Godspelized

Godspelized
Studio album by David S. Ware
Released	1996
Recorded	May 2 & 3, 1996
Studio	Sound on Sound, New York
Genre	Jazz
Length	66:43
Label	DIW
Producer	Kazunori Sugiyama
David S. Ware chronology
DAO (1996) Godspelized (1996) Wisdom of Uncertainty (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

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz	(Crown award)[2]

In his review for AllMusic, Thom Jurek states: "This is purely spiritual music, inspiring, moving, and deeply affecting."^[1] 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."^[2]

The Wire placed the album in their "50 Records Of The Year 1996" list.^[3]

Track listing

All compositions by David S. Ware except as indicated

1. "Godspelized" – 15:44
2. "Wisdomsphere" – 7:55
3. "Inner Temple" – 6:40
4. "Wisdom Through Time" – 7:54
5. "The Stargazers" (Sun Ra) – 12:26
6. "Eternal Faces of Brahm" – 11:44
7. "Godspelized" – 4:20

Personnel

• tenor sax
• Matthew Shipp – piano
• William Parker – bass
• drums

References