WNUR Jazz Report, 10/7/96

GENERAL COMMENTS

• Slam is a new Chicago band that hybridizes elements of rock, jazz, and funk. Member Mars Williams, reeds player from the NRG Ensemble and Liquid Soul, will be in our studios at 11:00 am on Thursday, October 10 for an on-air interview along with other members of the group (Greg Suran (guitar), Kent Kessler (bass), and David Suycott (drums)). We'll be playing cuts from an as yet unreleased Slam recording at that time and throughout the week. Slam appear that night at the Double Door in Wicker Park along with Broken Wire and Cheer Accident. The concert at the Double Door is the first of a monthly series of Thursday night concerts put together by Williams that aims at attracting a crossover audience.

JAZZ SHOW TOP 25

* denotes reissue, @ denotes not real new.

1. Steve Lacy & Mal Waldron*: Live at Dreher Paris 1981, Vol. 1 (2 CD's) (hat ART)
2. What We Live: Fo(u)r (Black Saint)
3. Roscoe Mitchell*: Sound (Delmark)
4. Ornette Coleman: Sound Museum (2 CD's) (Harmolodic)
5. Philip Johnson's Big Trouble: Flood at the Ant Farm (Black Saint)
6. John Carter & Bobby Bradford: Tandem 1 (Emanem)
7. Fredrick Lonberg-Holm: Personal Scratch (Eighth Day)
8. Ellery Eskelin: The Sun Died (Soul Note)
9. Mark Helias@: Loopin' the Cool (Enja)
10. Cinghiale: Hoofbeats of the Snorting Swine (Eighth Day)
11. Jimmy Giuffre*: Free Fall (Columbia (France))
12. Coleman Hawkins Quartet*: Today and Now (Impulse!)
13. Sweet Basil Trio (Walton/Carter/Higgins): St. Thomas (Evidence)
14. Lee Konitz: Rhapsody II (Evidence)
15. William Parker/In Order to Survive: Compassion Seizes Bed-Stuy (Homestead)
16. Cyrus Chestnut Trio: Nut (Evidence)
17. Joseph Jarman*: As If It Were the Seasons (Delmark)
18. Muhal Richard Abrams*: Young at Heart/Wise in Time (Delmark)
19. Joshua Redman: Freedom in the Groove (Warner Bros.)
20. Freddie Hubbard*: The Body & the Soul (Impulse!)
21. various: Sounds Like 1996: Music by Asian American Artists (2 CD's) (IEL)
22. Debris: Rapture in the Church of Disreputable Daydreams (Music & Arts)
23. John Scofield: Quiet (Verve)
24. John Russell & Roger Turner: Birthdays (Emanem)
25. Samana: Samana (Storywiz)

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