WNUR Jazz Report, 5/20/97

NEWS

• In last week's series of interviews with performers from the Empty Bottle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music, DJ's talked with Steve Beresford, Veryan Weston, Fred Van Hove, Irene Schweizer, Frank Gratkowski, and festival co-organizer John Corbett. All of the interviews were recorded and we hope to have at least some of them transcribed and available on the web at some point in the future.
• This morning we were pleased to present an interview and live performance by ex-Florida, now Bay Area shakuhachi player Philip Gelb. He hopes to return to Chicago to play some concerts sometime this fall.

JAZZ SHOW TOP 25

* denotes reissue, @ denotes not real new.

1. Fred Van Hove & Ivo Vander Borght@: Lust (WIMprotwee)
2. Pharoah Sanders*: Pharoah (India Navigation)
3. John Patton*: Accent on the Blues (Blue Note)
4. John Coltrane*: Blue Train (Blue Note)
5. Irene Schweizer: Many and One Direction (Intakt)
6. Dave Douglas Tiny Bell Trio: Live in Europe (Arabesque)
7. Matthew Shipp "String" Trio: By the Law of Music (hat ART)
8. Gregg Bendian: Gregg Bendian's Interzone (Eremite)
9. Niels-Henning Orsted-Peterson Trio: Friends Forever (Milestone)
10. Lewis/Brown/etc.: Clear Blue (Darwin Gross)
11. David Schumacher: Every Corner (Amosaya)
12. ROVA: John Coltrane's Ascension (Black Saint)
13. Barrage Double Trio@: Utility Hitter (Quinnah)
14. Enrico Pieranunzi Trio: Seaward (Soul Note)
15. Werner Dafeldecker & Uli Fussenegger@: Bogengaenge (Durian)
16. Sonny Clark: Sonny Clark/Max Roach/George Duvivier (Jazz View)
17. Ned Rothenberg@: Power Lines (New World)
18. Hersch/Moore/Hemingway: Thirteen Ways (GM)
19. Cecil McBee: Unspoken (Palmetto)
20. Parker/Guy/Lytton & Marilyn Crispell: Natives and Aliens (Leo)
21. Doc Cheatham & Nicholas Payton: Doc Cheatham & Nicolas Payton (Verve)
22. John Schott: In These Great Times (Tzadik)
23. Oliver Lake: Matador of 1st and 1st (Passin' Thru)
24. Consuelo-Jon Quintet: Last Sunday Morning (Accurate)
25. Tatsu Aoki: Eigen (IEL)