WNUR Jazz Report, 1/8/96

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

Adds this week

Classified by Jim's fake sub-genres.

New releases

• European Improv, mostly:
  • Bailey/Zorn/Parker: Harras (Avant)
  • Graewe/Reijseger/Hemingway: Flex 27 (Random Acoustics)
  • Sa Zna: CA 3HA Into Oberland (Leo Lab)
• American or Canadian Improv, or at least leaning that way:
  • Houle/Crispell: any Terrain Tumultuous (Red Toucan)
  • Rene Lussier & Now Orchestra: Le tour du bloc (Victo)
  • Mark Dresser: Force Green (Soul Note)
  • William Parker: In Order to Survive (Black Saint)
• New jazz, whatever that is:
  • Jim Hobbs Fully Celebrated Orchestra: Peace and Pig Grease (Silkheart)
  • Steuart Liebig: Quartetto Stig: Lingua Oscura (9 Winds)
  • Donat Fisch Quartet: Intervals and Melodies (Unit)
• Awesome/Semi-Local:
  • Borah Bergman w/Hamid Drake: Reflections on Ornette Coleman and THE STONE HOUSE (Soul Note)
• Mainstream Jazz, more or less:
  • Bley/Spanier/McDonald: Know Time (Justin Time)
  • Dave Bargeron Quartet: Barge Burns...Slide Flies (Mapleshade)
  • Either/Orchestra: Dial "E" (Accurate)
• That tough to classify Zorn-like stuff:
  • Erik Friedlander: Chimera (Avant)
  • Yuji Takahashi: Finger Light (Tzadik)
• Klezmer jazz!:
  • Masada: Hei (Five) (DIW)
• Guitarmania:
  • Les 4 Guitaristes de L'Apocalypso-Bar: World Tour 1998 (ReR)
  • Marc Ribot: Don't Blame Me (DIW)

New reissues

• Classic bebop/traditional, etc:
  • Bechet/Carey/Hall/Pollack: Giants of Traditional Jazz (Savoy)
  • Hal McKusick: Now's the Time (Decca)
  • Lee Morgan: The Procrastinator (Blue Note)
  • Wayne Shorter: The Soothsayer (Blue Note)
• free jazz/noise/monstrous/wonderful (1981 recording):
  • Borbetomagus: Borbetomagus (Agaric)
• Spoken word:
  • Ken Nordine: Colors (Asphodel)

Not new

• Classic bebop/traditional, etc:
  • Art Blakey: Indestructible (Blue Note)
  • Billie Holiday: Volume 3 1934-1937 Complete (Media 7)
  • Gene Ammons: Live! in Chicago (Prestige)
  • Miles Davis: Bitches Brew (Columbia)
  • Roland Kirk with Jack McDuff: Kirk's Work (Prestige)
• Free jazz/improv:
  • Parker/Rutherford/Guy/Stevens: 4,4,4,4 (Konnex)
  • Matthew Shipp Trio: Circular Temple (Infinite Zero)
  • Hans Reichel: The Dawn of Dachsman...Plus (FMP)
  • Schlippenbach & Murray: Smoke (FMP)
  • The Cecil Taylor Quartet: Looking Ahead! (Contemporary)
  • Third Person: The Bends (KFW)
• WNUR Jazz Show's Spiritual Leader:
  • Sun Ra: Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, v.1 (ESP)
  • Sun Ra: Nothing Is... (ESP)
  • Sun Ra Arkestra: Fondation Maeght Nights, V.1 (Jazz View)
  • Sun Ra Arkestra: Fondation Maeght Nights, V.2 (Jazz View)

Jazz Show top 50

This is the top 50 releases based on collective airplay by the 20+ jazz DJ's for the month of December. Reports faxed to CMJ and local record stores.

* denotes new reissue, @ denotes not new.

1. Ernest Dawkins New Horizons Ensemble: Chicago Now - Thirty Years of Great Black Music (Silkheart)
2. Big John Patton: Blue Planet Man (Evidence)
3. Anderson/Bennink/Doran: Cheer Up (hat ART)
4. Hamiet Bluiett Sextet: Young Warrior, Old Warrior (Mapleshade)
5. Mary Lou Williams*: Zodiac Suit (Smithsonian)
6. Pharoah Sanders*: Karma (Impulse!)
7. Derek Bailey*: Domestic & Public Pieces (Emanem)
8. Reggie Workman: Cerebral Caverns (Postcards)
9. Spontaneous Music Ensemble: Summer 1967 (Emanem)
10. Ornette Coleman & Prime Time: Tone Dialing (Harmolodic/Verv)
11. Wadud/Hemphill@: Oakland Duets (Music & Arts)
12. Lou Donaldson*: Sunny Side Up (Blue Note)
13. VolApuk: le feu du tigre (Cuneiform)
14. Arthur Doyle: The Songwriter (Ecstatic Peace)
15. Gerry Mulligan Quintet: Dragonfly (Telarc)
16. Douglas Ewart: Bamboo Meditations (Arawak)
17. William Parker: Testimony (zero in)
18. Sun Ra & Intergalaxtic Arkestra: Second Star to the Right (Leo)
19. Adzinyah/Braxton: Duo (Wesleyan) (Leo)
20. Dave Douglas' Tiny Bell Trio: Constellations (hat ART)
21. Braxton/Pavone Quintet: Seven Standards 1995 (KFN)
22. John Coltrane*: Sun Ship (Impulse)
23. Evan Parker: Saxophone Solos (Chronoscope)
24. Duke Ellington*: Live at the Whitney (Impulse!)
25. Michael Stevens & Mark Feldman: Haiku (Leo Records)
26. Mary Lou Williams*: Zoning (Smithsonian F)
27. Reed Robins: Songs of Jimi Hendrix for Solo J (Changing Tones)
28. Sasajima/Carter: Akioustically Sound (Muse)
29. Joane Hetu: Castor et compagnie (dAME)
30. Dick Hyman: The Great American Songbook (MusicMasters)
31. Ebony Brass Quintet: Brand New Bag (Mapleshade)
32. John Coltrane Quartet*: The Complete Africa/Brass Sessions (Impulse)
33. John Zorn: Locus Solus (Tzadik)
34. Steve Lacy: Weal & Woe (Emanem)
35. James Moody Quartet: Moody's Party (Telarc)
36. Evan Parker & Barry Guy: Obliquities (Maya Recordings)
37. Mark Harvey & Aardvark Orch: Paintings For Jazz Orchestra (Leo Lab)
38. XIII Ghosts (Ward/Switch): Giganti Reptilicus Destructo Beam (Scatter)
39. Bergman/Mitchell/Buckner: First Meeting (KFW)
40. Art Farmer: The Meaning of Art (Arabesque)
41. Alan Broadbent Trio: Pacific Standard Time (Concord)
42. Steve Kuhn: Seasons of Romance (Postcards)
43. BDeems/MThompson/I.Williams: Jazz Masters 1995 (Arts Midwest)
44. Jeff Gauthier: Internal Memo (9 Winds)
45. Charnett Moffett: Planet Home (Evidence)
46. Trudy Silver: Silver Plays (Stork)
47. Gerry Hemingway: Slamadam (RandomAcoustics)
48. John Tchicai & the Archtypes: Love is Touching (X-Talk)
49. John Zorn: Kristallnacht (Tzadik)
50. John Scofield: Groove Elation! (Blue Note)

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