WNUR Jazz Report, 2/5/96

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

Adds this week

New releases

!! = stuff I really dig, # = local artists

• Pucho Brown: Rip a Dip (Milestone)
• Henry Butler: For All Seasons (Atlantic)
• Crothers/Mancuso: Deep Into the Center (New Artists) !!
• Denise Jannah: I Was Born in Love With You (Blue Note)
• Mocktet: Selections (independent - cassette promo) !! #
• Gonzalo Rubalcaba: Imagine (Blue Note)
• Saluzzi/Cox/Friedman: Rios (Intuition) !!
• Norris Turney: Big, Sweet n' Blue (Mapleshade)

New reissues

• Dizzy Gillespie: Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac (Impulse!)
• Roy Haynes: Out of the Afternoon (Impulse!)
• Lee Morgan: Delightfulee (Blue Note)

Not new, but new to WNUR

• John Coltrane: Dakar (OJC)
• Sonny Stitt: Kaleidoscope (OJC)
• Roland Kirk: Introducing Roland Kirk (Chess/MCA)

Jazz Show top 25

This is the top 25 releases based on collective airplay by the 20+ jazz DJ's for the week ending February 4, 1996. List faxed to CMJ and local record stores.

* denotes new reissue, @ denotes not new.

1. various: The Colossal Saxophone Sessions (Evidence)
2. Butch Morris: Testament: A Conduction Collection (10 CD's plus book) (New World)
3. Anderson/Bennink/Doran: Cheer Up (hat ART)
4. Joe Morris: No Vertigo (Leo)
5. Chas Burchell: Unsung Hero (In + Out)
6. Billy Harper: Somalia (Evidence)
7. Glenn Horiuchi: Calling Is It and Now (Soul Note)
8. Jim Hobbs Fully Celebrated Orchestra: Peace and Pig Grease (Silkheart)
9. Beth Custer: The Shirt I Slept In (independent)
10. Randy Weston: Saga (Verve/Gitanes)
11. Ken Nordine*: Colors (Asphodel)
12. Joe Lovano Wind Ensemble: Worlds (Evidence)
13. Richard Tabnik Quartet: Life at the Core (New Artists)
14. McGriff/Crawford: Blues Groove (Telarc)
15. Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers*: Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers (Impulse!)
16. Masada: Vav (DIW)
17. Borah Bergman w/Hamid Drake: Reflections on Ornette Coleman and THE STONE HOUSE (Soul Note)
18. Ernest Dawkins New Horizons Ensemble: Chicago Now - Thirty Years of Great Black Music (Silkheart)
19. Ellington & Coltrane: Ellington & Coltrane (Impulse!)
20. Louis Armstrong*: Pocketful of Dreams (Decca)
21. Masada: Hei (Five) (DIW)
22. Donat Fisch Quartet: Intervals and Melodies (Unit)
23. Polwechsel (Dafeldecker/Moser): Polwechsel (Random Acoustics)
24. Don Pullen: Sacred Common Ground (Blue Note)
25. Tina Brooks*: True Blue (Blue Note)

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