WNUR Jazz Report, 4/1/96

GENERAL COMMENTS

• Glenn Good's interview with David S. Ware, which we broadcast on March 18th, has been transcribed and posted on the WNUR JazzWeb at http://www.wnur.org/jazz/artists/ware.david/.
• We will return to broadcasting interviews soon. We are in a transitional phase this quarter with Matt Aron replacing Josh Guthman as jazz producer, and Seth Tisue replacing Jim Zanghi as jazz music director. We plan to air interviews with Myra Melford and Dave Douglas as part of an ongoing HatART interview series. We also hope to air interviews with Fred Anderson, Ernest Dawkins, and Ari Brown.

NEW MUSIC COMMENTS

• The new Fred Anderson CD features one duet with drummer Hamid Drake as well as three quartet tracks with Drake, Jim Baker, and Harrison Bankhead. (Jim Baker is a member of several of Ken Vandermark's groups including Caffeine and Steam; Bankhead is known for his work with 8 Bold Souls.) The trio of Anderson, Bankhead, and Drake played a fantastic concert last week at the Empty Bottle in celebration both of the release of the CD and of Fred's 67th birthday.
• Reeds player Hans Koch is known to WNUR listeners from the Donat Fisch Quartet CD that got so much airplay this spring, as well as older recordings like a solo disc on Intakt. His new CD with Martin Schutz and Fredy Studer, Hardcore Chambermusic features a combination of free improvisation and plunderphonics: samples of records popular and obscure, old and new are used throughout.
• Guitarist Steve Ramsdell has been gigging around Chicago for some time now; his new CD is self-released and features Tim Mulvenna, the drummer from Steam and the Vandermark Five.
• The Frank Morgan disc is a 1995 release featuring Billy Higgins. Morgan will be in town this month at the newly reopened Jazz Showcase (59 W. Grand).
• Larry Ochs's disc is a long composed/improvised suite performed by a group including all of the ROVA saxophone quartet, of which Ochs is a member, as well as Barry Guy, William Winant, Chris Brown, and others.
• The Paul Rutherford/Paul Rogers CD is one of a new batch of releases from Emanem (watch this space for more in coming weeks). This disc contains previously unreleased recordings from the 1980's by the English trombone/bass duo.
• Project W's debut CD is fine free jazz/improv in a Parker-Guy-Lytton vein. Their label, Apraxia, also puts out albums by the improv group Blowhole featuring trumpeter Ernst Long, a recent transplant to Chicago.

ADDS THIS WEEK

<New releases>

• Fred Anderson: Birdhouse (OkkaDisc)
• Anthony Braxton: 2 Compositions (Jarvenpaa) 1988 (Leo)
• Clare Fischer: Just Me (Concord)
• Chico Freeman: Still Sensitive (India Navigation)
• Golia/Leandre/Filiano: Haunting the Spirits Inside Them (Music & Arts)
• Charlie Haden Quartet West: Now is the Hour (Gitanes)
• Jurg Hager: Music for Soprano Solo (Unit)
• Herbie Hancock: The New Standard (Verve)
• Hino/Kikuchi Quintet: Acoustic Boogie (Blue Note)
• Pigpen: Live in Poland (Cavity Search)
• Koch/Schutz/Studer: Hardcore Chambermusic (Intakt)
• Frank Morgan: Love, Lost & Found (Telarc)
• Larry Ochs: The Secret Magritte (Black Saint)
• Junko Onishi: Piano Quintet Suite (Blue Note)
• Pino Minafra: Sudori (Victo)
• Prima Materia: Meditations (Knitting Factory)
• Project W: Project W (Apraxia)
• Steve Ramsdell Group: Steve Ramsdell Group (SRM)
• Roots: Saying Something (In + Out)
• Paul Rutherford & Paul Rogers: Rogues (Emanem)

<New reissues>

• Donald Byrd: Electric Byrd (Blue Note)
• Pharoah Sanders: Welcome to Love (Evidence)
• Zoot Sims Quartet: That Old Feeling (Chess)

<Not new, but new to WNUR>

• Kenny Dorham: Una Mas (One More Time) (Blue Note)
• Darrell Katz: Dreamland (Cadence Jazz)
• Gil Scott-Heron: Pieces of a Man (RCA)

JAZZ SHOW TOP 25

* denotes reissue, @ denotes not real new.

1. Fred Anderson: Birdhouse (OkkaDisc)
2. Muhal Richard Abrams: Think All, Focus One (Black Saint)
3. Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet: Box (New World)
4. NRG Ensemble: This Is My House (Delmark)
5. Guillermo Gregorio: Approximately (hat ART)
6. Alexander/Halliday: Stablemates (Delmark)
7. John Patton: Memphis to New York Spirit (Blue Note)
8. Ari Brown: Ultimate Frontier (Delmark)
9. Gerry Hemingway: Acoustic Solo Works 1983-94 (Random Acoustics)
10. various*: Rare Grooves (Blue Note)
11. David S. Ware: Dao (Homestead)
12. Horace Tapscott: Aiee! The Phantom (Arabesque)
13. Roy Campbell: Communion (Silkheart)
14. Double Jeu Trio: Actual Stories (Unit)
15. Joe Maneri Quartet: Let the Horse Go (Leo)
16. Joe Lovano: Quartets (Blue Note)
17. Sonny Rollins: Plus 3 (Milestone)
18. Roy Haynes: Out of the Afternoon (Impulse)
19. Thomas Chapin Trio: Menagerie Dreams (Knitting Factory)
20. The Sort of Quartet: Kiss Me Twice I'm Schitzo (SST)
21. Lester Young*: The Complete Aladdin Recordings (Blue Note)
22. Namchylak/Rothenberg: Amulet (Leo)
23. Myth-Science: Love in Outer Space (Knitting Factory)
24. Steve Lacy: Actuality (Cavity Search)
25. Byard Lancaster: My Pure Joy (Black Fire)

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