WNUR Jazz Report, 2/24/97

ADDS THIS WEEK

[New releases]

• Vinny Golia Quintet@: Razor (9 Winds)
• Kim Richmond/Clay Jenkins Ensemble: Range (9 Winds)
• Marc Cary: Listen (Arabesque)
• Frank Foster: Leo Rising (Arabesque)
• Bert Wilson & Rebirth: Endless Fingers (Arabesque)
• Conrad Herwig@: The Latin Side of John Coltrane (Astor Place)
• Junko Onishi: Live at the Village Vanguard (Blue Note)
• John McNeil & Kenny Berger: Hip Deep (Brownstone)
• Lou Grassi@: PoGressions (Cadence Jazz)
• Lou Grassi Saxtet: Quick Wits (CJR)
• Lewis/Brown/etc.: Clear Blue (Darwin Gross)
  That's John Lewis and Ray Brown...
• David Murray@: David Murray/James Newton Quintet (DIW)
  With John Hicks, Fred Hopkins, Andrew Cyrille.
• David Murray Quintet@: With Ray Anderson & Anthony Davis (DIW)
• Don Preston: Hear Me Out (Echograph)
• Gregg Bendian: Gregg Bendian's Interzone (Eremite)
• Ellery Eskelin & Andrea Parkins: Green Bermudas (Eremite)
  Parkins plays sampler exclusively on this disk, using as source sounds not the piano and organ sounds she uses with Eskelin's trio, but material ranging from Eskelin's own sampled playing, the drums of Joey Baron, and the mail-order pop of Eskelin's father Rodd Keith. On the latter tracks in particular, the lonely sound of Eskelin's tenor puts a plaintive or disturbing edge on material that would ordinarily be whimsical.
• Jemeel Moondoc: Tri-P-Let (Eremite)
• Assif Tsahar: Shekhina (Eremite)
  Trio disc with William Parker and Susie Ibarra.
• Jean-Paul Bourelly & the BluWave Bandits: Fade to Cacophony (Evidence)
• Roy Haynes: True or False (Evidence)
• Manhattan Projects: We Remember Cannonball (Evidence)
• General Music Project: General Music Project (Evidence)
  Featuring the recently deceased drummer Charles Moffett and his son, bassist Charnett.
• East Down Septet: Channel Surfing (Hep)
• Wayne Horzitz & Zony Mash: Cold Spell (Knitting Factory Works)
  Heavy organ/guitar quartet.
• Briggan Krauss: Good Kitty (Knitting Factory Works)
  Trio with Chris Speed (reeds), Michael Sarin (drums). The best of this KFW batch.
• Roy Nathanson: Camp Stories (Knitting Factory Works)
  Soundtrack music.
• Prima Materia: Bells (Knitting Factory Works)
  Hour-long version of the Albert Ayler piece. Rashied Ali guests on drums.
• various: New York Downtown Sounds (Knitting Factory Works)
• Blonk/Gustafsson/Zerang: Blonk, Gustafsson & Zerang (Kontrans)
  Whispering free-improv from Holland-Sweden-Chicago!
• Jimmy McGriff: The Dream Team (Milestone)
• Scott Fields: Disaster at Sea (Music & Arts)
  Electric and abrasive power trio record (with Matt Turner and Vincent Davis) by the Madison guitarist.
• Glenn Horiuchi@: Hilltop View (Music & Arts)
• New Composers Ensemble: 53rd St. Ghost (Oracle)
• Cecil McBee: Unspoken (Palmetto)
• Barrage Double Trio@: Utility Hitter (Quinnah)
  Doubled reeds (Ken Vandermark, Mars Williams), bass (Nate McBride, Kent Kessler), drums (Curt Newton, Hamid Drake); all Vandermark tunes (alternating with free improvisations by subsets of the full group).
• Roland Vazquez: Further Dance (RVCD)
• Tim Berne's Bloodcount: Unwound (3 CD's) (Screwgun)
  Three CD's of Berne's sprawling, stomping compositions, played by the quartet version (without guitarist Marc Ducret) version of Bloodcount currently touring the U.S. (they play the Elbo Room in Chicago on March 8th).
• Giovanni Hidalgo: Hands of Rhythm (Tropijazz)
• John Zorn Masada Chamber Ensembles@: Bar Kokhba (2 CD's) (Tzadik)
  Moody, restrained compositions played by various small string-heavy groupings (Zorn does not play).
• Kenny Barron & Mino Cinelu: Swamp Sally (Verve)
• Charlie Haden & Pat Metheny: Beyond the Missouri Sky (Verve)
  All-acoustic duets.
• Shirley Horn: Loving You (Verve)
• Darkk Bros.: Darkk Bros. (Void Ware)

