David S. Ware Songs List

The Wire: "BALLADWARE is impeccably sequenced, from 'Yesterdays' to the closing 15 minute take on 'Angel Eyes'. It's a journey and the timing of its release is perfect."

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Yesterdays
• 2.Dao
• 3.Autumn Leaves
• 4.Gospelized
• 5.Sentient Compassion
• 6.Tenderly
• 7.Angel Eyes

CMJ: "...Brings out a new, darker, more urbane feel in Ware's music....many of these tunes highlight the melody and group dynamic by keeping a tight rein on everybody's playing..."

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Ananda Rotation
• 2.Suffic Passages
• 3.Weave I
• 4.Threads
• 5.Carousel of Lightness
• 6.Weave II

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 3.Durga
• 4.Reflection
• 5.Namah
• 6.Samsara (Reprise)
• 1.Crossing Samsara: Part One
• 2.Crossing Samsara: Part Two

Down Beat: 4 stars out of 5 -- "As with Sonny Rollins, although Ware is an entirely different player, there is an uncompromising individuality to Ware's approach."

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Crossing Samsara
• 2.Nataraj
• 3.Reflection
• 4.Namah
• 5.Antidromic
• 6.Shakti: Durga / Devi / Kali

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Prayer 10:54
• 2.Thematic Womb 16:34
• 3.A Primary Piece #1 13:48
• 4.A Primary Piece #2 12:00
• Tracks of Disc 2
• 1.Prayer [Alternate Take] 12:07
• 2.Cry 14:06
• 3.Stop Time 17:05
• 4.Ashimba 2:30
• 5.Solo 7:04

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Precessional 1
• 2.Precessional 2
• 3.Precessional 3

Down Beat: 4 stars out of 5 -- "Ware still exercises his mastery of motific improvisation, forging a bounty of terse fast-moving phrases and dissecting and reshaping them with determined thoroughness and invention."

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Book of Krittika
• 2.Wheel of Life
• 3.Celestial
• 4.Desire Worlds
• 5.Astral Earth
• 6.Savaka
• 7.Bardo
• 8.Anagami
• 9.Vata

Down Beat: 4 stars out of 5 - "...Exceedingly gratifying....an extraordinary outing..."

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Untitled
• 2.Straight Track
• 3.Jazz Fi-Sci
• 4.Superimposed
• 5.Sound-a-bye
• 6.Untitled
• 7.Corridors & Parallels
• 8.Somewhere
• 9.Spaces Embraces
• 10.Mother May You Rest In Bliss
• 11.Untitled

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Acclimation
• 2.Antidromic
• 3.Utopic
• 4.Alignment
• 5.Sunbows Rainsets Blue
• 6.Continuum

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 4.Kama
• 5.Virtue
• 6.Bodhisattva
• 7.Gnavah