WNUR Jazz Report, 5/27/97

ADDS THIS WEEK

[New releases]

• Ryan Cohan: Real World (Ryan Cohan)
  Chicago-based pianist, recording here with Orbert Davis, Tim Mulvenna, Tom Hipskind, et al. Apparently self-released; contact cohanry@eni.net.
• Glenn Horiuchi@: Mercy (Music & Arts)
  Short trio tracks with Roberto Miranda and Jeanette Wrate, plus a long piece by an entirely different group with Joseph Jarman, Francis Wrong, and Elliot Huberto Kavee. On piano, Horiuchi extends the less thunderous, more elliptical side of Cecil Taylor's recent music (think In Florescence).
• various: CIMPosium Vol. 2 (CIMP)
  More tracks culled (one each) from the second 15 releases from Cadence's Creative Improvised Music Projects series, all live-to-two-track recordings. Steve Swell, Sonny Simmons, Joe McPhee, Ivo Perelman, Odean Pope, and many more.
• Hamid Drake & Mats Gustafsson: For Don Cherry (OkkaDisk)
  Recorded live at Urbus Orbis here in Chicago, shortly after Cherry's death. Ltd ed of 600.
• DKV Trio: DKV Live (OkkaDisk)
• DKV Trio: Baraka (OkkaDisk)
  D = Hamid Drake (drums), K = Kent Kessler (bass), V = Ken Vandermark (reeds). Two new discs, one studio, one live, by this trio which has been burning up Chicago stages for the past year or two. The live disc (ltd ed of 600) is a single continuous hour-plus performance recorded at Lunar Cabaret here in Chicago, mostly showcasing the trio's quieter side, but with a roaring finish (touching upon "Tenor Madness").
• Steam: Real Time (Eighth Day)
  Jim Baker (piano), Ken Vandermark (reeds), Kent Kessler (bass), Tim Mulvenna (drums). Vandermark's closest approach to idiomatic jazz, fuelled by the snap of Mulvenna's postbop drums. Live, Steam mix originals with classics by Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy, Sun Ra, et al; on this disc it's all originals by Baker and Vandermark.
• Collective 4tet: Orca (Leo)
  Heinz Gesser, Mark Hennen, Jeff Hoyer, William Parker in what seems to now be a regular group (this is their 2nd CD). Hear Parker double on tuba on one track!
• Steve Lacy: Bye-Ya (Free Lance)
  Trio date with John Betsch and Jean-Jacques Avenel, plus Irene Aebi (vocals) on two tracks. Lacy says "Bye-ya" to Paris, hello to Berlin (see recent feature in Downbeat).
• Joel Futterman/"Kidd" Jordan Quartet: New Orleans Rising (Konnex)
  Explictly making the ties between the approaches to collective improvisation of free jazz and early New Orleans jazz. With Alvin Fielder, Elton Heron.
• Marc Sabatella: The Spanish Inquisition (Golden Horn)
  Pianist (and notorious rec.music.bluenote contributor) makes his debut with Don Pullen styled inside/outside quartet jazz. With a J.
• Debris: Errata (Eighth Day)
  Boston-based group recording for this Chicago label, appropriately since they're the Boston counterpart of a lot of the music coming out of Chicago these days. See http://members.aol.com/debrisbob/index.htm for info.
• Eugene Chadbourne & John Zorn@: In Memory of Nikki Arane (Incus)
  Previously unreleased live 1980 recordings. "Listeners said the concerts ruined it for them, they could no longer close their eyes and create imaginary pictures based on the sounds. It became something of a brutal, tragicomic experience." - liners (Who's Nikki Arane? A character in Kubrick's The Killing.)

[Not new, but new to our collection]

• Anthony Braxton & Ted Reichman: Duo (Leipzig) 1993 (Music & Arts)
  Professor-and-student duets, Reichman on accordion and piano.
• Booker Little: In New York (Jazz View)
  Live in 1960 with Tommy Flanagan or Wynton Kelly, Scott La Faro, and Roy Haynes.
• Eric Dolphy Quartet: Live in Germany (Magnetic)
  Live in 1961 with McCoy Tyner, Bob Cunningham, Mel Lewis. Long solos by everybody, a little thin Dolphy-wise.
• BassDrumBone: Wooferlo LP (Soul Note)
  Ray Anderson, Gerry Hemingway, Mark Helias.
• Hamiet Bluiett: Nali Kola LP (Soul Note)
• Paul Bley & Paul Motian: Notes LP (Soul Note)
• Bobby Bradford: One Night Stand LP (Soul Note)
• Fred Houn & the Afro-Asian Music Ensemble: We Refuse To Be Used and Abused LP (Soul Note)
• Art Davis Quartet: Life LP (Soul Note)

JAZZ SHOW TOP 25

* denotes reissue, @ denotes not real new.

1. Fred Anderson: Fred Anderson/DKV Trio (OkkaDisk)
2. Hersch/Moore/Hemingway: Thirteen Ways (GM)
3. Lou Grassi Saxtet: Quick Wits (CJR)
4. Georg Graewe: Gedaechtnisspueren: 7 Klavierstuecke (Music & Arts)
5. Anthony Braxton & Georg Graewe: Duo (Amsterdam) 1991 (OkkaDisk)
6. Ned Rothenberg@: Power Lines (New World)
7. Assif Tsahar: Shekhina (Eremite)
8. Italian Instabile Orchestra@: Skies of Europe (ECM)
9. Philip Gelb: Purple Wind (Ryokan)
10. Julian Priester & Sam Rivers: Hints on Light and Shadow (Postcards)
11. Charlie Parker*: Yardbird Suite (2 CD's) (Rhino)
12. Earl Hines*: At Home (Delmark)
13. Charlie Hunter Quartet: Natty Dread (Blue Note)
14. Anthony Braxton & Brett Larner: 11 Compositions (Duo) 1995 (Leo)
15. Irene Schweizer: Many and One Direction (Intakt)
16. Chicago Underground Orchestra: Playground (no label)
17. various*: Critics' Pick Sampler Vol. 1 (Black Saint/Soul Note)
18. Muhal Richard Abrams@: One Line, Two Views (New World)
19. John Patton*: Accent on the Blues (Blue Note)
20. Fred Van Hove & Ivo Vander Borght@: Lust (WIMprotwee)
21. Matthew Shipp "String" Trio: By the Law of Music (hat ART)
22. ROVA: John Coltrane's Ascension (Black Saint)
23. Oliver Lake: Matador of 1st and 1st (Passin' Thru)
24. Jim Hall: Textures (Telarc)
25. Eddie Harris Quartet: Freedom Jazz Dance (MusicMasters)