David S. Ware

tenor saxophone · 1949–2012 · Plainfield (New Jersey)

David S. Ware, saxophonist, composer and bandleader, led a quartet for 17 years, first on independent labels and then at Columbia. He died in 2012 of a blood infection following a kidney transplant in 2009.

Styles

• Free jazz
• Spiritual jazz

Landmark tracks

• Aquarian Sound (1991)
• Sad Eyes (1991)
• Flight of I (1991)
• Infi-Rhythms #1 (1991)

Sources

• Source

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