WNUR Jazz Report, 5/6/97

NEWS

• Next week, May 12-16, the jazz show will feature an interview every day at 11:00am with musicians appearing at the Empty Bottle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music. The exact schedule of interviews hasn't been finalized, but may possibly include Steve Beresford, Veryan Weston, Irene Schweizer, and Frank Gratkowski.
• Also, don't forget to tune in to our live music show Airplay on Saturday May 10th between 2:00 and 5:00 to hear a live performance by Radu Malfatti (trombone) and Werner Dafeldecker (bass), members of the Austrian quartet Polwechsel. In addition to the Polwechsel appearance at the Empty Bottle on the 14th, Malfatti and Dafeldecker perform this Friday night at the RX Gallery and Saturday night at the Renaissance Society.
• South African reed/flute player Zim Ngqawana and his group Ingoma will be in residency at Northwestern May 7th through the 18th. They'll be visiting and performing on WNUR's Continental Drift program on Friday, May 16th at 1:00 pm. In addition to a number of their own performances around Chicago and in Madison and Milwaukee, Zim will join with legendary percussionist Max Roach to perform twice (Thursday, 5/15, Chicago Cultural Center, Sister-City signing and Saturday, 5/17 at Northwestern's Pick-Staiger Concert Hall as part of the "NU Jazz Festival").
• New York saxophonist Michael Attias is currently in town for several concerts as a guest with Fred Lonberg-Holm's trio In Zenith, including a show May 7th at the Empty Bottle. A CD release by the trio, which also includes Michael Zerang and Jeb Bishop, is planned by Eighth Day Music. Attias and Lonberg-Holm, who also work together in the group Peep, were interviewed on the jazz show this morning.

JAZZ SHOW TOP 25

* denotes reissue, @ denotes not real new.

1. Parker/Guy/Lytton & Marilyn Crispell: Natives and Aliens (Leo)
2. Cecil McBee*: Alternate Spaces (India Navigation)
3. Hersch/Moore/Hemingway: Thirteen Ways (GM)
4. Tim Berne's Bloodcount: Unwound (3 CD's) (Screwgun)
5. John Coltrane*: Blue Train (Blue Note)
6. Muhal Richard Abrams@: One Line, Two Views (New World)
7. Irene Schweizer: Many and One Direction (Intakt)
8. Michael Mason: Exploration (Southport)
9. Cecil McBee: Unspoken (Palmetto)
10. Consuelo-Jon Quintet: Last Sunday Morning (Accurate)
11. Doc Cheatham & Nicholas Payton: Doc Cheatham & Nicolas Payton (Verve)
12. Stevens, Siegel & Ferguson: Points of View (Imaginary)
13. Ned Rothenberg@: Power Lines (New World)
14. Vandermark Five: Single Piece Flow (Atavistic)
15. Don Friedman Trio: The Days of Wine and Roses (Soul Note)
16. Rob Brown & Matthew Shipp: Blink of an Eye (No More)
17. Dave Douglas Tiny Bell Trio: Live in Europe (Arabesque)
18. Hamiet Bluiett*: Im/possible to Keep (2 CD's) (India Navigation)
19. Anthony Braxton & Brett Larner: 11 Compositions (Duo) 1995 (Leo)
20. Sun Ra & his Intergalaxtic Arkestra: Stardust From Tomorrow (2 CD's) (Leo)
21. Blonk/Gustafsson/Zerang: Blonk, Gustafsson & Zerang (Kontrans)
22. Earl Hines*: At Home (Delmark)
23. Muhal Richard Abrams & Marty Ehrlich: The Open Air Meeting (New World)
24. ROVA: John Coltrane's Ascension (Black Saint)
25. Elias Haslanger: For the Moment (Heart)

MONTHLY TOP 50

1. Ed Blackwell Trio: Walls-Bridges (Black Saint)
2. Vandermark Five: Single Piece Flow (Atavistic)
3. Charlie Parker*: Yardbird Suite (2 CD's) (Rhino)
4. Anthony Braxton & Brett Larner: 11 Compositions (Duo) 1995 (Leo)
5. John Zorn Masada Chamber Ensembles@: Bar Kokhba (2 CD's) (Tzadik)
6. Ellery Eskelin & Andrea Parkins: Green Bermudas (Eremite)
7. Barrage Double Trio@: Utility Hitter (Quinnah)
8. Hamiet Bluiett*: Im/possible to Keep (2 CD's) (India Navigation)
9. Hamid Drake & Michael Zerang: Ask the Sun (OkkaDisk)
10. Wayne Horvitz & Zony Mash: Cold Spell (Knitting Factory Works)
11. Mingus Big Band: Live in Time (2 CD's) (Dreyfus)
12. various*: Critics' Pick Sampler Vol. 1 (Black Saint/Soul Note)
13. John Carter & Bobby Bradford: Tandem 2 (Emanem)
14. Gregg Bendian: Gregg Bendian's Interzone (Eremite)
15. Benny Carter: New York Nights (MusicMasters)
16. Duke Ellington: Cornell University: Second Set (MusicMasters)
17. Assif Tsahar: Shekhina (Eremite)
18. Fred Anderson*: The Missing Link (Nessa)
19. John Patton*: Accent on the Blues (Blue Note)
20. Cecil McBee: Unspoken (Palmetto)
21. Conrad Herwig@: The Latin Side of John Coltrane (Astor Place)
22. Scott Fields: Disaster at Sea (Music & Arts)
23. Jimmy McGriff*: Electric Funk (Blue Note)
24. David Murray@: David Murray/James Newton Quintet (DIW)
25. Sam Rivers: Concept (Rivbea)
26. Lou Grassi Saxtet: Quick Wits (CJR)
27. Northwoods Improvisers: Spinning (Arc)
28. Frank Morgan: Bop! (Telarc)
29. Roland Vazquez: Further Dance (RVCD)
30. Albert Nicholas/Art Hodes Quartet*: The New Orleans-Chicago Connection (Delmark)
31. Roger Smith: Unexpected Turns (Emanem)
32. Derek Bailey: Lace (Emanem)
33. Jimmy McGriff: The Dream Team (Milestone)
34. Herbie Nichols Project: Love is Proximity (Soul Note)
35. Prima Materia: Bells (Knitting Factory Works)
36. Bevan/Frangenheim/Noble: Twisters (Scatter)
37. Vinny Golia Quintet@: Razor (9 Winds)
38. Roy Haynes: True or False (Evidence)
39. Mario Schiano: Social Security (Victo)
40. Jemeel Moondoc: Tri-P-Let (Eremite)
41. David Murray Quintet@: With Ray Anderson & Anthony Davis (DIW)
42. Earl Hines*: At Home (Delmark)
43. Pucho Brown*: The Best of Pucho and his Latin Soul Brothers (Prestige)
44. Donald Byrd*: Street Lady (Blue Note)
45. Tatsu Aoki: Eigen (IEL)
46. Blonk/Gustafsson/Zerang: Blonk, Gustafsson & Zerang (Kontrans)
47. Bob Nieske's Wolf Soup: My Desire (GM)
48. Dexter Gordon*: Plays the Blues (Prestige)
49. Ivo Perelman: Cama de Terra (Homestead)
50. Fareed Haque: Deja Vu (Blue Note)