Godspelized

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Godspelized
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Studio album by
David S. Ware
Released1996
RecordedMay 2 & 3, 1996
StudioSound on Sound, New York
GenreJazz
Length66:43
LabelDIW
ProducerKazunori Sugiyama
David S. Ware chronology
DAO
(1996) 		Godspelized
(1996) 		Wisdom of Uncertainty
(1997)

Godspelized is an album by American jazz saxophonist David S. Ware recorded in 1996 and released on the Japanese DIW label. It was the first recording by the David S. Ware Quartet with drummer Susie Ibarra replacing Whit Dickey. The album includes a version of Sun Ra composition "The Stargazers".

Reception[]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic4.5/5 stars[1]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz4/4 stars
(Crown award)[2]

In his review for AllMusic, Thom Jurek states "This is purely spiritual music, inspiring, moving, and deeply affecting."[1] The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded the album one of its rare crown accolades and says that "only Charles Gayle, another William Parker associate, has managed to push the Coltrane idiom further out."[2]

The Wire placed the album in their "50 Records Of The Year 1996" list.[3]

Track listing[]

All compositions by David S. Ware except as indicated
  1. "Godspelized" – 15:44
  2. "Wisdomsphere" – 7:55
  3. "Inner Temple" – 6:40
  4. "Wisdom Through Time" – 7:54
  5. "The Stargazers" (Sun Ra) – 12:26
  6. "Eternal Faces of Brahm" – 11:44
  7. "Godspelized" – 4:20

Personnel[]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Jurek, Thom. David S. Ware – Godspelized: Review at AllMusic. Retrieved March 2, 2014.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2002). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (6th ed.). London: Penguin. p. 1516. ISBN 0-14-051521-6.
  3. ^ 1996 Rewind at The Wire
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