WNUR Jazz Report, 3/18/96

COMMENTS

• This week we'll be broadcasting portions of a recent interview with NYC tenor saxophonist David S. Ware conducted last week by Glenn Good. Tune in Monday, March 18, at 10 am. This interview coincides with his Mar. 22 visit to Chicago at the Empty Bottle. This show will feature his quartet: William Parker, bass; Matthew Shipp, piano; Whit Dickey, drums.
• We'll also re-broadcast last week's interview with percussionist Gerry Hemingway. This is part of a long-going series of interviews of artists on the Swiss HatART record label. Most of the interviews we keep mentioning will be transcribed and available for you on the Web. Details to follow.
• Steve Grismore and Paul Scea of the Grismore/Scea Group were at the Bop Shop this past Friday doing a live show with Chicagoans Damon Short, Ryan Shultz, and Noel Kupersmith.
• United Nations of Messidor is a double CD compilation of Latin music on the German label.
• The reissue of Hamiet Bluiett's Birthright, a 1977 live solo baritone sax recording, is among the first in a new reissue series from India Navigation, a label that released many great records out of the late 70's New York free jazz scene but has been long dormant. Here's hoping they do lots more reissues.
• Matt Turner plays cello and piano and will be in Chicago performing as a member of the Scott Fields Trio at the Empty Bottle on March 20th. Infiltrator is on Fields' label, Geode.
• Gerry Hemingway gave an excellent and well attended solo percussion concert last week at the Empty Bottle. His two new solo CD's on Random Acoustics are so new that Hemingway himself only received his first copies five minutes before flying to Chicago! "Tyrolienne", off the acoustic CD, particularly wowed the Chicago audience.
• Sonny Rollins' eagerly awaited new disc on Milestone finds him working with in two different piano-bass-drums quartets in an acoustic format. Jack DeJohnette, Bob Cranshaw, and others appear.
• We'll be adding more new releases next week on the Knitting Factory, Unit, and Leo labels.

ADDS THIS WEEK

<New releases>

• Thomas Chapin Trio: Menagerie Dreams (Knitting Factory)
• Double Jeu Trio: Actual Stories (Unit)
• Gerry Hemingway: Electroacoustic Solo Works 1984-95 (Random Acoustics)
• Gerry Hemingway: Acoustic Solo Works 1983-94 (Random Acoustics)
• Joe Maneri Quartet: Let the Horse Go (Leo)
• Plunge: Falling With Grace (Accurate)
• Sonny Rollins: Plus 3 (Milestone)
• The Sort of Quartet: Kiss Me Twice I'm Schitzo (SST)
• Matt Turner: Infiltrator (Geode)
• various: Fujitsu-Concord 27th Jazz Festival (Concord)
• various: United Nations of Messidor (Messidor)

<New reissues>

• Hamiet Bluiett: Birthright (India Navigation)
• Miles Davis: Ballads & Blues (Blue Note)
• Duke Pearson: I Don't Care Who Knows It (Blue Note Rare Groove)

<Not new, but new to WNUR>

• Grismore/Scea Group: Just Play (Accurate)
• Shelly Manne: 2 3 4 (Impulse)
• Charlie Mingus: Live at Birdland 1962 (Jazz View)

JAZZ SHOW TOP 25

* denotes reissue, @ denotes not real new.

1. Ari Brown: Ultimate Frontier (Delmark)
2. Steve Lacy: Actuality (Cavity Search)
3. NRG Ensemble: This Is My House (Delmark)
4. Horace Tapscott: Aiee! The Phantom (Arabesque)
5. Joe Lovano: Quartets (Blue Note)
6. Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet: Box (New World)
7. Konitz/Friedman/Zoller: Thingin (HatART)
8. David S. Ware: Dao (Homestead)
9. Roy Campbell: Communion (Silkheart)
10. Splatter Trio: Hi-Fi Junk Note (Rastascan)
11. Butch Morris: Testament: A Conduction Collection (New World)
12. Curlew: Paradise (Cuneiform)
13. Byard Lancaster: My Pure Joy (Black Fire)
14. Randy Weston: Saga (Verve/Gitanes)
15. The Far East Side Band: Urban Archaeology (VICTO)
16. Jane Ira Bloom: The Nearness (Arabesque)
17. Fred Hersch: Point in Time (Enja)
18. Cecil Brooks III: Smokin' Jazz (Muse)
19. Jeff Silvertrust Quintet: Plasma Transfusion (Bulldozers from Jupiter)
20. various*: Rare Grooves (Blue Note)
21. Miriodor: Jongleries Elastiques (Cuneiform)
22. Charlie Kohlhase Quintet: Good Deeds (Accurate)
23. Masada: Vav (DIW)
24. Butcher/Durant/Russell: Concert Moves (Random Acoustics)
25. Fats Waller & His Rhythms*: The Early Years (Part 2) (Bluebird)

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