WNUR Jazz Report, 9/30/96

GENERAL COMMENTS

• Coming to Chicago this fall: What We Live, Mats Gustafsson (interviewed on the jazz show on October 1st), Gert Anklam, the Sun Ra Arkestra, Jaap Blonk, Joe Lovano, and many more. Consult http://www.cs.nwu.edu/~tisue/shows.html for dates and venues.

NEW MUSIC COMMENTS

• Eighth Day Music is a new Chicago-based record label. Their first two releases are by Chicago artists Cinghiale and Fredrick Lonberg-Holm. Cinghiale is the reeds duo of Mars Williams and Ken Vandermark; they each play various saxophones and clarinets and the different tracks on the disc run through the different possible instrument pairings. They work with composed material as well as free improvisation. Fredrick Lonberg-Holm is a cellist from New York who's been living in Chicago for about a year now and works with the ensembles Broken Wire, Witches and Devils, and Trigger; on his solo CD, he employs a wide variety of extended techniques in a series of short improvisations.
• Madison-based guitarist Scott Fields' new disc is one long continuous piece; the title, 48 Motives, refers to the open form of the composition. The different written "motives" employ Fields' own tonal system and are employed by different improvisors at different times, cued by a conductor. Fields performed a version of the piece in Chicago earlier this year, scaled down for trio (with Matt Turner (cello) and Vincent Davis (drums)). Fields, Turner, and Davis are on the CD, along with Marilyn Crispell, Joseph Jarman, and others.
• Two new discs featuring tenor saxophonist Ellery Eskelin: the one on Soul Note is a tribute to Gene Ammons, with Marc Ribot and Kenny Wollesen; he also appears on Mark Helias's 1995 disc on Enja, new to us here at WNUR.
• Many of the artists on the compilation of Asian American music on IEL will be appearing at the Asian American Jazz Festival at the Bop Shop, November 1-3.

ADDS THIS WEEK

<New releases>

• Scott Fields Ensemble: 48 Motives (Cadence Jazz)
• Jane Bunnett: Spirits of Havana (Denon)
• Cinghiale: Hoofbeats of the Snorting Swine (Eighth Day)
• Fredrick Lonberg-Holm: Personal Scratch (Eighth Day)
• Mark Helias@: Loopin' the Cool (Enja)
• Dave Liebman Group: Voyage (Evidence)
• Chet Baker: In Tokyo (2 CD's) (Evidence)
• Sweet Basil Trio (Walton/Carter/Higgins): St. Thomas (Evidence)
• Kenny Burrell: Then Along Came Kenny (Evidence)
• Anthony Wonsey Trio: Anthonyology (Evidence)
• Lee Konitz: Rhapsody II (Evidence)
• Ab Baars Trio@: Sprok (Geestgronden)
• various: Sounds Like 1996: Music by Asian American Artists (2 CD's) (IEL)
• Debris: Rapture in the Church of Disreputable Daydreams (Music & Arts)
• Ellery Eskelin: The Sun Died (Soul Note)
• John Scofield: Quiet (Verve)
• Joshua Redman: Freedom in the Groove (Warner Bros.)

<New reissues>

• Jimmy Giuffre@: Free Fall (Columbia (France))
• Joseph Jarman: As If It Were the Seasons (Delmark)
• Muhal Richard Abrams: Young at Heart/Wise in Time (Delmark)
• Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre: NForces and Feelings (Delmark)
• Roscoe Mitchell: Sound (Delmark)
• Steve Lacy & Mal Waldron: Live at Dreher Paris 1981, Vol. 1 (2 CD's) (hat ART)
• Coleman Hawkins Quartet: Today and Now (Impulse!)
• Freddie Hubbard: The Body & the Soul (Impulse!)

JAZZ SHOW TOP 25

* denotes reissue, @ denotes not real new.

1. Ornette Coleman: Sound Museum (2 CD's) (Harmolodic)
2. Philip Johnson's Big Trouble: Flood at the Ant Farm (Black Saint)
3. Guy/Gustafsson/Strid: You Forget to Answer (Maya)
4. What We Live: What We LIve Fo(u)r (Black Saint)
5. Samana: Samana (Storywiz)
6. Rammel/Corbett/Kapsalis: Van's Peppy Syncopators (Penumbra)
7. Jack Walrath & Hard Corps: Journey,, Man! (Evidence)
8. John Russell & Roger Turner: Birthdays (Emanem)
9. William Parker/In Order to Survive: Compassion Seizes Bed-Stuy (Homestead)
10. Joe Morris Ensemble: Elsewhere (Homestead)
11. Matt Wilson: As Wave Follows Wave (Palmetto)
12. Jean Derome et les dangereux Zhoms: Navre (DAME)
13. Eddie Jefferson: Things are Getting Better (Muse)
14. Chris Potter : Moving In (Concord)
15. Gerry Wiggins Trio: Soulidarity (Concord)
16. Charles Sullivan: Kamau (Arabesque)
17. Howard Riley@: Flight (FMR)
18. Anthony Wonsey Trio: Anthonyology (Evidence)
19. John Hicks: Piece For My Peace (Landmark)
20. Ray Drummond: Vignettes (Arabesque)
21. Michael Cochrane: Impressions (Landmark)
22. Vandy Harris: Pure Fire (Katumbi)
23. Philippe Micol: New York Interviews (Unit)
24. Horace Silver: The Hardbop Grandpop (Impulse!)
25. George Van Eps & Howard Alden: Keepin' Time (Concord)

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