[New reissues]

• Donald Byrd: Street Lady (Blue Note)
  Blue Note Rare Groove.
• Lou Donaldson: Mr. Shing-a-ling (Blue Note)
  Blue Note Rare Groove.
• Jimmy McGriff: Electric Funk (Blue Note)
  Blue Note Rare Groove.
• John Patton: Accent on the Blues (Blue Note)
  From the Blue Note Rare Groove series. With James "Blood" Ulmer, George Coleman, et al.
• Stanley Turrentine: Easy Walker (Blue Note)
  Blue Note Rare Groove.
• Reuben Wilson: Love Bug (Blue Note)
  Blue Note Rare Groove.
• Clancy Hayes & the Salty Dogs: Oh! By Jingo (Delmark)
• Earl Hines: At Home (Delmark)
• George Lewis & Don Ewell: Reunion (Delmark)
  That's the New Orleans clarinetist George Lewis. Traditional jazz, live in 1966.
• Albert Nicholas/Art Hodes Quartet: The New Orleans-Chicago Connection (Delmark)
  More music from the 50s/60s New Orleans revival.
• Fred Anderson: The Missing Link (Nessa)
  Great 1984 record (recorded 1979) out for the first time on CD. WIth Adam Rudolph, Hamid Drake, Larry Hayrod.

[Not new, but new to WNUR]

• Richard Grossman: Trio in Real Time (9 Winds)
• John Carter/Bobby Bradford Quartet: Seeking (hat ART)
• Warne Marsh: Ne Plus Ultra (hat ART)
• Anthony Ortega: New Dance! (hat ART)
  These three discs are all reissues of late-60's records originally released by the forward-looking L.A. label Revelation. Ortega was an obscure West Coast alto saxophonist who was rarely able to document the more radical side of his music, which recalls Ornette Coleman and Jimmy Giuffre. Seeking is one of the most important records to come out the L.A. free jazz scene at the time (which centered on Carter, Bradford, and Horace Tapscott). Ne Plus Ultra is one of the finest of the occasions on which the Tristanoite tenor man Marsh stepped into the spotlight as a leader.

JAZZ SHOW TOP 25

* denotes reissue, @ denotes not real new.

1. Vandermark Five: Single Piece Flow (Atavistic)
2. Gerry Hemingway Quintet: Perfect World (Random Acoustics)
3. Mingus Big Band: Live in Time (2 CD's) (Dreyfus)
4. Dexter Gordon*: Plays the Blues (Prestige)
5. Hamid Drake & Michael Zerang: Ask the Sun (OkkaDisk)
6. Agasul Orchester: No Turning Back (Unit)
7. Sam Rivers: Concept (Rivbea)
8. Frank Morgan: Bop! (Telarc)
9. Eugene Chadbourne: Boogie With the Hook (Leo)
10. Mario Schiano: Social Security (Victo)
11. various: The Thunderclaps CD (X-OR)
12. Northwoods Improvisers: Spinning (Arc)
13. Jeff Song and Lowbrow: Rules of Engagement (Asian Improv)
14. Erik Friedlander@: The Watchman (Tzadik)
15. John Carter & Bobby Bradford: Tandem 2 (Emanem)
16. Roger Smith: Unexpected Turns (Emanem)
17. John Patton Quintet: This One's for Ja (DIW)
18. Steve Beresford: Cue Sheets (Tzadik)
19. Dave Scott/Tony Malaby Quartet: (untitled) (9 Winds)
20. Masada: Zayin (Seven) (DIW)
21. John Coltrane*: Plays the Blues (Prestige)
22. Anthony Braxton & the Fred Simmons Trio: 9 Standards (Quartet) 1993 (2 CD's) (Leo)
23. David S. Ware Quartet: Godspelized (DIW)
24. Miles Davis*: Plays the Blues (Prestige)
25. Vinny Golia Large Ensemble@: Tutto Contare (9 Winds)

MONTHLY TOP 50

* denotes reissue, @ denotes not real new.

