WNUR Jazz Report, 3/4/96

Comments

• The long-promised new album by one of Chicago's finest groups, the NRG Ensemble is finally out! The album is called This Is My House and it's on Delmark Records, a label that's had a great track record lately of releasing albums by Chicago-based jazz artists like Jodie Christian, the Ritual Trio, Malachi Thompson, and Roscoe Mitchell. The record release party will be at the Bop Shop this Friday.
• The Lee Konitz CD with Don Friedman and Attila Zoller is fine chamber jazz in the tradition of Jimmy Giuffre.
• Ron Anderson is the guitarist for the Bay Area band the Molecules. This disc will be added to new rock, but will probably get crossover airplay on both our jazz and rock formats.
• The Allen Farnham CD is part of a regular series of piano albums recorded live at Maybeck Recital Hall and released on Concord. Flavian Wallis often features these discs on his show, Fridays 9:30-12:30.
• The Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet is an all-female band consisting of 4 saxophonists and 1 drummer. Billy Tipton was a big band musician who disguised herself as a man for nearly 50 years in order to survive in a male dominated era.

Adds this week

New releases

• NRG Ensemble: This Is My House (Delmark)
• Cyrus Chestnut Trio: Another Direction (Evidence)
• Konitz/Friedman/Zoller: Thingin (HatART)
• Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet: Box (New World)
• Joe Sample: Old Places Old Faces (Warner Bros)
• Dale Fielder Quartet: Dear Sir (Tribute to Wayne Shorter) (Clarion Jazz)
• Benny Carter: Songbook (Musicmasters)
• Ron Anderson: Pack Small Are Half Inch (Rastascan)
• Allen Farnham: At Maybeck (Concord)
• Jane Ira Bloom: The Nearness (Arabesque)
• Shirley Horn: The Main Ingredient (Verve)

New reissues

• Duke Ellington: Meets Coleman Hawkins (Impulse!)
• Eckstine/Turner/Otis: Completer Disc (Savoy)
• Earl Hines: Plays Cole Porter (New World)
• Lonnie Smith: Move Your Hand (Blue Note)

Not new, but new to WNUR

• Cecil Taylor: Fondation Maeght Nights (3 CD's) (Jazz View)
• Eric Dolphy & Booker Little: Memorial Album (OJC)

Jazz Show top 25

* denotes reissue, @ denotes not real new

1. David S. Ware: Dao (Homestead)
2. Miriodor: Jongleries Elastiques (Cuneiform)
3. Horace Tapscott: Aiee! The Phantom (Arabesque)
4. Anthony Braxton@: Oakland July 1993 (Music & Arts)
5. Monty Alexander: At Maybeck (Concord)
6. Jim Hobbs Fully Celebrated Orchestra: Peace and Pig Grease (Silkheart)
7. Masada: Vav (DIW)
8. Duke Ellington: Cornell University (MusicMasters)
9. Crothers/Mancuso@: Deep Into the Center (New Artists)
10. Byard Lancaster: My Pure Joy (Black Fire)
11. Lester Young*: The Complete Aladdin Recordings (Blue Note)
12. Cindy Blackman: The Oracle (Muse)
13. Roy Campbell: Communion (Silkheart)
14. Splatter Trio: Hi-Fi Junk Note (Rastascan)
15. Joe Lovano: Quartets (Blue Note)
16. Curlew: Paradise (Cuneiform)
17. Jasper van't Hof: Face to Face (Intuition)
18. Butch Morris: Testament: A Conduction Collection (10 CD's) (New World)
19. Vijay Iyer: Memorophilia (Asian Improv)
20. Steuart Liebig: Quartetto Stig: Lingua Oscura (9 Winds)
21. Marc Ribot: Don't Blame Me (DIW)
22. various: The Colossal Saxophone Sessions (Evidence)
23. Jean-Francois Bovard: Flibuste (Unit)
24. Donat Fisch Quartet: Intervals and Melodies (Unit)
25. Graewe/Reijseger/Hemingway@: Flex 27 (Random Acoustics)

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