WNUR Jazz Report, 2/18/97

Reports compiled by:

Seth Tisue, Jazz Music Director
jazz-md@wnur.org
(847) 491-7102
Evanston, IL

NEWS

Sorry, no jazz report last week. This week's chart covers two weeks' worth of airplay. Adds will return next week. I was busy with...
...our annual fundraiser. The jazz show and the station as a whole were quite successful overall, jazz raising about 10% of the station total of about $30,000. Many thanks both to individuals who donated and to record companies who helped us out with premiums. If you are a listener and didn't get the chance to call in and donate last week, we'd still be happy to take your pledge by E-mail, and many good premiums are still available -- ask for a list.
The duo of Matthew Shipp (piano) and William Parker (bass) performed live on WNUR (on our Saturday afternoon local music show Airplay) this past weekend prior to their concert at Unity Temple in Oak Park.

These are the top 25 releases ranked by actual total airplay by our 20-odd jazz DJ's for the two weeks ending February 15, 1997.

* denotes reissue, @ denotes not real new.

Vandermark Five: Single Piece Flow (Atavistic)
Sam Rivers: Concept (Rivbea)
Hamid Drake & Michael Zerang: Ask the Sun (OkkaDisk)
James Blood Ulmer*: Tales of Captain Black (DIW)
Derek Bailey: Lace (Emanem)
Ted Sirota's Rebel Souls: Rebel Roots (Naim)
Erik Friedlander@: The Watchman (Tzadik)
Don Byron: Bug Music (Nonesuch)
Benny Green: Kaleidoscope (Blue Note)
John Carter & Bobby Bradford: Tandem 2 (Emanem)
various: CIMPosium (CIMP)
Anthony Braxton & the Fred Simmons Trio: 9 Standards (Quartet) 1993 (2 CD's) (Leo)
Gerry Hemingway Quintet: Perfect World (Random Acoustics)
Mingus Big Band: Live in Time (2 CD's) (Dreyfus)
Roger Smith: Unexpected Turns (Emanem)
Kirk Lightsey Trio: Goodbye Mr. Evans (Evidence)
Dexter Gordon*: Plays the Blues (Prestige)
Betty Carter: I'm Yours, You're Mine (Verve)
Rich Corpolongo: Just Found Joy (Delmark)
Bevan/Frangenheim/Noble: Twisters (Scatter)
Ivo Perelman: Cama de Terra (Homestead)
Frank Morgan: Bop! (Telarc)
David S. Ware Quartet: Godspelized (DIW)
Joe Henderson: Big Band (Verve)
Dana Reason: Primal Identity (Deep Listening)