WNUR Jazz Report, 8/25/96

GENERAL COMMENTS

• Seth Tisue will be away during the month of August. Jim Zanghi will be handling music director duties during this time. As always, you can reach us both at jazz-md@wnur.org.
• John Corbett will be interviewing Hat Art producer Werner X. Uehlinger as part of a Hat Art interiew series presented by WNUR. This will happen Tuesday morning, August 27, 1996, during John's show (9:30 am - 12:30pm).

NEW MUSIC COMMENTS

• Ornette! Sound Museum consists of a quartet led by Ornette Coleman with Charnette Moffett, Denardo Coleman, and Geri Allen. I've heard that this is the first time Ornette has worked with a piano player since the '60's. The 2 CD's have their own album titles and are packaged separately, but consist of the same 14 compositions, with a completely different rendition of each composition on the different CD's. Sounds like a marketing gimic by Verve, and maybe it is, but I tried playing both renditions of one composition at the exact same time using two CD players and what I heard was a mess - it was amazing how different they really were. Overall, a great pair of CD's.
• Cyrus Chestnut's release on Evidence is a nice 2 CD set.
• What We Live has their second album out, this time on Black Saint. The first one on DIW is still getting heavy airplay on our station. The new release has a different fourth guest artist appearing on each of the album's tracks.
• You Forget to Answer is new improvised music from Maya Recordings featuring Barry Guy, Mats Gustafsson, and Raymond Strid. The latter two Swedish improvisors recently visited Chicago, and Mats will return to his home-away-from-home this fall. Hopefully, John Corbett will have him on the air again. Maya is run by Barry Guy and Maya Homburger. After Sept. 20, they will have a new address as they are moving to Ireland. I don't have the new contact info with me, but you can probably check Peter Stubley's European Improvised Music web site for an update.
• Unlike most of the new Emanem releases, Russell/Turner CD below was recorded recently (earlier this year).
• Hal Rammel, John Corbett, and Terri Kapsalis performed this Friday at the Lunar Cabaret to celebrate the release of their new CD.
• Samana is the first all-female band to come out of the AACM school.

ADDS THIS WEEK

<New releases>

• Cyrus Chestnut Trio: Nut (Evidence)
• Ornette Coleman: Sound Museum (2 CD's) (Harmolodic)
• various: Intuition Music 1996 (Intuition)
• Ian Dogle & Global Fusion: Ionospheres (Cei Cymekob)
• Hilario Duran: Francisco's Song (Justin Time)
• What We Live/Lisle Ellis: What We Live Fo(u)r (Black Saint)
• Guy/Gustafsson/Strid: You Forget to Answer (Maya)
• Javon Jackson: A Look Within (Blue Note)
• Philip Johnson's Big Trouble: Flood at the Ant Farm (Black Saint)
• Living Daylights: Falling Down Laughing (Living Daylights)
• Loschel/Skrepek/Zrost: While You Wait (Extraplatte)
• Chris Potter : Moving In (Concord)
• Hal Rammel/John Corbett/Terri Kapsalis: Van's Peppy Syncopators (Penumbra)
• John Russell & Roger Turner: Birthdays (Emanem)
• Samana: Samana (Storywiz)
• Jack Walrath & Hard Corps: Journey, Man! (Evidence)
• Anthony Wonsey Trio: Anthonyology (Evidence)

<New reissues>

• various: Swing-Dance v. 2 (Drive Archive)
• various: Masters of Jazz v. 3: Big Bands... (Rhino)

<Not new, but new to WNUR>

• John Butcher: 13 Friendly Numbers (Acta)

JAZZ SHOW TOP 25

* denotes reissue, @ denotes not real new.

1. Famoudou Don Moye & Enoch Williams: Afrikan Song (AECO)
2. John Carter & Bobby Bradford: Tandem 1 (Emanem)
3. William Parker In Order to Survive: Compassion Seizes Bed-Stuy (Homestead)
4. Either/Orchestra: Across the Omniverse (Accurate)
5. Joe Morris Ensemble: Elsewhere (Homestead)
6. D.D. Jackson: Rhythm-Dance (Justin Time)
7. Sonny Stitt: In Style (Muse)
8. Ken Field: Subterranea (OO Discs)
9. Vandy Harris: Pure Fire (Katumbi)
10. Andrea Parkins: Cast Iron Fact (KFW)
11. Wolfgang Fuchs: Bits & Pieces (FMP)
12. Ellis/Ochs/Robinson: What We Live (DIW)
13. Teddy Edwards & Houston Person: Horn to Horn (Muse)
14. Matt Wilson: As Wave Follows Wave (Palmetto)
15. Honk, Wail and Moan: Mailbox Above (Uff Da)
16. Shaking Ray Levis@: False Prophets or Dang Good Guessers (Incus)
17. Evan Parker & Paul Lytton: Two Octobers (1972-1975) (Emanem)
18. Jean Derome et les dangereux Zhoms: Navre (DAME)
19. Dave McKenna & Joe Temperley: Sunbeam and Thundercloud (Concord)
20. Rodney Kendrick: Last Chance for Common Sense (Verve)
21. John Butcher: London and Cologne (Rastascan)
22. various: Masters of Jazz v. 2: Bebop's Greatest Hits (Rhino)
23. John Hicks: Piece For My Peace (Landmark)
24. Crispell/Jormin/Strid@: Spring Tour (Alice)
25. Errol Garner: Now Playing: A Night at the Movies... (Telarc)

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