WNUR Jazz Report, 6/23/97

NEWS

• Tune in every day this week at 11:00am to hear a different live tape recorded at Lunar Cabaret. The series of broadcasts began this morning with the NRG Ensemble, and will continue through the week with Hamid Drake & Michael Zerang duo, Zerang/Hunsinger/Lonberg-Holm trio, Caffeine, and Steam. In addition, we'll be interviewing Lunar music honcho Michael Greenberg Wednesday morning at 10:30. These broadcasts are timed to coincide with the final week of regular music programming at the Lunar Cabaret, a venue which has been vital to the development of new jazz and improvised music in Chicago over the last three years.

ADDS THIS WEEK

[New releases]

• Dean/Dunmall/Levin/Rogers/Rudd/Tippett: Bladik (Cuneiform)
  That's the British quartet Mujician with guests Elton Dean and from America, Roswell Rudd. After many years of relative musical inactivity, Rudd is back on the scene and recently played a series of U.S. dates with fellow trombonist Steve Swell and drummer Lou Grassi.
• Riot Trio: Riot Trio (Day Job)
  Piano trio with James Rohr and the rhythm section of Nate McBride and Curt Newton (who both work with Joe Morris and the Barrage Double Trio).
• Andrew Cyrille Quintet: Ode to the Living Tree (Evidence)
  With David Murray, Oliver Lake, Adegoke Steve Colson, Fred Hopkins.
• Ernest Dawkins New Horizons Ensemble: Chicago Now--Thirty Years of Great Black Music, Vol. 2 (Silkheart)
  From the same session as volume 1. Named in commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the AACM (Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians). With Steve Berry, Ameen Muhammad, Jeff Parker, Yosef Ben Israel, and Reggie Nicholson.
• Steve Lacy: 5 x Monk, 5 x Lacy (Silkheart)
  Solo soprano.
• Andrew Cyrille & Richard Teitelbaum: Double Clutch (Silkheart)
  Live duet recording from 1981.
• Kismet: Curious Yellow (Daisy Lane)
• Andy Goodrich: Motherless Child (Delmark)
• Cecil Payne: Scotch and Milk (Delmark)
• Joshua Breakstone: Let's Call This Monk! (Double-Time)
• Bill Watrous: Space Available (Double-Time)
• Davis/Beirach/Moutin: Explorations and Impressions (Double-Time)
• Charles Lloyd: Canto (ECM)
• Abdullah Ibrahim: Cape Town Flowers (Enja)
• Clusone Trio: Love Henry (Gramavision)
• The Subjazz Proxy: Autumn Somewhere (Lucid)
• Duke Ellington: Berlin '65/Paris '67 (Pablo)
• Mads Vinding Trio: The Kingdom (Stunt)
• Roy Hargrove's Crisol: Habana (Verve)
• James Moody & Mark Turner: Warner Jams Vol. 2 (Warner Bros.)

[New reissues]

• Barrett Deems: Deemus (Delmark)
• Ray Charles: Genius+Soul=Jazz (Rhino)

[Not new, but new to our collection]

• Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis & Shirley Scott: Jaws (OJC)
• Steve Coleman and Five Elements: Curves of Life (RCA)

WEEKLY TOP 25

* denotes reissue, @ denotes not real new.

1. Fred Anderson: Fred: Chicago Chamber Music (2 CD's) (Southport)
2. Steve Lacy: Bye-Ya (Free Lance)
3. McPhee/Vandermark/Kessler: A Meeting in Chicago (Eighth Day)
4. Lee Konitz: It's You (Steeplechase)
5. DKV Trio: DKV Live (OkkaDisk)
6. Steam: Real Time (Eighth Day)
7. Joseph Jarman & Famoudou Don Moye*: Egwu-Anwu (Sun Song) (2 CD's) (India Navigation)
8. Cannonball Adderley Quintet: Paris, 1960 (Pablo)
9. Fred Anderson: Fred Anderson/DKV Trio (OkkaDisk)
10. various: Sonance Quarry (Tautology)
11. Italian Instabile Orchestra@: Skies of Europe (ECM)
12. various*: Critics' Pick Sampler Vol. 1 (Black Saint/Soul Note)
13. Chicago Underground Orchestra: Playground (no label)
14. N.Y. Hardbop Quintet@: Rokermotion (TCB)
15. Hamid Drake & Mats Gustafsson: For Don Cherry (OkkaDisk)
16. Spontaneous Music Ensemble: Quintessence 2 (Emanem)
17. John Coltrane*: Blue Train (Blue Note)
18. Charles Gayle Quartet: Delivered (2.13.61)
19. Irene Schweizer: Many and One Direction (Intakt)
20. Oliver Lake: Matador of 1st and 1st (Passin' Thru)
21. Buck Clayton All Stars: Swiss Radio Days vol. 7 (TCB)
22. Charlie Parker*: Yardbird Suite (2 CD's) (Rhino)
23. Shim: Shim (Big Tiny)
24. Elias Haslanger: For the Moment (Heart)
25. Joe Pass Quartet: Nuages (Pablo)