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James "Jabbo" Ware (* 1942 in Rome , Georgia ) is an American jazz - saxophonist , bandleader, arranger and composer. Ware is the founder of the Me, We and Them Orchestra .

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Jabbo Ware began his musical education in 1960 on the alto saxophone in St. Louis. In the late 1960s he played in various rhythm and blues bands and composed for the Black Artists Group in St. Louis, where he worked with musicians such as Oliver Lake , Julius Hemphill , JD Parran and Hamiet Bluiett . Under the influence of Bluiett's playing on the baritone saxophone , Ware switched to this instrument; Bluiett convinced him to move to New York City in 1970 . There he studied improvisation and composition with George Coleman and worked with formations such as the CBA Band (Collective Black Artists) and in the bands of Frank Foster and Sam Rivers ; He also worked with Dollar Brand , Albert King , Charles Mingus and Archie Shepp , on whose Impulse albums Attica Blues and Cry of My People he participated. During this time, Ware met the musicians of what would later become his own orchestra. Through Shepp's mediation, he met Cal Massey , who performed two of Wares' compositions at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst .

From this collaboration and his experience with big bands since his time in St. Louis, where he played in George Hudson's Big Band, the impulse came to found the Me, We and The Orchestra in 1973. Stylistically, Wares Big Band was strongly influenced by the Duke Ellington Orchestra , but also influenced by the bands of Charles Mingus and Gil Evans . In 1991 the album Today's Move was created (with Cecil Bridgewater , John Scott , Mala Waldron , Anthony Cox and Warren Smith, among others ). In 1994 the album Heritage Is was released on Soul Note . On his album Something is Coming (2001) a. a JD Parran , Cecil Bridgewater, Bill Lowe , Hilton Ruiz , Warren Smith, and Thurman Barker . In 2004 the live album Vignettes in the Spirit of Ellington was released (on Wares label Y'all of New York , created 2001), followed by Strings and Horns (2005)

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SURNAME Goods, jabbo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ware, James
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome , Georgia