Passage to Music
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{{Infobox album
| name = Passage to Music
| type = studio
| artist = David S. Ware
| cover = Passage_to_Music.jpg
| alt =
| released = 1989
| recorded = April 4 & 5, 1988
| venue =
| studio = A&R Recording, New York
| genre = Jazz
| length = 48:23 (LP)
69:06 (CD)
| label = Silkheart
| producer = David S. Ware
| chronology = David S. Ware
| prev_title = Birth of a Being
| prev_year = 1979
| next_title = Great Bliss, Vol. 1
| next_year = 1991
}}
Passage to Music is an album by American jazz saxophonist David S. Ware, recorded in 1988 and released on the Swedish Silkheart label. Besides the tenor sax, Ware plays the saxello, a variant of the soprano sax played by English jazz musician Elton Dean, and the stritch, a straight alto sax associated with multi-instrumentalist Rahsaan Roland Kirk. The CD edition includes two bonus tracks.[http://www.silkheart.se/release.php?catno=113 Passage to Music] at Silkheart Records
Reception
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev2 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz
| rev2Score = {{rating|3.5|4}}
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In his review for AllMusic, Scott Yanow states "David Ware's searching improvisations reward repeated listenings by open-eared listeners."{{allMusic|last=Yanow|first=Scott|class=album|id=mw0000256959|title=David Ware – Passage to Music: Review|accessdate=February 3, 2014}}
The Penguin Guide to Jazz states "Passage To Music has something of Ayler's and Sander's Afro-mysticism and constitutes something of a personal initiation".
{{cite book|last = Cook|first = Richard|author-link = Richard Cook (journalist)|author2=Brian Morton |author-link2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title = The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD|edition = 6th|series = The Penguin Guide to Jazz|year = 2002|publisher = Penguin|location = London|isbn = 0-14-051521-6|pages = 1516}}
Track listing
:All compositions by David S. Ware
- "An Ancient Formula" - 6:00
- "Ancient Visitors" - 7:30
- "Passage To Music"- 10:46
- "African Secrets" - 10:47
- "The Elders Path" - 13:20
- "Phonetic Hymn" - 9:00
- "Mystery" - 11:43
:6 & 7 does not appear on original LP
Personnel
- David S. Ware - tenor sax, saxello, stritch
- William Parker - bass
- Marc Edwards - drums
References
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