| Passage to Music | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | David S. Ware |
| Cover: | Passage_to_Music.jpg |
| Released: | 1989 |
| Recorded: | April 4 & 5, 1988 |
| Studio: | A&R Recording, New York |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Length: | 48:23 (LP) 69:06 (CD) |
| Label: | Silkheart |
| Producer: | David S. Ware |
| Chronology: | David S. Ware |
| Prev Title: | Birth of a Being |
| Prev Year: | 1979 |
| Next Title: | Great Bliss, Vol. 1 |
| Next Year: | 1991 |
Passage to Music is an album by American jazz saxophonist David S. Ware recorded in 1988 and released on the Swedish Silkheart label. Besides tenor sax Ware plays saxello, a variant of the soprano sax played by English jazz musician Elton Dean, and stritch, a straight alto sax associated with multi-instrumentalist Rahsaan Roland Kirk. The CD edition adds two bonus tracks.[1]
In his review for AllMusic, Scott Yanow states "David Ware's searching improvisations reward repeated listenings by open-eared listeners."The Penguin Guide to Jazz states "Passage To Music has something of Ayler's and Sander's Afro-mysticism and constitutes something of a personal initiation".[2]
All compositions by David S. Ware
6 & 7 does not appear on original LP