David S. Ware Quartet – Freedom Suite

Freedom Suite by David S. Ware Quartet  [AUM023] David S. Ware: tenor saxophone Matthew Shipp: piano William Parker: bass Guillermo E. Brown: drums In 2002, David S. Ware and his Quartet brought Sonny Rollins' protest jazz masterpiece into the new century, exquisitely. The July 13 session for this album also proved to be the final time that the DSWQ – one of the greatest bands in the history of jazz – went into the studio. Rollins' original 1958 recording (with Oscar Pettiford and Max Roach), is a 19 minute tour de force of four interconnected themes, and one of the master's most acclaimed pieces. As arranged by Ware, and performed by his Quartet, the composition is brought with exceptional grace full into the present day – a lush and utterly committed interpretation, spanning 40 minutes and following David S. Ware's intensive and intuitive direction. "For sheer ferocity of expression, fearlessness of conception and brilliance of delivery, the Ware version is hard to beat, the