WNUR Jazz Report, 2/11/96

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

Comments

• The next jazz music director will be Seth Tisue. For now both of us will be handling the director's duties. You can address email to the both of us at:
  jazz-md@wnur.org
• There are now over 100 people receiving this weekly report by E-mail!! This includes the jazz DJ's, other radio producers, CMJ, musicians, WNUR listeners, record companies, promoters, and of course jazz fans. The top 25 also gets faxed to various local record stores like JRM & Tower.
• If you would like to send us promos or premiums for our upcoming Phonathon fundraiser, address them to:
  Jazz Music Director
  WNUR
  1920 Campus Dr.
  Evanston, IL 60208-2260
• Our new area code is 847. Fax & phone #'s remain the same.

Adds this week

New releases

• Teodross Avery: My Generation (Impulse!)
• Jean-Francois Bovard: Flibuste (Unit)
• Anthony Braxton: Oakland July 1993 (Music&Arts)
• Allan Chase Quartet: Dark Clouds With Silver Linings (Accurate)
• Duke Ellington: Cornell University (MusicMasters)
• Houdinis: Play the Big Five (Challenge)
• Randy Johnston: In A-Chord (Muse)
• Dave Young: Two by Two (Justin Time)
• various: Jazz in the Wilde (live jazz from WWUH) (University of Hartford)

New reissues

• Gary Burton: New Vibe Man in Town (RCA)
• Lou Donaldson: Everything I Play is Funky (Blue Note)
• Marian McPartland: Ambiance (Jazz Alliance)

Not new, but new to WNUR

• Roland Kirk: Three For the Festival (Le Jazz)

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 9, 1996. List faxed to CMJ and local record stores.

* denotes reissue

1. Butch Morris: Testament: A Conduction Collection (10 CD's plus book) (New World)
2. Anderson/Bennink/Doran: Cheer Up (hat ART)
3. Ernest Dawkins New Horizons Ensemble: Chicago Now - Thirty Years of Great Black Music (Silkheart)
4. Masada: Vav (DIW)
5. Donat Fisch Quartet: Intervals and Melodies (Unit)
6. Ebony Brass Quintet: Brand New Bag (Mapleshade)
7. Fats Waller & His Rhythms*: The Early Years (Part 2) (Bluebird)
8. various: The Colossal Saxophone Sessions (Evidence)
9. Jim Hobbs Fully Celebrated Orchestra: Peace and Pig Grease (Silkheart)
10. Polwechsel (Dafeldecker/Moser): Polwechsel (Random Acoustics)
11. Steve Lacy*: Weal & Woe (Emanem)
12. Donal Fox/David Murray: Ugly Beauty (Evidence)
13. Vijay Iyer: Memorophilia (Asian Improv)
14. Mathew Shipp Trio*: Circular Temple (Infinite Zero)
15. Wayne Shorter*: The Soothsayer (Blue Note )
16. Steve Kuhn: Seasons of Romance (Postcards)
17. Hamiet Bluiett Sextet: Young Warrior, Old Warrior (Mapleshade)
18. Marc Ribot: Don't Blame Me (DIW)
19. Roy Haynes: Out of the Afternoon (Impulse)
20. Saluzzi/Cox/Friedman: Rios (Intuition)
21. Crothers/Mancuso: Deep Into the Center (New Artists)
22. Joe Morris: No Vertigo (Leo)
23. Chas Burchell: Unsung Hero (In + Out )
24. Glenn Horiuchi: Calling Is It and Now (Soul Note)
25. Ken Nordine*: Colors (Asphodel)

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