{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Godspelized | type = studio | artist = David S. Ware | cover = Godspelized_Cover.jpeg |border=yes | alt = | released = 1996 | recorded = May 2 & 3, 1996 | venue = | studio = Sound on Sound, New York | genre = Jazz | length = 66:43 | label = DIW | producer = Kazunori Sugiyama | chronology = David S. Ware | prev_title = DAO | prev_year = 1996 | next_title = Wisdom of Uncertainty | next_year = 1997 }} '''''Godspelized''''' is an album by the 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== {{Music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{rating|4.5|5}}<ref name="Allmusic"/> | rev2 = ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz'' | rev2Score = {{rating|4|4}}<br/>(Crown award)<ref name="Penguin Guide"/> }} In his review for AllMusic, Thom Jurek states: "This is purely spiritual music, inspiring, moving, and deeply affecting."<ref name="Allmusic">{{allMusic|last=Jurek|first=Thom|class=album|id=mw0000035345|title=David S. Ware – ''Godspelized'': Review|accessdate=March 2, 2014}}</ref> The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded the album one of its rare crown accolades, writing that "only Charles Gayle, another William Parker associate, has managed to push the Coltrane idiom further out."<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 Wire'' placed the album in their "50 Records of the Year 1996" list.<ref name="Wire">[http://www.thewire.co.uk/issues/charts/1996-rewind 1996 Rewind] at ''The Wire''</ref>
==Track listing== :''All compositions by David S. Ware except as indicated'' # "Godspelized" – 15:44 # "Wisdomsphere" – 7:55 # "Inner Temple" – 6:40 # "Wisdom Through Time" – 7:54 # "The Stargazers" (Sun Ra) – 12:26 # "Eternal Faces of Brahm" – 11:44 # "Godspelized" – 4:20
==Personnel== *David S. Ware – tenor sax *Matthew Shipp – piano *William Parker – bass *Susie Ibarra – drums
==References== {{reflist}} {{David S. Ware}} {{Authority control}}
Category:1996 albums Category:David S. Ware albums Category:DIW Records albums