Third Ear Recitation

Third Ear Recitation
Studio album by
David S. Ware
Released1993
RecordedOctober 14 & 15, 1992
StudioSound On Sound, New York
GenreJazz
Length59:12
LabelDIW
ProducerKazunori Sugiyama
David S. Ware chronology
Flight of I
(1992) 		Third Ear Recitation
(1993) 		Earthquation
(1994)

Third Ear Recitation is an album by American jazz saxophonist David S. Ware recorded in 1992 and released on the Japanese DIW label. This is the first recording by the David S. Ware Quartet with Whit Dickey replacing former drummer Marc Edwards.

Music

Ware, who learned circular breathing from Sonny Rollins at the age of sixteen, tackles the Rollins composition "East Broadway Run Down" at almost twice the tempo Rollins did on the album of the same name in 1966. Ware, a lifelong student of rhythm, dedicated "The Chase" to early associate drummer Beaver Harris, who died in December 1991. The quartet also plays two standards, Matt Dennis' "Angel Eyes", and two completely different takes of Joseph Kosma's "Autumn Leaves".[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz[3]

In his review for AllMusic, Thom Jurek states: "This is one of David S. Ware's most notorious, yet well-developed and executed recordings."[2] The Penguin Guide to Jazz wrote that the album "was some sort of confirmation of Ware's growing interest in a more linear and at the same time harmonically refined approach to jazz."[3]

Track listing

All compositions by David S. Ware except as indicated
  1. "Autumn Leaves" (Joseph Kosma) - 3:43
  2. "East Broadway Run Down" (Sonny Rollins) - 9:40
  3. "Mystic March" - 5:39
  4. "Angel Eyes" (Matt Dennis) - 7:18
  5. "Third Ear Recitation" - 4:42
  6. "Free Flow Dialogue" - 3:17
  7. "Sentient Compassion" - 6:46
  8. "The Chase" - 9:11
  9. "Autumn Leaves" (Joseph Kosma) - 8:56

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Original Liner Notes by Ben Ratliff
  2. ^ a b Jurek, Thom. David S. Ware – Third Ear Recitation: Review at AllMusic. Retrieved February 25, 2014.
  3. ^ a b Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2002). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (6th ed.). London: Penguin. p. 1516. ISBN 0-14-051521-6.