WNUR Jazz Report, 10/20/97

NEWS

• Tune in on Thursday, October 23rd at 11:00am to hear a live performance by the Jeb Bishop Trio (Jeb Bishop (trombone), Kent Kessler (bass), Tim Mulvenna (drums)). Three-fifths of the Vandermark 5 step out on their own.
• New to the WNUR Jazz Reports? Need some background on the jazz show in general? Visit WNUR's web site at http://www.wnur.org/; on our home page, you'll find a link to the jazz show's pages as well as pages for other shows and general information on the station.
• Jason Karaian and I (Seth Tisue) will be continuing to handle jazz music directing duties this school year. You can reach both of us by addressing your mail to jazz-md@wnur.org.
• As of this week, we have resumed CMJ reporting, so if you were wondering why you haven't been seeing us in CMJ, wonder no more...
• We're now about 80% caught up on clearing our backlog of adds.

ADDS THIS WEEK

[New releases]

• Joe McPhee Quartet@: Legend Street One (CIMP)
  With Frank Lowe and Charles Moffett (the legends of the title), plus recent frequent McPhee collaborator David Prentice on violin.
• Jack Wright@: Thaw (JW)
  1993 release from this Colorado-based but highly nomadic free improvisor. The highlights are the ferocious solo saxophone tracks.
• Horace Tapscott: Thoughts of Dar Es Salaam (Arabesque)
  Trio with Ray Drummond and Billy Hart.
• Bruce Eisenbeil Trio: Nine Wings (CIMP)
  Eisenbell on guitar, with Rob Brown on alto and Lou Grassi on drums.
• John Zorn & Bobby Previte: Euclid's Nightmare (Depth of Field)
  Bite-sized duo improvisations.
• Dave Holland@: Ones All (Intuition)
  Solo recording from 1995.
• ROVA: Morphological Echo (Rastascan)
  The ROVA saxophone quartet will perform at Unity Temple in Oak Park (outside Chicago) on Friday, November 7th.
• Surya: Stretching the Edge (Surya)
  Featuring Glenn Spearman (tenor).
• Rodriguez/Filiano/Glick@: Mist (9 Winds)
• Abbey Rader & Keshavan Maslak: Suburban Utopic (Abray)
• Art Farmer: Silk Road (Arabesque)
• Ben Monder Trio: Dust (Arabesque)
• Dave Douglas: Stargazer (Arabesque)
• Andy Haas: Arnhem Land (Avant)
• Jacky Terrasson & Cassandra Wilson: Rendezvous (Blue Note)
• Charles Socci: The Visit (Brownstone)
• Wayne Horvitz: Monologue (Cavity Search)
• Henry Threadgill & Make a Move: Where's Your Cup? (Columbia)
• Abash: Jazz (Dragon)
• Sweet Basil Trio: You're My Everything (Evidence)
• Charles Earland: Blowing the Blues Away (HighNote)
• B Sharp Jazz Quartet: The Go 'Round (Mama)
• Art Farmer: Live at Stanford Jazz Workshop (Monarch)
• Joe Morris & William Parker: Invisible Weave (No More)
• Billy Bang: Commandment (No More)
• Gino Robair & Oluyemi Thomas: Unity in Multiplicity (Rastascan)
• Water Shed 5tet: Blue Plate Tectonics (Rastascan)
• Gino Robair: Singular Pleasures (Rastascan)
• New Orleans Klezmer All-Stars: The Big Kibosh (Shanachie)
• Francesco Cusa: Impasse (Splasc(h))
• Dizzy Gillespie: Bird Songs (Telarc)
• Barbara Dennerlein: Junkanoo (Verve)
• J.J. Johnson: The Brass Orchestra (Verve)
• Bluth/Messina/Chattin: Five Concerts and a Landscape (Zinnia)

[New reissues]

• Jutta Hipp@: With Zoot Sims (Blue Note)
• Sonny Red@: Out of the Blue (Blue Note)
• Ike Quebec@: Soul Samba (Blue Note)
• Horace Parlan: Us Three (Blue Note)
• Jackie McLean: Swing, Swang, Swingin' (Blue Note)
• Jimmy Smith: A New Sound, A New Star (2 CD's) (Blue Note)
• Jimmy McGriff: Greatest Hits (Blue Note)
• Cliff Jordan: Cliff Craft (Blue Note)
• Ken McIntyre: The Complete United Artists Sessions (2 CD's) (Blue Note)
• Miles Davis: Dark Magus (2 CD's) (Columbia)
• Gene Ammons: Legends of Acid Jazz (Prestige)

[Not new, but new to our collection]

• Horace Silver Quintet: 6 Pieces of Silver (Blue Note)
• Hank Mobley: A Slice of the Top (Blue Note)
• Jaki Byard: Out Front! (OJC)
• Johnny Hodges: Jazz Masters (Verve)

WEEKLY TOP 25

* denotes reissue, @ denotes not real new.

1. David S. Ware Quartet: Wisdom of Uncertainty (AUM Fidelity)
2. ROVA: The Works (Volume 2) (Black Saint)
3. William Parker & the Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra: Sunrise in the Tone World (2 CD's) (AUM Fidelity)
4. Scott Fields Ensemble: Five Frozen Eggs (Music & Arts)
5. Marco Eneidi & Glenn Spearman: Creative Music Orchestra (Music & Arts)
6. Brotzmann/Gania/Drake: The "WELS" Concert (OkkaDisk)
7. Fred Anderson: Fred: Chicago Chamber Music (2 CD's) (Southport)
8. Jon Jang Octet: Island: The Immigrant Suite No. 1 (Soul Note)
9. FJF: Blow Horn (OkkaDisk)
10. Michael Zerang: The Ballad of Frankie and Johnny (Eighth Day)
11. Cecil Taylor*: Nefertiti, the Beautiful One Has Come (2 CD's) (Revenant)
12. David Murray Quartet: Long Goodbye (DIW)
13. William Hooker: Mindfulness (Knitting Factory)
14. Fred Frith Guitar Quartet: Ayaya Moses (Ambiances Magnetique)
15. Sonny Clark*: Dial "S" For Sonny (Blue Note)
16. Matthew Shipp & Joe Morris: Thesis (hat ART)
17. Gold Sparkle Band: Downsizing (Nu)
18. Phil Durrant: Sowari (Acta)
19. Raphe Malik: The Short Form (Eremite)
20. Bernie McGann: Playground (Terra Nova)
21. Peep: The Joy of Being (Knitting Factory)
22. Geri Allen: Eyes... In the Back of Your Head (Blue Note)
23. Andrew Cyrille & Richard Teitelbaum: Double Clutch (Silkheart)
24. Clusone Trio: Love Henry (Gramavision)
25. Billy Higgins Quintet: Billy Higgins Quintet (Evidence)