{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Earthquation | type = studio | artist = David S. Ware | cover = Earthquation_Cover.jpg | alt = | released = 1994 | recorded = May 4 & 5, 1994 | venue = | studio = Power Station, New York | genre = Jazz | length = 56:05 | label = DIW | producer = Kazunori Sugiyama | chronology = David S. Ware | prev_title = Third Ear Recitation | prev_year = 1993 | next_title = Cryptology | next_year = 1995 }} '''''Earthquation''''' is an album by the American jazz saxophonist David S. Ware, recorded in 1994 and released on the Japanese DIW label.<ref name=CL/>
==Music== As in previous DIW sessions, the quartet plays two standards, Eddie Heywood's "Canadian Sunset", which Ware first heard when he was young on Prestige record ''Boss Tenor'' by the saxophonist Gene Ammons, and two different versions of Walter Gross' "Tenderly". "Cococana" is dedicated to the Dutch filmmaker Coco Schrijber, who made the documentary about Ware ''In Motion''.<ref name="Liner notes">Original liner notes by Tim Price</ref>
==Reception== {{Music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name="Allmusic"/> |rev2 = ''The Encyclopedia of Popular Music'' |rev2score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name="CL">{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |date=2006 |publisher=MUZE |volume=8 |page=509}}</ref> | rev3 = ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz'' | rev3Score = {{rating|4|4}}<ref name="Penguin Guide"/> }} In his review for AllMusic, Don Snowden wrote: "''Earthquation'' is almost certainly a lesser work in the David S. Ware discography."<ref name="Allmusic">{{allMusic|last=Snowden|first=Don|class=album|id=mw0000174397|title=David S. Ware – ''Earthquation'': Review|accessdate=February 26, 2014}}</ref> By contrast, ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz'' thought that the album "is the more visceral to date, and the first that really begins to push the envelope; Coltrane, Ayler and Sanders suddenly do seem like a generation back."<ref name="Penguin Guide">{{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}}</ref> ''The Gramophone'' wrote that "the swarming intensity, the restless momentum ... sound here like so much huffing and puffing; strenuous bravura standing in for loss of direction."<ref>{{cite journal |title=Jazz |journal=The Gramophone |date=August 1995 |page=143}}</ref> ''Option'' wrote that Ware "is not out of control; he's just able to sustain solos for several minutes without a lot of melodic information."<ref>{{cite journal |title=Reviews |journal=Option |date=1995 |issue=61 |page=145}}</ref>
==Track listing== :''All compositions by David S. Ware except as indicated'' # "Canadian Sunset" (Eddie Heywood / Norman Gimbel) - 7:32 # "Inverse Alchemy" - 8:55 # "Tenderly" (Walter Gross / Jack Lawrence) - 5:35 # "Ideational Blue" - 8:26 # "Cococana" - 11:32 # "Tenderly" (Walter Gross / Jack Lawrence) - 4:45 # "Earthquation" - 9:20
==Personnel== *David S. Ware - tenor saxophone *Matthew Shipp - piano *William Parker - double bass *Whit Dickey - drums
==References== {{reflist}} {{David S. Ware}} {{Authority control}}
Category:1994 albums Category:David S. Ware albums Category:DIW Records albums