Release Date: 05 May 2023
Label: AUM Fidelity
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 642623309629
Genres: Jazz Avant-garde
Description
2023 repress with new packaging. 'Birth of a Being' presents the essential first studio recordings by the late and incomparable jazz saxophonist David S. Ware as a bandleader.
Recorded in New York, April 1977, the first disc features material originally released on LP by the Swiss label, hat Hut Records - out of print for over 30 years. The second disc features a full additional album of top-shelf material from those same sessions that have never been released in any form. This definitive edition was sourced from the original analog 8- track tapes, and newly mixed in 2015. Crucial. And it sounds stunning.
Ware's band here, featuring Cooper-Moore on piano and Marc Edwards on drums, was known as Apogee. The long-standing & incessantly active collective trio formed in Boston (Ware attended college there) at the end of the 60s and relocated to NYC to work within the seventies loft scene.
Tracklisting
James Brandon Lewis / Red Lily Quintet
William Parker
William Parker
Mendoza Hoff Revels
William Parker, Cooper-Moore & Hamid Drake
William Parker & Ellen Christi
William Parker & In Order To Survive
Darius Jones
A Bigger MOUTH
Barry Guy
John Zorn
A.M.E.N
Savina Yannatou, Floros Floridis, Barry Guy & Ramon Lopez
Weird Of Mouth
Paul Dunmall & Kevin Figes
Kevin Figes & Julie Tippetts
