Month: January 2009

Sad news: David S. Ware, the renowned jazz saxophonist who was diagnosed with kidney failure in 1999, is now on a life-or-death search for a new kidney. Apparently, the dialysis treatment that allowed Ware to travel and continue playing music, not to mention live, for the past nine-plus years is no longer working. The only available option left is a kidney transplant. Though a number of people close to the 59-year-old Ware have offered their kidneys, they either had a different blood type (Ware’s is O) or were disqualified for other medical reasons. Ware’s manager, Steven Joerg, is asking that anyone willing to donate their kidney to get in touch with him as quickly as possible (aum@aumfidelity.com; 718-854-2387). Potential donors must be under the age of 60, in good health and have a blood type of O+ or O-. Read our 1998 profile of Ware here.

“4th Dimensional” from 2001’s Live In The Netherlands:
https://magnetmagazine.com/audio/4thDimensional.mp3 

January 16 was as busy a day in the life of Ryan Adams as ever. For a man who supposedly has a stockpile of hundreds of unreleased songs tucked away in his archive for a rainy day (god knows whether they’re any good, but that’s beside the point), “work rate” has never been an issue with Ryan Adams. It’s more a matter of direction for the Kid, and since voluntarily kicking his heroin/cocaine cocktail habit back in 2007, he’s appeared to be on what passes in Ryan Adams’ world as a socially acceptable, productive course of activity: He assembled the Cardinals, a terrific (and more importantly, stable) backing band, released several mediocre albums with occasional flashes of old brilliance and even announced plans for his first work of “soul poetry,” Infinity Blues (to be released later this year). But on that fateful Friday, our boy Ryan Adams got bizzay, but in a manner more befitting his old, substance-tainted lifestyle, telling the world in no particular order via his blog: