WNUR Jazz Report, 10/15/97

NEWS

• This is a special catch-up jazz report containing a list of adds from July that never got sent out, plus monthly charts for June, July, August, and September. Sorry to dump all this raw data on you at once. The next report will contain current info.

ADDS

[New releases]

• Roscoe Mitchell: Sound Songs (2 CD's) (Delmark)
  The first solo recordings by Mitchell in many years. Some tracks employ overdubbing of multiple reeds and "little instruments".
• Ivano Torre: Primadorainpoi (Altri Suoni)
• Chris Kelsey Trio: The Ingenious Gentleman of the Lower East Side (CIMP)
• Christopher Cauley: FINland (Eremite)
• Raphe Malik: The Short Form (Eremite)

[New reissues]

• Famoudou Don Moye: Jam For Your Life (AECO/Southport)
• Johnny Coles@: Little Johnny C (Blue Note)
• Ornette Coleman: In All Languages (Harmolodic/Verve)
• Cecil Taylor: Nefertiti, the Beautiful One Has Come (2 CD's) (Revenant)
• Derek Bailey & Min Tanaka: Music and Dance (Revenant)

[Not new, but new to our collection]

• Kenny Dorham: Trompeta Toccata (Blue Note)
• Eric Dolphy: Candid Dolphy (Candid)
• Lennie Tristano Quintet: Live at Birdland 1949 (Jazz Records)
• Curtis Fuller Sextette: Imagination (Savoy)

TOP 50: SEPTEMBER 1997

1. Cecil Taylor*: Nefertiti, the Beautiful One Has Come (2 CD's) (Revenant)
2. Raphe Malik: The Short Form (Eremite)
3. Fred Anderson: Fred: Chicago Chamber Music (2 CD's) (Southport)
4. Riot Trio: Riot Trio (Day Job)
5. Ornette Coleman*: In All Languages (Harmolodic/Verve)
6. Dean/Dunmall/Levin/Rogers/Rudd/Tippett: Bladik (Cuneiform)
7. Joe Morris Quartet: You Be Me (Soul Note)
8. Steve Lacy: 5 x Monk, 5 x Lacy (Silkheart)
9. McPhee/Vandermark/Kessler: A Meeting in Chicago (Eighth Day)
10. Matt Moran: Larobok I (Geode)
11. James Moody & Mark Turner: Warner Jams Vol. 2 (Warner Bros.)
12. Davis/Beirach/Moutin: Explorations and Impressions (Double-Time)
13. Roscoe Mitchell: Sound Songs (2 CD's) (Delmark)
14. Ernest Dawkins New Horizons Ensemble: Chicago Now--Thirty Years of Great Black Music, Vol. 2 (Silkheart)
15. Doneda/Papaux/Zbinden: Instant Songs (For 4 Ears)
16. Roy Hargrove's Crisol: Habana (Verve)
17. Matthew Shipp Quartet: The Flow of Things (2.13.61)
18. Chris Kelsey Trio: The Ingenious Gentleman of the Lower East Side (CIMP)
19. various*: FMP Story (Musica Jazz)
20. various: Sonance Quarry (Tautology)
21. Andrew Cyrille & Richard Teitelbaum: Double Clutch (Silkheart)
22. Phillip Johnston: Normalology (Eighth Day)
23. Derek Bailey & Min Tanaka*: Music and Dance (Revenant)
24. David Murray*: Flowers for Albert (2 CD's) (India Navigation)
25. Andrew Cyrille Quintet: Ode to the Living Tree (Evidence)
26. Clusone Trio: Love Henry (Gramavision)
27. Zusaan Kali Fasteau: Sensual Hearing (Flying Note)
28. Ab Baars: Verderame (GeestGronden)
29. Famoudou Don Moye*: Jam For Your Life (AECO/Southport)
30. Duke Ellington: Berlin '65/Paris '67 (Pablo)
31. Lee Konitz: It's You (Steeplechase)
32. Simultan Quartett: Speech (For 4 Ears)
33. Abdullah Ibrahim: Cape Town Flowers (Enja)
34. Ray Charles*: Genius+Soul=Jazz (Rhino)
35. various: Ambiances Magnetiques Vol. 2 (Ambiances Magnetiques)
36. Christopher Cauley: FINland (Eremite)
37. Sylvie Courvoisier: Birds of a Feather (Unit)
38. Ivano Torre: Primadorainpoi (Altri Suoni)
39. Broken Wire: Broken Wire (Eighth Day)
40. Johnny Coles@*: Little Johnny C (Blue Note)
41. Kismet: Curious Yellow (Daisy Lane)
42. Mads Vinding Trio: The Kingdom (Stunt)
43. Bill Watrous: Space Available (Double-Time)
44. Bill Dixon: Vade Mecum II (Soul Note)
45. Pierre Favre: Portrait (Unit)
46. various: Jazzgalerie Nickelsdorf: The 20th Anniversary Album (no label)
47. Jeff Colella Trio: Letting Go (Sea Breeze)
48. Steve Lacy: Bye-Ya (Free Lance)
49. George Russell Living Time Orchestra: It's About Time (Label Bleu)
50. Richie Vitale Quintet@: live at smalls (TCB)

