to its highest point and split it like lightning down the middle without losing its vulnerability or tenderness. The title track is a model study in the vein of mid-period Coltrane with McCoy Tyner. A series of chords are placed along a line, an intervallic series sketched and the construction of harmonic and contrapuntal statements begins. Once the seams are reached, the entire universe blows apart in ribbons of sound. There is plenty of magic here, and more mystery (check out the riveting arabesques on the closer "Infi-Rythms #1"), to be discovered by anyone willing to take a chance on one of the most original tenor players in free jazz.

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