WNUR Jazz Report, 6/17/96
Reports compiled by:
Seth Tisue, Jazz Music
Director
jazz-md@wnur.org
(847)
491-7102
Evanston, IL
NEW MUSIC COMMENTS
- My pick of the week is the Barondown disc (actually a 1995
release). Barondown consists of Joey Baron (drums), Steve Swell
(trombone), and recent visitor to Chicago Ellery Eskelin (tenor sax).
They groove hard.
- Two more installments in Leo Records continuing efforts to bring
Russian jazz to the West. The Moscow Composers Orchestra is led by
Vladimir Miller and includes other well known Russian musicians such
as Vladimir Tarasov; on this album they are joined by guest vocalist
Sainkho Namchylak. AMA Jazz ("Association of Musicians of
Avant-Garde") are a newly discovered quartet.
- Christian Wolfarth's new solo percussion disc recalls the work
of Fritz Hauser.
- Urban Reception is a fine new release by local
bassist Tatsu Aoki and drummer Dave Pavkovic and West Coast reeds
player Francis Wong, known for his releases on Asian Improv and Soul
Note. On this disc they play tough-sounding, post-Sonny Rollins
bop/free.
- The New York Classics Big Band disc is the latest in a series of
releases on Mapleshade in a series called "Hamiet Bluiett
Explorations", curated by the great baritone saxophonist.
ADDS THIS WEEK
<New releases>
@ denotes not real new
- Barondown@: Crackshot (Avant)
- Charlie Hunter Quartet: Ready... Set... Shango! (Blue Note)
- Charles Fambrough: City Tribes (Evidence)
- Ron Miles: My Cruel Heart (Gramavision)
- Peter Apfelbaum: Luminous Charms (Gramavision)
- AMA Jazz: In One Breath (Leo)
- Moscow Composers Orchestra: An Italian Love Affair (Leo)
- New York Classics Big Band: New York Dances (Mapleshade)
- Marc Puricelli: The Shade (Musicmasters)
- Christian Wolfarth: 3-3-2 (Percaso)
- Aoki/Wong/Pavkovic Trio: Urban Reception (Southport)
- Ray Brown Trio: The Sax Players (Telarc)
- Miles Davis: Live Around the World (Warner Bros.)
<Not new, but new to WNUR>
- Yusef Lateef: The Blue Yusef Lateef (Atlantic)
- McCoy Tyner: Time For Tyner (Blue Note)
- Thelonious Monk: Genius of Modern Music Vol. 2 (Blue Note)
- Grant Green: Green is Beautiful (Blue Note)
- Freddie Hubbard: Here to Stay (Blue Note)
- Oliver Lake & Donal Fox: Boston Duets (Music & Arts)
JAZZ SHOW TOP 25
These are the top 25 releases based on collective airplay by our
20-odd jazz DJ's for the week ending June 16, 1996.
* denotes reissue, @ denotes not real new.
- David Murray Big Band: South of the Border (DIW)
- Arcado String Trio: Live in Europe (Avant)
- Dave Douglas: Five (Soul Note)
- Von Freeman: Fire (Southport)
- Anthony Braxton: Composition No. 173 (Black Saint)
- Michael Zerang: Frankenstein (Garlic)
- Tony Williams*: Life Time (Blue Note)
- World Saxophone Quartet: Four Now (Justin Time)
- various: Kansas City (soundtrack) (Verve)
- Poncho Sanchez: Baila Mi Gente (Concord)
- Ghost in the Machine: Featuring Evan Parker (Leo)
- Feet Music: Assertions & Sketches (Chroma)
- Mocktet: Periphery (Mocktet)
- Crispell/Guy/Hemingway@: Cascades (Music & Arts)
- Stan Getz@: Blue Skies (Concord)
- Saxemble: Saxemble (Qwest)
- Charles Papasoff: International Baritone Conspiracy (Victo)
- John Coltrane*: Complete Atlantic Recordings (Rhino)
- John Zorn*: The Classic Guide to Strategy (Tzadik)
- Matthew Shipp: Symbol Systems (No More)
- Geisser/Hennen/Hoyer/Parker: The Ropedancer (Leo Lab)
- Plimley/Ellis/Robinson@: Density of the Lovestruck Demons (Music & Arts)
- Cyrus Chestnut: Earth Stories (Atlantic)
- Joshua Breakstone: Remembering Grant Green (Evidence)
- Ray Charles: Berlin, 1962 (Pablo)
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