WNUR Jazz Report, 10/13/97

NEWS

• It's been a long time since the last WNUR Jazz Report. It was nice hearing from people who missed them. Anyway, I'm still behind on getting the CD's we've been sent into our collection and on the air, but with this big batch of adds the situation is on the way to being rectified. The weekly charts will resume next week, and I'll send out monthly charts for July, August, and September too.
• Some special features that have aired over the past few months: an interview with Australian alto player Bernie McGann; live duets by reedsmen Wolfgang Fuchs and Ken Vandermark; an interview with organist "Big" John Patton; an interview with Chicago percussionist and bandleader Damon Short; an interview with Bay Area composer/pianist/electronician Chris Brown; and a live performance by saxophonist Jack Wright from Colorado, joined by Chicagoans Matt Weston and Bob Marsh.
• We're now operating on our fall schedule; the schedule is available at http://www.wnur.org/jazzshow/. Check it to see when your favorite DJs are on.
• The Jazz Show is looking for substitute DJ's who would be available to DJ shows (particularly 5-7am) from time to time when regular DJ's have to miss shows. If you're in the Chicago area and you're interested, contact our jazz producer, Mandi Isaacs, at jazz-producer@wnur.nwu.edu.

ADDS THIS WEEK

[New releases]

• Phil Durrant: Sowari (Acta)
  Solo violin with and without electronics ; on John Butcher's label (E-mail JBacta@msn.com). Durrant's trio disc with Butcher and John Russell was a poll winner at WNUR last year.
• Jean Derome: Je me souviens (Ambiances Magnetique)
• Fred Frith Guitar Quartet: Ayaya Moses (Ambiances Magnetique)
• David S. Ware Quartet: Wisdom of Uncertainty (AUM Fidelity)
• William Parker & the Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra: Sunrise in the Tone World (2 CD's) (AUM Fidelity)
  AUM Fidelity is a new label founded by one of the guys from now-inactive Homestead Records; they have a web site at http://www.aumfidelity.com/.
• ROVA: The Works (Volume 2) (Black Saint)
  Long compositions for saxophone quartet by Tim Berne, Fred Ho, and member Jon Raskin. ROVA perform at Unity Temple in Oak Park (just outside Chicago) on November 7th.
• David Murray with Dave Burrell: Windward Passages (Black Saint)
• Geri Allen: Eyes... In the Back of Your Head (Blue Note)
  With Ornette Coleman, Wallace Roney, and Cyro Baptista.
• David Murray Quartet: Long Goodbye (DIW)
  Tribute to Don Pullen; with D.D. Jackson (piano) and rhythm.
• Michael Zerang: The Ballad of Frankie and Johnny (Eighth Day)
  Another puppet theater soundtrack composed by the Chicago percussionist and performed by Fred Lonberg-Holm (cello), Jeremy Ruthrauff (saxes, flutes), and Fred Armisen (percussion).
• Delfeayo Marsalis: Musashi (Evidence)
• Cedar Walton Sextet: The Art Blakey Legacy (Evidence)
• Anthony Wonsey Trio: Another Perspective (Evidence)
• Billy Higgins Quintet: Billy Higgins Quintet (Evidence)
• Tommy Flanagan Trio: Sea Changes (Evidence)
• Ornette Coleman & Joachim Kuhn: Colors (Harmolodic)
  Live duets. Ornette's all over the place all of a sudden.
• Matthew Shipp & Joe Morris: Thesis (hat ART)
• William Hooker: Mindfulness (Knitting Factory)
  With Glenn Spearman (reeds), DJ Olive (turntables).
• Peep: The Joy of Being (Knitting Factory)
  A group dating back to cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm's years in New York before moving to Chicago. With Michael Attias (reeds), Robert Cimino (percussion), Edward Ratliff (brass, accordion).
• Datevik: Ballads From the Black Sea (Mapleshade)
• Andy McKee and NEXT: Sound Roots (Mapleshade)
• John Voight: Outsider Bass (Moonfood)
• Scott Fields Ensemble: Five Frozen Eggs (Music & Arts)
  With Marilyn Crispell, Hamid Drake, Hans Sturm.
• Marco Eneidi & Glenn Spearman: Creative Music Orchestra (Music & Arts)
• Connie Crothers: Music from Everyday Life (New Artists)
• Gold Sparkle Band: Downsizing (Nu)
  Atlanta quartet plays raw, energetic (but not aggressive/splenetic) free jazz, claiming the ESP-Disk catalog as inspiration.
• FJF: Blow Horn (OkkaDisk)
  Mats Gustafsson (Sweden) with three-fifths of the NRG Ensemble: Ken Vandermark, Kent Kessler, and Steve Hunt.
• Brotzmann/Gania/Drake: The "WELS" Concert (OkkaDisk)
  German/Nigerian/American reeds/guembri/drums, live in Austria.
• Jon Jang Octet: Island: The Immigrant Suite No. 1 (Soul Note)
• Carlo Actis Dato Quartet: Blue Cairo (Splasc(h))
• Bernie McGann: McGann McGann (Terra Nova)
• Bernie McGann: Playground (Terra Nova)
  Australian alto player's trio sets were the highlight of the 1997 Chicago Jazz Festival.

[New reissues]

• Sonny Clark: Dial "S" For Sonny (Blue Note)
• Art Blakey: Orgy in Rhythm (Blue Note)
• Leon Sash Trio: I Remember Newport (Delmark)
• Jimmy Forrest: All the Gin is Gone (Delmark)
• Sonny Stitt: Made For Each Other (Delmark)
• Ira Sullivan: Blue Stroll (Delmark)

[Not new, but new to our collection]

• Marcello Melis: Angedras LP (Black Saint)
• Tiziana Ghiglioni: I'll Be Around LP (Soul Note)
• Mal Waldron Quintet: The Seagulls of Kristiansund LP (Soul Note)
• Cecil Taylor Unit: Dark to Themselves (Enja)
• Raphe Malik Quintet: 21st Century Texts (FMP)
• Ted Curson: Fire Down Below (OJC)