Individually Twisted (32 Records - 1996)

Plain Old Joe (Knitting Factory Works - 1993)

The Jazz Passengers

This was the first studio album as a six piece group and took the band into some new compositional territory.

Live at the Knitting Factory (Knitting Factory Works - 1991)

The Jazz Passengers

This was the first opportunity for the band to capture the performance aspect of the band on record.

Implement Yourself (New World Records - 1990)

The Jazz Passengers

This CD was made possible by the Lila Wallace - Readers Digest Fund and was the most serious compositionally of the CDs to that date.

Deranged & Decomposed (Les Disques Du Crepuscule - 1989)

The Jazz Passengers

This second CD is a complete band work which clearly defined the compositional and performance ideas of the band.

Broken Night/Red Light (Les Disques Du Crepuscule - 1987)

The Jazz Passengers

This was the bands first CD. It an exhuberant CD which started as a duo project of Nathanson and Fowlkes. By the cds completion, most of the present members were added to comprise the beginning of the signature Passengers sound.

Long and Skinny (Knitting Factory Records - 1990)

The Club Bird All-Stars

This was the Bill Ware's first CD. It received a hearty 4.5 stars in Downbeat Magazine. Featured soloists include Bill's former Groove Collective bandmates Jay Rodriguez(saxophones) and Josh Roseman(trombone)Recorded at the old Knitting Factory on East Houston

Vibes (Knitting Factory Records - 1997)

Vibes

After 6 years as the rhythm section for the JP's Bill, Brad, and EJ needed a forum to cut loose from the tightly composed arrangements under Roy's control. They found their outlet in The Knitting Factory's Tap Bar. It was there the trio put together and recorded live the material on this CD.If you like live (not in a studio) recording, this CD's for you!

With Drawn (Knitting Factory Records - 1999)

Vibes

This disk is the trios second effort and their first studio recording. "seems like a pretty stripped-down lineup, but they create a far greater variety of timbres and textures, because Ware uses four mallets, enabling him to play chords, and employs electronic effects that allow him to approximate the sound of an electric guitarist or organist...The improvising here is outstanding..." Harvey Pekar The Austin Chronicle

Liebe Tunina (Knitting Factory Records - 2000)

Vibes

Liebe Tunina is the third release by the trio known as Vibes "...There's a certain intimacy and restraint to the band's sound, even as it purveys hip-hop sonic references (Dark Alleys), rock-inspired grooves (Stray Dogs, Doesn't Anybody), straight-up funk (BQB), and driving Latin (Laugh Over Me). Ware continues to display a fascination with the music of Hank Mobley (Ultra Marine) and Bill Withers (I Want to Spend the Night)..."David R. Adler, All Music Guide

Four (Knitting Factory Records - 2001)

Vibes

This is Vibes final effort on Knitting Factory Records. The trio expand their sound to include guest appearances by Blondie's Deborah Harry (Me and You)and Groove Collectives' Chris Theberge (percussion). Also there is a string quartet accompanying the boys on several cuts. Debby and Bill croon a co-written tune together in classic male female duet style. There's something for everyone here!

Keepin' Up with the Jones' (Cathexis Records - 2000)

Y2K Jazz Quartet

If you like your jazz "straight ahead" but all original, this CD is for you. This is Bill Ware's best post-bop effort as a leader to date. Using the instrumentation of the MJQ as a model, Ware formed this groups' sound. But no classicalesq gentilisms here! Ware and Crayford burn down solos over the fiery all Jones rhythm section. The skinny on the recording of this disk goes like this;the all the original tunes were first seen at the studio, on the day of the recording. They rehearsed one time, then took the first take.(With the exception of Crayfords "Off the Hook" which took 3 takes).

Sir Duke (What's New - 2001)

Bill Ware Marc Ribot Duo

Sir Duke pairs Ware with fellow Jazz Passenger and sessioneer to the stars Marc Ribot, for a set of duets from the Ellington songbook, and the feel is relaxed, unfussy and intimate; more the results of an after-hours jam than a carefully planned session...Ribot's playing has some of Kenny Burrell's bluesiness coupled with the harmonic curiosity of Jim Hall, though he opts for a thinner, sharper tone than the average jazz guitarist which sits sweetly with Ware's crystalline chording... Peter Marsh

Uncivilized Poise (Knitting Factory Records - 1999)

AKA Alias

POURING MY HEART IN (Senoj Music - 2002)

Brad Jones Quartet

An acoustic yet modern jazz setting beautifully executed by four extremely gifted musicians
Brad Jones is amongst the most in-demand bassists from the downtown network, having worked with an immense amount of great musicians from Muhal Richard Abrams to the Jazz Passengers to Dave Douglas to Marc Ribot. This is his second release as a leader and it is quite a fine quartet date. Brad wrote all but three of eight pieces with well chosen covers by Monk and Ornette...All in all, a great offering from a fine bassist and composer.

A MUSICAL OFFERING (WollanWare Music - 2001)

Orchestra Wollan Ware

Cellist Sara Wollan joins Bill Ware and Curtis, Roy , Brad, E.J., and others for some classical music mixed with free improvisation. "The works of Wagner, Brahms Tchaikovsky, and Bach are played in somewhat humorous manner with a faint hint of ... seriousness.... The selections are mainly ensemble
exercises with soloists rising to the fore throughout.Vibist Ware
sprinkles droplets of dew on the classic pieces, Wollan adds the spirited cello scenarios, and the brass and woodwinds do their tongue-in-cheek interpretation of the historic compositions.... The recording is a simulation of what music could have sounded like centuries ago if the concepts of Jazz had been around at the time....one can have great fun with it if it is taken in the spirit intended." ....Frank Rubolino...Cadence January 2003

Bach Set (WollanWare Music - 2005)

Bill Ware-Sara Wollan

"Bach Set" presents a bouquet of musical forms and styles, seamlessly juxtaposed. With special guest vocalists David Cale, making his CD debut on the Mexican- folk- style "Hojas" by Sara Wollan, and sultry DK Dyson on the classic Motown "Salty Tears". This CD includes a rousing arrangement of "My Lord, What a Mourning" and Bill Ware's original, brilliant chamber symphony "Das Juengste Kind", all placed alongside cello-sax renditions of J.S. Bach keyboard standards, and contemporary interludes integrating motifs from Bill Ware's chamber symphony piece.

Featuring: Roy Nathanson, Brad Jones, Curtis Fowlkes, David Wechsler, E.J. Rodriguez, Russ Johnson, Tommaso Cappellato, Victoria Paterson, and Sam Bardfeld.