WNUR Jazz Report, 1/15/96

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

Comments

• David S. Ware's Quartet will be in Chicago at the Empty Bottle on Friday, Mar. 22. I hope my grandma doesn't die that weekend, because I'll have to miss her funeral. This god-like quartet consists of Ware (ts), William Parker (b), Matthew Shipp (p), & Whit Dickey (d). Two Parker and two Shipp CD's are in the jazz rotation.
• The Wednesday jazz series at the Empty Bottle continues through March. Consult Seth Tisue's New Music Live Web site for all cool Chicago happenings: http://www.cs.nwu.edu/~tisue/shows.html.
• Josh & I are planning a Hat Art interview series. Tentatively there will be as many as 8 artists and 4 interviewers. We hope to broadcast one interview per week. Details to follow.
• Rick Wojcik interviewed legendary Chicago jazz singer Oscar Brown, Jr. during his show this week (Wed, 9:30a-12:30p). Rick's the DJ who plays loads of really groovin' records from the '60's and '70's.
• For you early birds, check out Nicole's jazz vocals series on Fridays, 5-6 am. She's focusing on all kinds of vocals from Billie Holiday to Ken Nordine to Lynn Book and beyond.

Adds this week

! = stuff I really dig

New releases

• John Zorn's Cobra: Tokyo Operation '94 (Avant) !
• Ron Carter: Mr. Bow Tie (Blue Note)
• Don Pullen: Sacred Common Ground (Blue Note) !
• Bob Brookmeyer New Quartet: Paris Suite (Challenge)
• Ulrich Lask: Indean Poa (CMP) !
• Masada: Vav (DIW)
• Joe Lovano Wind Ensemble; Worlds (Evidence)
• Donal Fox/David Murray: Ugly Beauty (Evidence) !
• Stevens/Siegel/Ferguson: One of a Kind (Imaginary Jazz)
• Richmond/Jenkins Ensemble: Range (Nine Winds) !
• Earl Howard: Pele's Tears (Random Acoustics) !
• Polwechsel (Dafeldecker/Moser): Polwechsel (Random Acoustics)
• Melvyn Poore: Groundwork (Random Acoustics)
• Randy Weston: Saga (Verve/Gitanes)

New reissues

• Tina Brooks: True Blue (Blue Note)
• Fats Waller & His Rhythms: The Early Years (Part 2) (Bluebird) !
• Eddie Miller/Johnny Varro : Street of Dreams (Delmark)
• Chuck Hedges/Johnny Varro: Skylark (Delmark) !
• Peter Brotzmann Tentet: The Marz Combo (FMP)
• Ellington & Coltrane: Ellington & Coltrane (Impulse!)
• Bobby Battle/David Murray: The Offering (Mapleshade)

Not new, but new to WNUR

• Peter Brotzmann Tentet: The Marz Combo (FMP)
• Bobby Battle/David Murray: The Offering (Mapleshade)

Jazz Show top 25

This is the top 25 releases based on collective airplay by the 20+ jazz DJ's for the week ending January 15, 1996. List faxed to CMJ and local record stores.

* denotes new reissue, @ denotes not new.

1. Masada: Hei (Five) (DIW)
2. Johnny Hodges*: Passion Flower 1940-46 (Bluebird)
3. Mark Dresser: Force Green (Soul Note)
4. Ken Nordine*: Colors (Asphodel)
5. Either/Orchestra: Dial "E" (Accurate)
6. Borah Bergman w/Hamid Drake: Reflections on Ornette Coleman and THE STONE HOUSE (Soul Note)
7. Ebony Brass Quintet: Brand New Bag (Mapleshade)
8. Spontaneous Music Ensemble*: Karyobin (Chronoscope)
9. Donat Fisch Quartet: Intervals and Melodies (Unit)
10. Parker/Rutherford/Guy/Stevens: 4,4,4, (Konnex)
11. Lee Morgan*: The Procrastinator (Blue Note)
12. William Parker: In Order to Survive (Black Saint)
13. Mathew Shipp Trio*: Circular Temple (Infinite Zero)
14. Ernest Dawkins New Horizons Ensemble: Chicago Now - Thirty Years of Great Black Music (Silkheart)
15. Big John Patton: Blue Planet Man (Evidence)
16. Anderson/Bennink/Doran: Cheer Up (hat ART)
17. Hamiet Bluiett Sextet: Young Warrior, Old Warrior (Mapleshade)
18. Mary Lou Williams*: Zodiac Suit (Smithsonian Folkways)
19. Spontaneous Music Ensemble: Summer 1967 (Emanem)
20. Douglas Ewart: Bamboo Meditations (Arawak)
21. William Parker: Testimony (zero in)
22. Steve Lacy: Weal & Woe (Emanem)
23. Gerry Hemingway: Slamadam (Random Acoustics)
24. Axon (Minton/Mattos/Blume): Perceptions (Random Acoustics)
25. Robert Dick: Worlds Of If (Leo)

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