David S. Ware & Apogee - Birth Of A Being (Expanded)

2023 repress with new packaging. 'Birth of a Being' presents the essential first studio recordings by the late and incomparable jazz saxophonist David S. Ware as a bandleader.

Recorded in New York, April 1977, the first disc features material originally released on LP by the Swiss label, hat Hut Records - out of print for over 30 years. The second disc features a full additional album of top-shelf material from those same sessions that have never been released in any form. This definitive edition was sourced from the original analog 8- track tapes, and newly mixed in 2015. Crucial. And it sounds stunning.

Ware's band here, featuring Cooper-Moore on piano and Marc Edwards on drums, was known as Apogee. The long-standing & incessantly active collective trio formed in Boston (Ware attended college there) at the end of the 60s and relocated to NYC to work within the seventies loft scene.