TOP 50: AUGUST 1997

1. Cecil Taylor*: Nefertiti, the Beautiful One Has Come (2 CD's) (Revenant)
2. Ornette Coleman*: In All Languages (Harmolodic/Verve)
3. Davis/Beirach/Moutin: Explorations and Impressions (Double-Time)
4. Roscoe Mitchell: Sound Songs (2 CD's) (Delmark)
5. Derek Bailey & Min Tanaka*: Music and Dance (Revenant)
6. Raphe Malik: The Short Form (Eremite)
7. Ernest Dawkins New Horizons Ensemble: Chicago Now--Thirty Years of Great Black Music, Vol. 2 (Silkheart)
8. Bill Dixon: Vade Mecum II (Soul Note)
9. McPhee/Vandermark/Kessler: A Meeting in Chicago (Eighth Day)
10. David Murray*: Flowers for Albert (2 CD's) (India Navigation)
11. Roy Hargrove's Crisol: Habana (Verve)
12. Matthew Shipp Quartet: The Flow of Things (2.13.61)
13. Chris Kelsey Trio: The Ingenious Gentleman of the Lower East Side (CIMP)
14. Simultan Quartett: Speech (For 4 Ears)
15. Christopher Cauley: FINland (Eremite)
16. Fred Anderson: Fred: Chicago Chamber Music (2 CD's) (Southport)
17. Riot Trio: Riot Trio (Day Job)
18. Pierre Favre: Portrait (Unit)
19. various: Jazzgalerie Nickelsdorf: The 20th Anniversary Album (no label)
20. Lee Konitz: It's You (Steeplechase)
21. Matt Moran: Larobok I (Geode)
22. Dean/Dunmall/Levin/Rogers/Rudd/Tippett: Bladik (Cuneiform)
23. Broken Wire: Broken Wire (Eighth Day)
24. Andrew Cyrille & Richard Teitelbaum: Double Clutch (Silkheart)
25. Andrew Cyrille Quintet: Ode to the Living Tree (Evidence)
26. various*: FMP Story (Musica Jazz)
27. Joe Morris Quartet: You Be Me (Soul Note)
28. Doneda/Papaux/Zbinden: Instant Songs (For 4 Ears)
29. Jeff Colella Trio: Letting Go (Sea Breeze)
30. Clusone Trio: Love Henry (Gramavision)
31. Abdullah Ibrahim: Cape Town Flowers (Enja)
32. Zusaan Kali Fasteau: Sensual Hearing (Flying Note)
33. various: Sonance Quarry (Tautology)
34. Steve Lacy: Bye-Ya (Free Lance)
35. George Russell Living Time Orchestra: It's About Time (Label Bleu)
36. Johnny Coles@*: Little Johnny C (Blue Note)
37. Kismet: Curious Yellow (Daisy Lane)
38. Richie Vitale Quintet@: live at smalls (TCB)
39. Steve Lacy: 5 x Monk, 5 x Lacy (Silkheart)
40. Ab Baars: Verderame (GeestGronden)
41. Ray Charles*: Genius+Soul=Jazz (Rhino)
42. Mads Vinding Trio: The Kingdom (Stunt)
43. Sylvie Courvoisier: Birds of a Feather (Unit)
44. Steam: Real Time (Eighth Day)
45. Famoudou Don Moye*: Jam For Your Life (AECO/Southport)
46. Hamid Drake & Mats Gustafsson: For Don Cherry (OkkaDisk)
47. Barrett Deems*: Deemus (Delmark)
48. James Moody & Mark Turner: Warner Jams Vol. 2 (Warner Bros.)
49. Junk: Continuation of Madness (Faffco)
50. Ivano Torre: Primadorainpoi (Altri Suoni)

