WNUR Jazz Report, 11/10/97

NEWS

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ADDS THIS WEEK

[New releases]

• Mats Gustafsson: Improposition (Phono Suecia)
  It's a CD -- it's an 80 page hardcover book -- it's a multimedia CD-ROM! Solo saxophone. See http://www.mic.stim.se/.
• Vandermark 5: Live at the Empty Bottle (Savage Sound Syndicate)
  Not available in stores (or anywhere else)! Many of these tunes will appear on the group's next CD for Atavistic. Their regular Tuesday night concerts at the Empty Bottle will resume in December.

WEEKLY TOP 25

* denotes reissue, @ denotes not real new.

1. Lee Morgan@*: Live at the Lighthouse (3 CD's) (Blue Note)
2. Joe McPhee Quartet@: Legend Street One (CIMP)
3. Nuzion Big Band: Hallelujah! (Third Eye)
4. Brotzmann/Gania/Drake: The "WELS" Concert (OkkaDisk)
5. Ellery Eskelin: One Great Day (hatOLOGY)
6. Miles Davis*: Live-Evil (2 CD's) (Columbia)
7. ROVA: Morphological Echo (Rastascan)
8. Ken McIntyre*: The Complete United Artists Sessions (2 CD's) (Blue Note)
9. Henry Threadgill & Make a Move: Where's Your Cup? (Columbia)
10. Art Farmer: Live at Stanford Jazz Workshop (Monarch)
11. Tim Berne/Bloodcount: Discretion (Screwgun)
12. Dizzy Gillespie: Bird Songs (Telarc)
13. Fred Frith Guitar Quartet: Ayaya Moses (Ambiances Magnetique)
14. Sweet Basil Trio: You're My Everything (Evidence)
15. Dave Douglas: Stargazer (Arabesque)
16. Coleman Hawkins*: Encounters Ben Webster (Verve)
17. King/Bluiett Trio: Makin' Whoopee (Mapleshade)
18. FJF: Blow Horn (OkkaDisk)
19. Art Blakey*: Orgy in Rhythm (Blue Note)
20. Carlo Actis Dato Quartet: Blue Cairo (Splasc(h))
21. Gold Sparkle Band: Downsizing (Nu)
22. John Zorn & Bobby Previte: Euclid's Nightmare (Depth of Field)
23. Chicago Jazz Ensemble: The Chicago Jazz Ensemble (CMG)
24. Phil Durrant: Sowari (Acta)
25. Jimmy Smith*: A New Sound, A New Star (2 CD's) (Blue Note)