''Live in Sant'Anna Arresi, 2004'' is an album by American jazz saxophonist

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, a duo performance with pianist Matthew Shipp recorded in 2004 at Ai confini tra Sardegna e Jazz festival, but not issued until 2016 by AUM Fidelity label. It was the second volume in the David S. Ware Archive Series, after the expanded reissue of ''

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''.''Live in Sant'Anna Arresi, 2004''
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Reception

The All About Jazz review by Karl Ackermann says "we have unconstrained improvisation, sensibly executed with neither excess nor self-imposed limitation. Both Ware and Shipp effect knotty, non-linear phrases only to break off in unexpected directions."Ackermann, Karl
''Live in Sant'Anna Arresi, 2004'' review
at All About Jazz In a review for ''

Down Beat ' (styled in all caps) is an American music magazine devoted to "jazz, blues and beyond", the last word indicating its expansion beyond the jazz realm which it covered exclusively in previous years. The publication was established in 1934 in Chi ...

'', Bill Meyer notes "Shipp spends considerable time under his piano’s lid, creating otherworldly bursts of pure, fragile sound that contrast most productively with Ware’s fiery blowing."Meyer, Bill. ''Live in Sant'Anna Arresi, 2004'' review. ''Down Beat'' January 17: page 71. Print. The Point of Departure review by Chris Robinson states "Ware and Matthew Shipp played a forty minute improvised duo set that is stunning in its urgency, vitality, virtuosity, and coherence as a large scale work."Robinson, Chris
''Live in Sant'Anna Arresi, 2004'' review
at Point of Departure

Track listing

All compositions by Ware / Shipp. # "Tao Flow Part 1" – 21:06 # "Tao Flow Part 2" – 20:23 # "Encore" – 4:29

Personnel

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tenor saxophone The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B (while th ...

* Matthew Shipp –

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

References

{{Authority control 2016 live albums David S. Ware live albums AUM Fidelity live albums