TOP 50: JULY 1997

1. Ernest Dawkins New Horizons Ensemble: Chicago Now--Thirty Years of Great Black Music, Vol. 2 (Silkheart)
2. Fred Anderson: Fred: Chicago Chamber Music (2 CD's) (Southport)
3. Andrew Cyrille & Richard Teitelbaum: Double Clutch (Silkheart)
4. David Murray*: Flowers for Albert (2 CD's) (India Navigation)
5. Duke Ellington: Berlin '65/Paris '67 (Pablo)
6. Hamid Drake & Mats Gustafsson: For Don Cherry (OkkaDisk)
7. Chicago Underground Orchestra: Playground (no label)
8. Bailey/Metheny/Bendian/Wertico: The Sign of 4 (3 CD's) (Knitting Factory)
9. Steam: Real Time (Eighth Day)
10. Riot Trio: Riot Trio (Day Job)
11. Clusone Trio: Love Henry (Gramavision)
12. Roy Hargrove's Crisol: Habana (Verve)
13. Abdullah Ibrahim: Cape Town Flowers (Enja)
14. San: Song (Nor-CD)
15. Nigel Coombes & Steve Beresford: Two to Tangle (Emanem)
16. Zusaan Kali Fasteau: Sensual Hearing (Flying Note)
17. Maneri/Morris/Maneri@: Three Men Walking (ECM)
18. Matthew Shipp Quartet: The Flow of Things (2.13.61)
19. Bill Watrous: Space Available (Double-Time)
20. Andrew Cyrille Quintet: Ode to the Living Tree (Evidence)
21. various*: FMP Story (Musica Jazz)
22. Steve Lacy: 5 x Monk, 5 x Lacy (Silkheart)
23. Gianluigi Trovesi Octet: Les Hommes Armes (Soul Note)
24. Ab Baars: Verderame (GeestGronden)
25. Lee Konitz: It's You (Steeplechase)
26. Cannonball Adderley Quintet: Paris, 1960 (Pablo)
27. Bill Dixon: Vade Mecum II (Soul Note)
28. Andy Goodrich: Motherless Child (Delmark)
29. McPhee/Vandermark/Kessler: A Meeting in Chicago (Eighth Day)
30. DKV Trio: Baraka (OkkaDisk)
31. Matt Moran: Larobok I (Geode)
32. Joe Morris Quartet: You Be Me (Soul Note)
33. Doneda/Papaux/Zbinden: Instant Songs (For 4 Ears)
34. Steve Lacy: Bye-Ya (Free Lance)
35. Fred Anderson: Fred Anderson/DKV Trio (OkkaDisk)
36. Debris: Errata (Eighth Day)
37. George Russell Living Time Orchestra: It's About Time (Label Bleu)
38. Helge Hinteregger: The Comforts of Madness (Durian)
39. Glenn Horiuchi@: Mercy (Music & Arts)
40. Phillip Johnston: Normalology (Eighth Day)
41. Ned Rothenberg@: Power Lines (New World)
42. Barrett Deems*: Deemus (Delmark)
43. Spontaneous Music Ensemble: Quintessence 1 (Emanem)
44. Jeff Colella Trio: Letting Go (Sea Breeze)
45. Ron Affif Trio: Ringside (Pablo)
46. Eugene Chadbourne & John Zorn@: In Memory of Nikki Arane (Incus)
47. Joseph Jarman & Famoudou Don Moye*: Egwu-Anwu (Sun Song) (2 CD's) (India Navigation)
48. various: Sonance Quarry (Tautology)
49. Spontaneous Music Ensemble: Quintessence 2 (Emanem)
50. various: The October Revolution (Evidence)

