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Double Bass Wilbur Ware Super Bass
- Thread starter oliebrice
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You can buy it on CD baby.... You can hear snippets of each tune including some solo bass tracks....
I ordered it from the website [Invalid or Expired Link Removed] A little expensive but it came in a few days. Some serious swing! I played this for my teacher who worked with Blackwell and Don Cherry a fair bit and the look on his face was priceless..
Earl
Supporting Member
Finally heard this. Great music, loads of beautiful Wilbur Ware (including unaccompanied solo tracks), and Don Cherry sounds fantastic. it's a real shame though that the mixing and mastering are so poor. The hook-up between Wilbur Ware and Ed Blackwell should be a major contribution to the study of classic rhythm sections, but Blackwell is mixed way too low, making it hard to hear a lot of what he's doing. He sounds a bit messy and uninspired on this to me (and I say that from the perspective of him being one of my all time favourite drummers) but that's probably more to do with the sound than the playing
Will have to track this one down. The latest Ware I can remember hearing is from a Charles Moffett record, 1969, I think.
In one of LeRoi Jones' books (Black Music, I think) he writes of a trio w/Ware, Cherry and Billy Higgins which was not recorded or, at least, no records released. "Super Bass" may be as close as I get to hearing that group.
In one of LeRoi Jones' books (Black Music, I think) he writes of a trio w/Ware, Cherry and Billy Higgins which was not recorded or, at least, no records released. "Super Bass" may be as close as I get to hearing that group.
I think Alvin Fielder financed it! I just got off the phone with him, we have a bunch of gigs coming up. He told me about it on tour last year!
One of the fun things about this recording is how much Wilbur Ware is chanelling Jimmy Blanton - one of the solo tracks quotes loads of 'Jack the Bear', and the vibe is very Blanton-esque all the way through.
Al co-produced it! There is another one coming with FOUR drummers: Blackwell, Roger Blank, Denis Charles and one other, maybe Clifford Jarvis.
We are doing a radio show around it on Sunday, with Alvin and I playing live duos:
This Sunday, 7-9pm texas time, Pete Gershon's KTRU show: Damon Smith/Alvin Fielder duo live + the new Wilbur Ware album & unreleased music from Alvin's personal archive.
Listen live at: http://ktru.org/
We are doing a radio show around it on Sunday, with Alvin and I playing live duos:
This Sunday, 7-9pm texas time, Pete Gershon's KTRU show: Damon Smith/Alvin Fielder duo live + the new Wilbur Ware album & unreleased music from Alvin's personal archive.
Listen live at: http://ktru.org/
Sounds like the Frontier dates have finally been granted.
YES!!
Date: January 1968
Location: New York City
Label: Frontier
Ed Blackwell (ldr), Lukman Lateef (ts), Don Cherry (c), Wilbur Ware (b), Ed Blackwell (d)
a. a-02 That Moment Of Glance - 4:50
b. b-01 Farid - 9:05
Date: January 1968
Location: New York City
Label: Frontier
Don Cherry (ldr), Clifford Jordan (ts), Ahmed Muvaffak 'Maffy' Falay (t), Don Cherry (c), Wilbur Ware (b), Ed Blackwell (d)
a. Sound Shine (part 1)
b. Dee Boo-Dat
c. Ahmed Muvaffak
Date: January 1969
Location: New York City
Label: Frontier
Wilbur Ware (ldr), Clifford Jordan (ts), Don Cherry (t), Wilbur Ware (b), Ed Blackwell (d)
a. a-01 Symphony For .... - 10:16 (Wilbur Ware)
b. a-02 Red Cross - 8:21 (Charlie Parker)
c. a-03 Mod House - 5:49
d. b-01 Superbass [aka ? BeWare] - 7:24 (Wilbur Ware)
e. b-02 Sophisticated Lady - 8:35 (Duke Ellington, Mitchell Parish, Irving Mills)
f. b-03 All By Myself - 7:43 (Irving Berlin)
Clifford Jordan (ts) on b-e; Don Cherry (t) on b-e; Ed Blackwell (d) on b-e.
Frontier documents list Sophisticated Lady as "A Real Nice Lady".
Bruyninckx lists drummer as Al Foster but Frontier documents list Blackwell.
Composers of a. c. f. need confirmation.
Date: ca. 1970
Location: New York City
Label: Frontier
Wilbur Ware (ldr), Cecil Payne (f, bar), Roland Alexander (ts), Kiane Zawadi (eu), Norman Simmons (p), Wilbur Ware (b), Al Foster (d)
a. [unknown titles] (Composer Unknown)
"Alexander and Zawadi were also on a recent record date led by bassist Wilbur Ware for New Frontier records with Cecil Payne, baritone saxophone and flute; Norman Simmons, piano, and Al Foster, drums." - db 2/5/70 p.39
YES!!
Date: January 1968
Location: New York City
Label: Frontier
Ed Blackwell (ldr), Lukman Lateef (ts), Don Cherry (c), Wilbur Ware (b), Ed Blackwell (d)
a. a-02 That Moment Of Glance - 4:50
b. b-01 Farid - 9:05
Date: January 1968
Location: New York City
Label: Frontier
Don Cherry (ldr), Clifford Jordan (ts), Ahmed Muvaffak 'Maffy' Falay (t), Don Cherry (c), Wilbur Ware (b), Ed Blackwell (d)
a. Sound Shine (part 1)
b. Dee Boo-Dat
c. Ahmed Muvaffak
Date: January 1969
Location: New York City
Label: Frontier
Wilbur Ware (ldr), Clifford Jordan (ts), Don Cherry (t), Wilbur Ware (b), Ed Blackwell (d)
a. a-01 Symphony For .... - 10:16 (Wilbur Ware)
b. a-02 Red Cross - 8:21 (Charlie Parker)
c. a-03 Mod House - 5:49
d. b-01 Superbass [aka ? BeWare] - 7:24 (Wilbur Ware)
e. b-02 Sophisticated Lady - 8:35 (Duke Ellington, Mitchell Parish, Irving Mills)
f. b-03 All By Myself - 7:43 (Irving Berlin)
Clifford Jordan (ts) on b-e; Don Cherry (t) on b-e; Ed Blackwell (d) on b-e.
Frontier documents list Sophisticated Lady as "A Real Nice Lady".
Bruyninckx lists drummer as Al Foster but Frontier documents list Blackwell.
Composers of a. c. f. need confirmation.
Date: ca. 1970
Location: New York City
Label: Frontier
Wilbur Ware (ldr), Cecil Payne (f, bar), Roland Alexander (ts), Kiane Zawadi (eu), Norman Simmons (p), Wilbur Ware (b), Al Foster (d)
a. [unknown titles] (Composer Unknown)
"Alexander and Zawadi were also on a recent record date led by bassist Wilbur Ware for New Frontier records with Cecil Payne, baritone saxophone and flute; Norman Simmons, piano, and Al Foster, drums." - db 2/5/70 p.39
Sorry for reviving an old post but anyway,
Does anybody else own Super Bass and their track 7 ends fairly abruptly like right in the middle of a solo?
I believe it also starts with a false start so maybe it was just a sample.
Just worried if my CD is effed.
Cheers guys
Does anybody else own Super Bass and their track 7 ends fairly abruptly like right in the middle of a solo?
I believe it also starts with a false start so maybe it was just a sample.
Just worried if my CD is effed.
Cheers guys
apparently Mosaic are releasing a 6 CD box set of all the Clifford Jordan Strata East sessions, which includes 'super bass', and a previously unreleased Ed Blackwell Quartet record with the same line-up!
