WNUR Jazz Report, 3/4/97

NEWS

• We were pleased to welcome French bassist, vocalist, improvisor, and composer Joelle Leandre to our studios this morning for an interview and feature on her music conducted by DJ and fellow bassist Josh Abrams. Leandre performs tonight at Unity Temple in Oak Park solo and tomorrow night at the Empty Bottle in Chicago solo and in duets with Fred Lonberg-Holm, Jim O'Rourke, and Ken Vandermark.
• Frank Morgan performs this week, tonight through Sunday, at the Jazz Showcase here in Chicago. His new CD, Bop!, is near the top of our charts right now; it's one of the strongest new mainstream dates to come our way recently.

JAZZ SHOW TOP 25

* denotes reissue, @ denotes not real new.

1. Vandermark Five: Single Piece Flow (Atavistic)
2. Agasul Orchester: No Turning Back (Unit)
3. Frank Morgan: Bop! (Telarc)
4. David S. Ware Quartet: Godspelized (DIW)
5. James Blood Ulmer*: Tales of Captain Black (DIW)
6. Dana Reason: Primal Identity (Deep Listening)
7. Fred Anderson*: The Missing Link (Nessa)
8. Erik Friedlander@: The Watchman (Tzadik)
9. Roger Smith: Unexpected Turns (Emanem)
10. Bevan/Frangenheim/Noble: Twisters (Scatter)
11. Spanish Fly: Fly by Night (Accurate)
12. Tim Berne's Bloodcount: Unwound (3 CD's) (Screwgun)
13. Junko Onishi: Live at the Village Vanguard (Blue Note)
14. Kim Richmond/Clay Jenkins Ensemble: Range (9 Winds)
15. Assif Tsahar: Shekhina (Eremite)
16. Hamid Drake & Michael Zerang: Ask the Sun (OkkaDisk)
17. John Carter & Bobby Bradford: Tandem 2 (Emanem)
18. Vinny Golia Large Ensemble@: Tutto Contare (9 Winds)
19. Brian Gephart & Bob Long Quartet: Water Logic (no label)
20. Kirk Lightsey Trio: Goodbye Mr. Evans (Evidence)
21. Ivo Perelman: Cama de Terra (Homestead)
22. Jodie Christian: Front Line (Delmark)
23. Lennie Tristano*: Manhattan Studio (Jazz Records)
24. Bill DeArango: Anything Went (GM)
25. Gregg Bendian: Gregg Bendian's Interzone (Eremite)

MONTHLY TOP 50

* denotes reissue, @ denotes not real new.

1. Vandermark Five: Single Piece Flow (Atavistic)
2. Sam Rivers: Concept (Rivbea)
3. Hamid Drake & Michael Zerang: Ask the Sun (OkkaDisk)
4. Erik Friedlander@: The Watchman (Tzadik)
5. Dexter Gordon*: Plays the Blues (Prestige)
6. Frank Morgan: Bop! (Telarc)
7. James Blood Ulmer*: Tales of Captain Black (DIW)
8. Agasul Orchester: No Turning Back (Unit)
9. Gerry Hemingway Quintet: Perfect World (Random Acoustics)
10. Mingus Big Band: Live in Time (2 CD's) (Dreyfus)
11. John Carter & Bobby Bradford: Tandem 2 (Emanem)
12. Roger Smith: Unexpected Turns (Emanem)
13. David S. Ware Quartet: Godspelized (DIW)
14. Bevan/Frangenheim/Noble: Twisters (Scatter)
15. Ted Sirota's Rebel Souls: Rebel Roots (Naim)
16. Dana Reason: Primal Identity (Deep Listening)
17. Anthony Braxton & the Fred Simmons Trio: 9 Standards (Quartet) 1993 (2 CD's) (Leo)
18. Kirk Lightsey Trio: Goodbye Mr. Evans (Evidence)
19. Brian Gephart & Bob Long Quartet: Water Logic (no label)
20. Mario Schiano: Social Security (Victo)
21. Derek Bailey: Lace (Emanem)
22. Vinny Golia Large Ensemble@: Tutto Contare (9 Winds)
23. Ivo Perelman: Cama de Terra (Homestead)
24. Don Byron: Bug Music (Nonesuch)
25. Masada: Zayin (Seven) (DIW)
26. Spanish Fly: Fly by Night (Accurate)
27. Eugene Chadbourne: Boogie With the Hook (Leo)
28. Benny Green: Kaleidoscope (Blue Note)
29. John Patton Quintet: This One's for Ja (DIW)
30. various: CIMPosium (CIMP)
31. various: The Thunderclaps CD (X-OR)
32. Miles Davis*: Plays the Blues (Prestige)
33. Betty Carter: I'm Yours, You're Mine (Verve)
34. Steve Beresford: Cue Sheets (Tzadik)
35. Dave Scott/Tony Malaby Quartet: (untitled) (9 Winds)
36. Rich Corpolongo: Just Found Joy (Delmark)
37. Northwoods Improvisers: Spinning (Arc)
38. Bill DeArango: Anything Went (GM)
39. Lennie Tristano*: Manhattan Studio (Jazz Records)
40. Joe Henderson: Big Band (Verve)
41. Jimmy Smith: Angel Eyes (Verve)
42. Fred Anderson*: The Missing Link (Nessa)
43. Jodie Christian: Front Line (Delmark)
44. Jeff Song and Lowbrow: Rules of Engagement (Asian Improv)
45. Hamiet Bluiett: Bluiett's Barbecue Band (Mapleshade)
46. Ella Fitzgerald*: Sings the Blues (Prestige)
47. John Coltrane*: Plays the Blues (Prestige)
48. Stephen Scott: The Beautiful Thing (Verve)
49. Roots of Communication: Roots of Communication (Unit)
50. Chet Baker: In Bologna (Dreyfus)