TOP 50: JUNE 1997

1. Fred Anderson: Fred: Chicago Chamber Music (2 CD's) (Southport)
2. McPhee/Vandermark/Kessler: A Meeting in Chicago (Eighth Day)
3. Steve Lacy: Bye-Ya (Free Lance)
4. Lee Konitz: It's You (Steeplechase)
5. Joseph Jarman & Famoudou Don Moye*: Egwu-Anwu (Sun Song) (2 CD's) (India Navigation)
6. Fred Anderson: Fred Anderson/DKV Trio (OkkaDisk)
7. Steam: Real Time (Eighth Day)
8. DKV Trio: DKV Live (OkkaDisk)
9. N.Y. Hardbop Quintet@: Rokermotion (TCB)
10. Spontaneous Music Ensemble: Quintessence 2 (Emanem)
11. various: Sonance Quarry (Tautology)
12. Italian Instabile Orchestra@: Skies of Europe (ECM)
13. Hamid Drake & Mats Gustafsson: For Don Cherry (OkkaDisk)
14. Cannonball Adderley Quintet: Paris, 1960 (Pablo)
15. various: The October Revolution (Evidence)
16. various*: Critics' Pick Sampler Vol. 1 (Black Saint/Soul Note)
17. Broken Wire: Broken Wire (Eighth Day)
18. Irene Schweizer: Many and One Direction (Intakt)
19. Chicago Underground Orchestra: Playground (no label)
20. DKV Trio: Baraka (OkkaDisk)
21. various: Jazzgalerie Nickelsdorf: The 20th Anniversary Album (no label)
22. Debris: Errata (Eighth Day)
23. Louis Hayes & Woody Shaw: Swiss Radio Days vol. 5 (TCB)
24. Joe Pass Quartet: Nuages (Pablo)
25. David Murray*: Flowers for Albert (2 CD's) (India Navigation)
26. Oliver Lake: Matador of 1st and 1st (Passin' Thru)
27. John Coltrane*: Blue Train (Blue Note)
28. Buck Clayton All Stars: Swiss Radio Days vol. 7 (TCB)
29. Louis Armstrong/King Oliver/Bessie Smith*: High Society (Tradition)
30. Muhal Richard Abrams@: One Line, Two Views (New World)
31. Hersch/Moore/Hemingway: Thirteen Ways (GM)
32. Anthony Braxton & Georg Graewe: Duo (Amsterdam) 1991 (OkkaDisk)
33. Charles Gayle Quartet: Delivered (2.13.61)
34. Ray Brown: Super Bass (Telarc)
35. Clifford Jordan Big Band: Play What You Feel (Mapleshade)
36. Charlie Parker*: Yardbird Suite (2 CD's) (Rhino)
37. various: CIMPosium Vol. 2 (CIMP)
38. Shim: Shim (Big Tiny)
39. Cecil Payne: Scotch and Milk (Delmark)
40. Andrew Cyrille Quintet: Ode to the Living Tree (Evidence)
41. Sun Ra & his Intergalaxtic Arkestra: Stardust From Tomorrow (2 CD's) (Leo)
42. Elias Haslanger: For the Moment (Heart)
43. Cecil McBee*: Alternate Spaces (India Navigation)
44. Parker/Guy/Lytton & Marilyn Crispell: Natives and Aliens (Leo)
45. Zusaan Kali Fasteau: Sensual Hearing (Flying Note)
46. Phillip Johnston: Normalology (Eighth Day)
47. Carlos Garnett: Fuego En Mi Alma (HighNote)
48. Anthony Davis/James Newton Quartet*: Hidden Voices (India Navigation)
49. Ned Rothenberg@: Power Lines (New World)
50. Collective 4tet: Orca (Leo)