The ten albums Darius Jones has made as a leader or coleader since 2009 reveal an artist who can’t be pinned down. As part of the collective Little Women, the New York-based alto saxophonist combined extended instrumental techniques, postpunk rhythms, and a ritual demeanor reminiscent of martial arts practice to create devastating concert experiences. The […]
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Pianist Matthew Shipp can make magic with the perfect partner
Pianist Matthew Shipp has released more than a dozen albums with Brazilian saxophonist Ivo Perelman just in the past two years, and their Jazz Festival set is the first time they’ve played together in Chicago.
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Holiday gifts for music fiends
Ten of the year’s best box sets—including 17 discs of Harry Nilsson, six decades of southeast Asian 78s, and more
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Jazz: Saxophonist David S. Ware dead at 62
Titanic free-jazz saxophonist David S. Ware has died
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Saxophonist David S. Ware, sound and vision
Saxophonist David S. Ware is the subject of a new documentary coming to the David Lynch Foundation website, and some of his 2010 concert at Elastic Arts will soon turn up on the album “Organic (Solo Saxophones, Volume 2).”
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David S. Ware’s new sound and new kidney
Great free-jazz saxophonist David S. Ware, who was in danger of dying of kidney failure six months ago, has undergone a successful transplant.
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David S. Ware needs a new kidney
Great tenor saxophonist David S. Ware is in dire need of a kidney transplant.