WNUR Jazz Report, 12/15/96

NEWS

• Ted Sirota's Rebel Souls, #5 on our charts this week, appear at the Empty Bottle on December 18th. Since the CD was recorded, WNUR DJ Josh Abrams has replaced Jeff Hill as the group's bassist.
• I won't be adding any new CD's until January, but here's some CD's that we've received that you can look forward to: Sam Rivers (Rivbea), Roger Smith (Emanem), Derek Bailey (Emanem), John Carter & Bobby Bradford (Emanem), Gerry Hemingway Quintet (Random Acoustics), Robert Dick & Mari Kimura (Random Acoustics), Northwoods Improvisors (Arc), Ivo Perelman (Homestead), Agasul Orchester (Unit), Erik Friedlander (Tzadik), and a stack of discs from Italy.

JAZZ SHOW TOP 25

* denotes reissue, @ denotes not real new.

1. David S. Ware Quartet: Godspelized (DIW)
2. Myra Melford: The Same River, Twice (Gramavision)
3. Ivo Perelman: Sad Life (Leo)
4. Masada: Zayin (Seven) (DIW)
5. Ted Sirota's Rebel Souls: Rebel Roots (Naim)
6. James P. Johnson*: The Original James P. Johnson, 1942-1945 (Smithsonian Folkways)
7. Vinny Golia Large Ensemble@: Tutto Contare (9 Winds)
8. Don Byron: Bug Music (Nonesuch)
9. Liquid Soul: Liquid Soul (Ark 21)
10. Betsuni Nanmo Klezmer: Waltz (Nani)
11. Jon Jang Sextet: Two Flowers on a Stem (Soul Note)
12. Northwoods Improvisers: Fog and Fire (Arc)
13. Woods/Herring/Hart: Alto Summit (Milestone)
14. Scott Rosenberg: Arc (Super J)
15. Anthony Braxton & the Fred Simmons Trio: 9 Standards (Quartet) 1993 (2 CD's) (Leo)
16. Michael Brecker: Tales From the Hudson (Impulse!)
17. Evan Parker & Sainkho Namtchylak: Mars Song (Victo)
18. various: October Meeting 87 (Bimhuis)
19. Tony Oxley Celebration Orchestra: The Enchanted Messenger (Soul Note)
20. Cinghiale: Hoofbeats of the Snorting Swine (Eighth Day)
21. Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers: Lausanne 1960, 2nd Set (TCB)
22. Leandre/Houle/Graewe: Live at Banlieues Bleues (Red Toucan)
23. Steve Beresford: Cue Sheets (Tzadik)
24. ICP Orchestra@: Bospaadje Konijnehol II (ICP)
25. Matthew Shipp Trio: Prism (Brinkman)