WNUR Jazz Report, 10/29/95

89.3 WNUR FM, Chicago's Sound Experiment, broadcasts jazz every weekday from 5:00 am until 12:30 pm.

Adds this week

These are new CD releases unless stated otherwise.

• Bergman/Mitchell/Buckner: First Meeting (KFW)
• Brötzmann/Kondo/Parker/Drake: Die Like a Dog (FMP)
• John Coltrane: Stellar Regions (Impulse!)
• COWWS Quintet: Grooves 'n' Loops (FMP)
• Christy Doran/John Wolf Brennan: Henceforward (Leo Lab)
• Eliane Elias: Solos and Duets (Blue Note)
• Hugh Hopper/Alan Gowen: Two Rainbows Daily (Cuneiform)
• Lacy/Aebi/Rzewski: Packet (New Albion)
• Gerry Mulligan Quintet: Dragonfly (Telarc)
• Jaco Pastorius: The Birthday Concert (Warner)
• Big John Patton: Blue Planet Man (Evidence)
• September Band: The Vandoeuvre Concert (FMP)
• Strange Pursuit: The Zone (Red Hook)
• XIII Ghosts (Ward/Switch): Giganti Reptilicus Destructo Beam (Scatter)

Other adds

Includes new reissues and back issues.

• Bunny Berigan: The Pied Piper 1934-1940 (Bluebird)
• Evan Parker: Process and Reality (FMP)
• Helen Humes/various: Black California vol. 2 (Savoy Jazz)

Comments

• Stellar Regions is all new Coltrane except for one track. Alice Coltrane and son Ravi put this album together. There probably will be more previously unissued Coltrane on the way from Impulse, most of which was recorded in the last 2 years of his life ('66-'67).
• Blue Planet Man features John Zorn on alto sax.
• The September Band, COWWS Quintet, Evan Parker, and Peter Brötzmann will be in town during the FMP Festival next month.
• Strange Pursuit will be in town next month at the Jazz Bulls.
• XIII Ghosts is freaky electronics and samples, 46 tracks on the CD.
• The Steve Lacy album is considerably different from the Revenue album out a few months ago.

Jazz Show top 25

This is the top 25 releases based on collective airplay by the jazz DJ's for the week ending October 29, 1995. The top ten are reported to CMJ. These are new CD releases unless stated otherwise. New reissues are marked with an asterisk.

1. Clusone Trio*: I Am An Indian (Gramavision)
2. Pigpen: Miss Ann (Tim/Kerr)
3. Reggie Workman: Cerebral Caverns (Postcards)
4. Dave Douglas' Tiny Bell Trio: Constellations (hat ART)
5. Andrew Hill: Smokestack (Blue Note)
6. Paul Bley/Evan Parker/Barre Phillips: Time Will Tell (ECM)
7. John Patton*: Blue John (Blue Note)
8. Andrew Hill*: Black Fire (Blue Note)
9. Anthony Braxton & Peter Niklas Wilson: 8 Duets, Hamburg 1991 (Music & Arts)
10. Gold Sparkle Band: Earthmover (Third Eye)
11. Charles McPherson: Come Play With Me (Arabesque)
12. John Coltrane*: Sun Ship (Impulse)
13. Various: Wavelength Infinity: A Sun Ra Tribute (Rastascan)
14. Andrew Cyrille*: Special People (Soul Note)
15. John Zorn: The Book of Heads (Tzadik)
16. Vario-34: Vario-34 (Blue Tower)
17. Die Knödel: Overcooked Tyroleans (Koch)
18. John Stevens/Kent Carter/Derek Bailey: One Time (Incus)
19. Archie Shepp: Fire Music (Impulse!)
20. McCoy Tyner Trio: Infinity (Impulse!)
21. Brad Goode: Brad Goode (Sunlight)
22. Henry Threadgill: Makin' a Move (Columbia)
23. Butcher/Mackness: Respiritus (Incus)
24. Ella Fitzgerald*: The Legendary Decca Recordings (Decca)
25. John Coltrane*: The Heavyweight Champion: The Complete Atlantic Recordings (Atlantic)

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