1. Sam Rivers: Concept (Rivbea)
2. Gerry Hemingway Quintet: Perfect World (Random Acoustics)
3. Dexter Gordon*: Plays the Blues (Prestige)
4. John Carter & Bobby Bradford: Tandem 2 (Emanem)
5. Agasul Orchester: No Turning Back (Unit)
6. Northwoods Improvisers: Spinning (Arc)
7. Erik Friedlander@: The Watchman (Tzadik)
8. Coleman Hawkins*: Plays the Blues (Prestige)
9. David S. Ware Quartet: Godspelized (DIW)
10. Masada: Zayin (Seven) (DIW)
11. Ornette Coleman*: Body Meta (Harmolodic)
12. Mario Schiano: Social Security (Victo)
13. Kirk Lightsey Trio: Goodbye Mr. Evans (Evidence)
14. Ornette Coleman@: The Belgrade Concert (Jazz Door)
15. Myra Melford: The Same River, Twice (Gramavision)
16. Matthew Shipp Duo: With Roscoe Mitchell (2.13.61)
17. Ted Sirota's Rebel Souls: Rebel Roots (Naim)
18. Lennie Tristano & Warne Marsh*: Intuition (Capitol)
19. Roger Smith: Unexpected Turns (Emanem)
20. Sonny Rollins*: Silver City (2 CD's) (Milestone)
21. James P. Johnson*: The Original James P. Johnson, 1942-1945 (Smithsonian Folkways)
22. Bobby Previte: Too Close to the Pole (Enja)
23. Don Byron: Bug Music (Nonesuch)
24. Ivo Perelman: Cama de Terra (Homestead)
25. Lennie Tristano*: Manhattan Studio (Jazz Records)
26. Evan Parker & Sainkho Namtchylak: Mars Song (Victo)
27. Wes Montgomery: Encores Vol. 2: Blue'n'Boogie (Milestone)
28. Vinny Golia Large Ensemble@: Tutto Contare (9 Winds)
29. Brian Gephart & Bob Long Quartet: Water Logic (no label)
30. Betsuni Nanmo Klezmer: Waltz (Nani)
31. Joe Henderson: Big Band (Verve)
32. Joe Locke Quartet: Inner Space (SteepleChase)
33. Paul Bley Trio: Modern Chant (MusicMasters)
34. Robert Dick & Mari Kimura: Irrefragable Dreams (Random Acoustics)
35. Mingus Big Band: Live in Time (2 CD's) (Dreyfus)
36. John Patton Quintet: This One's for Ja (DIW)
37. Dodo Marmarosa*: Up in Dodo's Room (Jazz Classics)
38. Gustafsson/Guy/Lovens: Mouth Eating Trees and Related Activities (OkkaDisk)
39. Fredrick Lonberg-Holm: Personal Scratch (Eighth Day)
40. Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers: Lausanne 1960, 2nd Set (TCB)
41. Up There Trio: Push It (BVHaast)
42. Rich Corpolongo: Just Found Joy (Delmark)
43. Leandre/Houle/Graewe: Live at Banlieues Bleues (Red Toucan)
44. Bob Moses: Devotion (Soul Note)
45. Vandermark Five: Single Piece Flow (Atavistic)
46. Quincy Jones: Q Live in Paris Circa 1960 (Qwest)
47. Ken Schaphorst: Over the Rainbow (Accurate)
48. Stevens/Duval Quintet: Elements (Leo)
49. Ella Fitzgerald*: Sings the Blues (Prestige)
50. Joe Lovano: Celebrating Sinatra (Blue Note)