WNUR Jazz Report, 1/29/96

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

Comments

• In last week's special report, I listed the Jazz Show's favorite 40 of 1995. Beginning Monday, 1/29/96, WNUR's jazz show will feature the top 10 on this list over the next 2 weeks by focusing on one CD per day, beginning with #10 on Monday and counting down to #1 on the following Friday. Should be fun.
• A few very brief comments about the new music. 1) I really dig the new Wallace Roney CD. Outstanding rhythm section backing him up 2) Mick Karn isn't exactly jazz. It's going into our "crossover drawer" where music not belonging to a distinct genre is kept. 3) Psychedelic Steppenwolves is strictly spoken word with a jazz background 4) Francis Wong's CD features local musicians Tatsu Aoki and Bradley Parker Sparrow. 5) Art Blakey CD is a new reissue.

Adds this week

New releases

• Joanne Brackeen Quartet: Turnaround (Evidence)
• Various: Red Records Sampler (Red)
• Mark Elf Trio: Mark Elf Trio (Alerce)
• Andy Fite: Solo Guitar (New Artists)
• Richard Hindman Trio: Once I Loved (Lake Street)
• Glenn Horiuchi: Calling Is It and Now (Soul Note)
• Mick Karn: The Tooth Mother (CMP)
• McGriff/Crawford: Blues Groove (Telarc)
• Psychedelic Steppenwolves: Psychedelic Steppenwolves (Hands On)
• Wallace Roney Quintet: Wallace Roney Quintet (Warner)
• Rosetta: Lune Rousse (Unit)
• Francis Wong: Chicago Time Code (Asian Improv)

New reissues

• Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers: Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers (Impulse!)

Not new, but new to WNUR

• Marilyn Crispell Trio: Highlights from the Summer of1992 (Music & Arts)
• Thelonious Monk: Monk's Blues (Columbia)
• Thelonious Monk: Monk's Music (Riverside)
• Wes Montgomery: Boss Guitar (Riverside)

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 29, 1996. List faxed to CMJ and local record stores.

* denotes new reissue, @ denotes not new.

1. Masada: Vav (6) (DIW)
2. Bergman w/Hamid Drake: Reflections on Ornette Coleman and THE STONE HOUSE (Soul Note)
3. Ernest Dawkins New Horizons Ensemble: Chicago Now - Thirty Years of Great Black Music (Silkheart)
4. Ellington & Coltrane*: Ellington & Coltrane (Impulse!)
5. Masada: Hei (5) (DIW)
6. Mark Dresser: Force Green (Soul Note)
7. Anderson/Bennink/Doran: Cheer Up (hat ART)
8. Jim Hobbs Fully Celebrated Orchestra: Peace and Pig Grease (Silkheart)
9. Louis Armstrong*: Pocketful of Dreams (Decca)
10. Donat Fisch Quartet: Intervals and Melodies (Unit)
11. Houle/Crispell: any Terrain Tumultuous (Red Toucan)
12. Graewe/Reijseger/Hemingway: Flex 27 (Random Acoustics)
13. Butcher/Durant/Russell: Concert Moves (Random Acoustics)
14. Beth Custer: The Shirt I Slept In (independent)
15. Mathew Shipp Trio: Circular Temple (Infinite Zero)
16. Joe Morris: No Vertigo (Leo)
17. Spontaneous Music Ensemble*: Face to Face 1973 (Emanem)
18. Trudy Silver: Silver Plays (Stork)
19. Polwechsel (Dafeldecker/Moser): Polwechsel (Random Acoustics)
20. Randy Weston: Saga (Verve/Gitanes)
21. Tina Brooks*: True Blue (Blue Note)
22. Don Pullen: Sacred Common Ground (Blue Note)
23. Ebony Brass Quintet: Brand New Bag (Mapleshade)
24. William Parker: In Order to Survive (Black Saint)
25. Gerry Hemingway: Slamadam (Random Acoustics)

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