David S. Ware Quartet – Corridors & Parallels

Corridors & Parallels by David S. Ware Quartet Corridors & Parallels by David S. Ware Quartet  [AUM019] - CD in 4-panel digipak David S. Ware: tenor sax, percussions Matthew Shipp: synthesizer William Parker: bass Guillermo E. Brown: drums, percussions It was following a David S. Ware Quartet performance at the Blue Note in July 2001, and listening to an advance copy of Corridors & Parallels, that preeminent jazz critic Gary Giddins wrote the following in his Weatherbird (Village Voice) column: "Let's be bold: The David S. Ware Quartet is the best small band in jazz today. I realize that I will almost certainly hear another quartet, or trio or quintet or octet, this week or next, that will make me want to backpedal. But every time I see Ware's group or return to the records, it flushes the competition from memory." Five months later, in his annual review/best of year column, Giddins wrote on Corridors & Parallels again: "I disliked Lord of the Rings, but