WNUR Jazz Report, 4/9/97

NEWS

• For the next two weeks, April 14-18 and 21-25, we'll be featuring the best jazz albums of 1996 as picked by our DJ's. The winning albums will be featured during 11:00 breaks and throughout the show. A list of the winners will go out in a separate E-mail, or look on the web at http://www.cs.nwu.edu/~tisue/wnur/jazz/reports/best-of-1996.html

ADDS THIS WEEK

[New releases]

[New reissues]

[Not new, but new to our collection]

JAZZ SHOW TOP 25

* denotes reissue, @ denotes not real new.

1. Fred Anderson*: The Missing Link (Nessa)
2. Mingus Big Band: Live in Time (2 CD's) (Dreyfus)
3. Charlie Parker*: Yardbird Suite (2 CD's) (Rhino)
4. Vandermark Five: Single Piece Flow (Atavistic)
5. Ellery Eskelin & Andrea Parkins: Green Bermudas (Eremite)
6. Gregg Bendian: Gregg Bendian's Interzone (Eremite)
7. Ed Blackwell Trio: Walls-Bridges (Black Saint)
8. Benny Carter: New York Nights (MusicMasters)
9. Jimmy McGriff*: Electric Funk (Blue Note)
10. Conrad Herwig@: The Latin Side of John Coltrane (Astor Place)
11. Frank Morgan: Bop! (Telarc)
12. various*: Critics' Pick Sampler Vol. 1 (Black Saint/Soul Note)
13. Anthony Braxton & Brett Larner: 11 Compositions (Duo) 1995 (Leo)
14. Hamid Drake & Michael Zerang: Ask the Sun (OkkaDisk)
15. Pharoah Sanders*: Pharoah (India Navigation)
16. Barrage Double Trio@: Utility Hitter (Quinnah)
17. Assif Tsahar: Shekhina (Eremite)
18. John Zorn Masada Chamber Ensembles@: Bar Kokhba (2 CD's) (Tzadik)
19. John Patton*: Accent on the Blues (Blue Note)
20. Roy Haynes: True or False (Evidence)
21. David Murray@: David Murray/James Newton Quintet (DIW)
22. Coleman Hawkins*: Plays the Blues (Prestige)
23. Earl Hines*: At Home (Delmark)
24. Hamiet Bluiett*: Im/possible to Keep (2 CD's) (India Navigation)
25. Duke Ellington: Cornell University: Second Set (MusicMasters)