WNUR Jazz Report, 1/22/96

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

Comments

• Consult Seth Tisue's New Music Live Web site for all cool Chicago happenings: http://www.cs.nwu.edu/~tisue/shows.html. Highlights:
  • Tonight, 1/25/96, is the debut of the Vandermark 5 (Ken, Kent Kessler, Hamid Drake, Mars Williams, & Jeb Bishop) at the Lunar Cabaret. It's a double billing with the northside debut of Mars Williams' Witches & Devils, a local band dedicated to the music of Albert Ayler (my hero).
  • JIC Jazz Fair, 1/29/96, at the Bismarck Hotel. WNUR will be represented and selling T-shirts designed by none other than Evanstonian cartoonist Lynda Barry.
• For you early birds & jazz poets: DJ Nicole Demetriou (Fridays, 5-7 AM) has been focusing the first hour of her show on the words, be they vocals, spoken, or read by herself, of great old and new jazz artists. Includes highlights from interviews, but mostly it will focus on words within the music itself. Some artists include Gil Scott-Heron, Ken Nordine, Last Poets, and of course the great oldies of Ella/Louis Armstrong, as well as any chanting/ensembles/etc, eg. Don Pullen's Sacred Common Ground. Suggestions (and materials to borrow) are definitely welcome. Send email to Nicole directly at nicoled@merle.acns.nwu.edu.
• HatART Interview Series: This underrated Swiss label has produced some popular music among our DJ's, so we're doing a fairly ambitious interview project over the next few months. We'll tentatively feature 8 artists appearing on recent HatART CD releases, with one interview per week. Some will be live, others prerecorded phone interviews. DJ interviewers in parentheses: Anthony Braxton (John Corbett), Guillermo Gregorio (Corbett), Joe McPhee (Corbett), Han Benink (Andrew Choate), Gerry Hemingway (Seth Tisue), & maybe Ray Anderson, Myra Melford, Dave Douglas, and/or Christy Doran. At some point, all of the interviews will be transcribed and available to all on the WNUR Jazz Web.

Adds this week

New releases

• various: The Colossal Saxophone Sessions (Evidence)
• Billy Harper: Somalia (Evidence)
• Lee Konitz: Round & Round (MusicMasters)
• Butch Morris: Testament: A Conduction Collection (10 CD's plus book) (New World)
• Snake Eyes: Pair A' Dice (Random Acoustics)
• Ron Surface: The New Cool (Southport)
• The Far East Side Band: Urban Archaeology (VICTO)

New reissues

• Betty O'Hara: Horns Aplenty (Delmark)
• Jelly Roll Morton: Birth of the Hot (Bluebird)
• Freddie Hubbard: The Artistry of Freddie Hubbard (Impulse!)
• Wayne Shorter: Et Cetera (Blue Note)
• Billie Holiday: Music for Torching (Verve)
• various: The History of Chess Jazz (Chess/MCA)

Not new, but new to WNUR

• Matthew Shipp Quartet: Critical Mass (213CD)
• Vijay Iyer: Memorophilia (Asian Improv)
• Clifford Jordan: Live at Ethell's (Mapleshade)
• Richard Tabnik Quartet: Life at the Core (New Artists)
• Crothers-Popkin Quartet: In Motion (New Artists)

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 22, 1996. List faxed to CMJ and local record stores.

* denotes new reissue, @ denotes not new.

1. Randy Weston: Saga (Verve/Gitanes)
2. Don Pullen: Sacred Common Ground (Blue Note)
3. Masada: Vav (6) (DIW)
4. Tina Brooks*: True Blue (Blue Note)
5. Masada: Hei (5) (DIW)
6. Borah Bergman w/Hamid Drake: Reflections on Ornette Coleman and THE STONE HOUSE (Soul Note)
7. Mark Dresser: Force Green (Soul Note)
8. Ebony Brass Quintet: Brand New Bag (Mapleshade)
9. Parker/Rutherford/Guy/Stevens: 4,4,4, (Konnex)
10. William Parker: In Order to Survive (Black Saint)
11. Douglas Ewart: Bamboo Meditations (Arawak)
12. Gerry Hemingway: Slamadam (Random Acoustics)
13. Anderson/Bennink/Doran: Cheer Up (hat ART)
14. Bailey/Zorn/Parker: Harras (Avant)
15. Jim Hobbs Fully Celebrated Orchestra: Peace and Pig Grease (Silkheart)
16. Sun Ra & His Intergalaxtic Arkestra: Second Star to the Right (Leo)
17. Derek Bailey: Domestic & Public Pieces (Emanem)
18. Lou Donaldson: * Sunny Side Up (Blue Note)
19. Louis Armstrong*: Pocketful of Dreams (Decca)
20. Ron Carter: Mr. Bow Tie (Blue Note)
21. Joe Lovano Wind Ensemble: Worlds (Evidence)
22. Donal Fox/David Murray: Ugly Beauty (Evidence)
23. Ken Nordine*: Colors (Asphodel)
24. Either/Orchestra: Dial "E" (Accurate)
25. Donat Fisch Quartet: Intervals and Melodies (Unit)

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