WNUR Jazz Report, 10/27/97

NEWS

• WNUR is currently planning to start broadcasting over the Internet via RealAudio sometime in the next few months -- stay tuned!
• After a two week trial period of expanded airtime for WNUR News during the Jazz Show and other shows, news has returned to its old schedule. News breaks during jazz are at 8:00 (5 minutes), 9:00 (10 minutes), and at the end of the show at 12:20 (10 minutes). Listeners, if you have any comments about the amount of airtime devoted to news, or the content and quality of the newscasts, please direct them to our General Manager (gm@wnur.nwu.edu) and Program Director (program-dir@wnur.nwu.edu), or directly to the news department at news@wnur.nwu.edu.

ADDS THIS WEEK

[New releases]

• Ellery Eskelin: One Great Day (hatOLOGY)
  Live disc by the same trio that made Jazz Trash: Eskelin on tenor with Andrea Parkins on sampler and accordion and JIm Black on drums. hatOLOGY is the new imprint of hat Hut aka hat ART aka hat Jazz aka hat NOW...
• Nuzion Big Band: Hallelujah! (Third Eye)
  Expanded, nine-piece version of the Gold Sparkle Band.
• Abbey Rader w/ David Liebman: Inner Voices (Abray)
• Grismore/Scea Group: Of What (Accurate)
• Graham Haynes: Tones for the 21st Century (Antilles)
• Ron Carter: The Bass and I (Blue Note)
• Renee Rosnes: As We Are Now (Blue Note)
• Cecilia Smith: Leave No Stone Unturned (Brownstone)
• Chicago Jazz Ensemble: The Chicago Jazz Ensemble (CMG)
• Eddy Louiss Trio: Eddy Louiss Trio (Dreyfus)
• Richie Beirach Trio: The Snow Leopard (Evidence)
• Santi Debriano Group: Panamaniacs (Evidence)
• Bruce Gertz Quintet: Blueprint (Evidence)
• Barry Harris Trio: First Time Ever (Evidence)
• Jamie Baum: Sight Unheard (GM)
• The Fertile Crescent: The Fertile Crescent (Knitting Factory Works)
• Pachora: Pachora (Knitting Factory Works)
• Kazutoki Umezu: First Deserter (Knitting Factory Works)
• King/Bluiett Trio: Makin' Whoopee (Mapleshade)
• Scott Fields Ensemble: Sonotropism (Music & Arts)
• Club Foot Orchestra: Plays Nino Rota (Rastascan)
• Wally Schnalle Quintet: Why Do They Call You That? (Retlaw)
• Bobby Lewis: Flugel Gourmet (Southport)
• Joanie Pallatto & Marshall Vente: Two (Southport)
• Jim Hall: Live at the Village Vanguard (Telarc)
• Sten Sandell & Simon Steensland: Under Oknar (Ranko Rednu) I-XII (UAE)
• Hernan Lugano: Tango Walk (UMA)
• Kenny Barron: Things Unseen (Verve)
• Joe Henderson: Porgy & Bess (Verve)
• Rodney Kendrick: We Don't Die We Multiply (Verve)
• Makoto Ozone: Trio (Verve)

[New reissues]

• Houston Person: Lost & Found (32 Jazz)
• Lou Donaldson: Good Gracious (Blue Note)
• John Jenkins@: With Kenny Burrell (Blue Note)
• Cliff Jordan: Cliff Craft (Blue Note)
• Lee Morgan@: Live at the Lighthouse (3 CD's) (Blue Note)
• Horace Silver Quintet: Further Explorations (Blue Note)
• Harold Vick@: Steppin' Out (Blue Note)
• Miles Davis: Live-Evil (2 CD's) (Columbia)
• Miles Davis: In Concert (2 CD's) (Columbia)
• Coleman Hawkins: Encounters Ben Webster (Verve)

[Not new, but new to our collection]

• Jackie McLean: Demon's Dance (Blue Note)
• Lee Morgan: The Rumproller (Blue Note)
• Archie Shepp: Yasmina, A Black Woman (Charly)
• Honi Gordon: Honi Gordon Sings (OJC)

WEEKLY TOP 25

* denotes reissue, @ denotes not real new.

1. Brotzmann/Gania/Drake: The "WELS" Concert (OkkaDisk)
2. FJF: Blow Horn (OkkaDisk)
3. Art Farmer: Live at Stanford Jazz Workshop (Monarch)
4. Joe McPhee Quartet@: Legend Street One (CIMP)
5. Fred Frith Guitar Quartet: Ayaya Moses (Ambiances Magnetique)
6. David S. Ware Quartet: Wisdom of Uncertainty (AUM Fidelity)
7. William Parker & the Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra: Sunrise in the Tone World (2 CD's) (AUM Fidelity)
8. ROVA: Morphological Echo (Rastascan)
9. Henry Threadgill & Make a Move: Where's Your Cup? (Columbia)
10. Billy Bang: Commandment (No More)
11. Peep: The Joy of Being (Knitting Factory)
12. Ken McIntyre*: The Complete United Artists Sessions (2 CD's) (Blue Note)
13. Gold Sparkle Band: Downsizing (Nu)
14. William Hooker: Mindfulness (Knitting Factory)
15. Scott Fields Ensemble: Five Frozen Eggs (Music & Arts)
16. Jimmy Smith*: A New Sound, A New Star (2 CD's) (Blue Note)
17. Jon Jang Octet: Island: The Immigrant Suite No. 1 (Soul Note)
18. Dizzy Gillespie: Bird Songs (Telarc)
19. Bernie McGann: Playground (Terra Nova)
20. Dave Douglas: Stargazer (Arabesque)
21. New Orleans Klezmer All-Stars: The Big Kibosh (Shanachie)
22. Phil Durrant: Sowari (Acta)
23. Horace Tapscott: Thoughts of Dar Es Salaam (Arabesque)
24. Ornette Coleman & Joachim Kuhn: Colors (Harmolodic)
25. ROVA: The Works (Volume 2) (Black Saint)