In 1956 Sonny Rollins was one of the best-known tenor saxophonists in jazz, having recorded and released two wonderful and classic jazz albums, Saxophone Colossus and Tenor Madness, the latter being a ...

Tenor saxophonist David S. Ware is something of a prophet. That may sound like a melodramatic exaggeration, but it's true. Ware belongs in a long tradition of African American musical testimony which ...

The continued implication that free jazz is a fraud perpetrated by history-deficient no-talents gets another smackdown thanks to David Ware. Well known for his blistering improvisations, Ware daringly ...

In 1958 Sonny Rollins had good reason to compose and record his epic piece "The Freedom Suite." The great tenor saxophonist had been repeatedly rebuffed in his attempts to rent an apartment in certain ...