WNUR Jazz Report, 6/2/97
Reports compiled by:
Seth Tisue and Jason Karaian
jazz-md@wnur.org
(847) 491-7102
Evanston, IL
ADDS THIS WEEK
[New releases]
@ denotes not real new
- Shim: Shim (Big Tiny)
Ornette/Cherry style freebop meets more modern sounds sometimes
somewhat a la Debris (Boston), Vandermark Five (Chicago). Keith
Hedger (cornet) leads. http://205.240.231.143/shim for
info.
- Maneri/Morris/Maneri@: Three Men Walking (ECM)
1996 release by Boston guitarist (Morris) with father-son (Joe,
reeds/piano; Mat, violin) team. Sort of circa-1960 Giuffre meets
trio Ayler, "thinking jazz and chamber music in every sound".
- Charles Gayle Quartet: Delivered (2.13.61)
Gospel-flavored date with a new quartet (James Jones (piano),
Gerald Benson (bass), Kalil Madi (drums)). Check out the booklet
for a photo of Gayle made up in his street mime persona.
- Carlos Bechegas Trio: Projects (Leo)
- Oberg/Wolf/Fischer: <LO> (Leo)
- Natsuki Tamura & Satoko Fujii: How Many? (Leo)
- Aardvark Jazz Orchestra: Psalms & Elegies (Leo)
- Louis Hayes & Woody Shaw: Swiss Radio Days vol. 5 (TCB)
- Buck Clayton All Stars: Swiss Radio Days vol. 7 (TCB)
- N.Y. Hardbop Quintet@: Rokermotion (TCB)
- Richie Vitale Quintet@: Live at Smalls (TCB)
- Ed Neumeister@: The Mohican and the Great Spirit (TCB)
- Bun-Ching Lam: . . .Like Water (Tzadik)
- Compostela: Wadachi (Tzadik)
- Homler/Waegeman/Fajt: Corne de Vache (Victo)
[New reissues]
@ denotes not real new
- Spontaneous Music Ensemble: Quintessence 1 (1973-4) (Emanem)
- Spontaneous Music Ensemble: Quintessence 2 (1973-4) (Emanem)
Two LP's worth of live music from 1974 by John Stevens with Evan
Parker, Derek Bailey, Trevor Watts, and Kent Carter. Each disc
contains supplemental previously unreleased material:
Stevens/Watts/Carter (first CD) and Stevens/Watts (second CD).
- Teddy Wilson: How High the Moon? (Tradition)
- George Lewis: Jazz Funeral in New Orleans (Tradition)
- Louis Armstrong/King Oliver/Bessie Smith: High Society (Tradition)
- James P. Johnson: Runnin' Wild (1921-26) (Tradition)
- Pete Fountain: New Orleans All-Stars (Tradition)
[Not new, but new to our collection]
- Dave Holland: Emerald Tears (ECM)
JAZZ SHOW TOP 25
These are the top 25 releases ranked by actual total airplay by our
20-odd jazz DJ's for the week ending May 31, 1997.
* denotes reissue, @ denotes not real new.
- Fred Anderson: Fred Anderson/DKV Trio (OkkaDisk)
- Hamiet Bluiett*: Im/possible to Keep (2 CD's) (India Navigation)
- DKV Trio: DKV Live (OkkaDisk)
- Hamid Drake & Mats Gustafsson: For Don Cherry (OkkaDisk)
- Anthony Braxton & Georg Graewe: Duo (Amsterdam) 1991 (OkkaDisk)
- Ned Rothenberg@: Power Lines (New World)
- Steve Lacy: Bye-Ya (Free Lance)
- Hersch/Moore/Hemingway: Thirteen Ways (GM)
- John Coltrane*: Blue Train (Blue Note)
- Werner Dafeldecker & Uli Fussenegger@: Bogengaenge (Durian)
- DKV Trio: Baraka (OkkaDisk)
- Elias Haslanger: For the Moment (Heart)
- Sun Ra & his Intergalaxtic Arkestra: Stardust From Tomorrow (2 CD's) (Leo)
- Tatsu Aoki: Live at Blue Rider Theatre (IEL)
- Derek Bailey@: Aida (Dexter's Cigar)
- Steam: Real Time (Eighth Day)
- Charlie Parker*: Yardbird Suite (2 CD's) (Rhino)
- Muhal Richard Abrams & Marty Ehrlich: The Open Air Meeting (New World)
- Shim: Shim (Big Tiny)
- Debris: Errata (Eighth Day)
- Frank Foster: Leo Rising (Arabesque)
- East Down Septet: Channel Surfing (Hep)
- various: CIMPosium Vol. 2 (CIMP)
- Benny Carter: New York Nights (MusicMasters)
- Mark Elf: A Minor Scramble (Jen Bay)
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