WNUR Jazz Report, 12/1/97

NEWS

• Forgot to mention the URL for Leo Records last time: it's <http://www.atlas.co.uk/leorecords/>.

ADDS THIS WEEK

[New releases]

• Billy Bang: Bang On! (Justin Time)
• Joey Baron: Down Home (Intuition)
• Konitz/Mehldau/Haden: Alone Together (Blue Note)
• Jaki Byard & David Eyges: Night Leaves (Brownstone)
• Billy Hart: Oceans of Time (Arabesque)
• Mick Rossi Trio: Inside the Sphere (CJR)
• Clay Jenkins: Yellow Flowers After (CMG)
• Music Revelation Ensemble: Cross Fire (DIW)
• Steve Khan: Got My Mental (Evidence)
• James Spaulding: The Smile of the Snake (HighNote)
• Hilario Duran Cuban Jazz All Stars: Killer Tumbao (Justin Time)
• C.I. Williams: When Alto Was King (Mapleshade)
• Hank Crawford & Jimmy McGriff: Road Tested (Milestone)
• Lennart Aberg 4: The Zone (Mirrors)
• Don Braden: The Voice of the Saxophone (RCA)
• Bradley Williams and his Original 21st Century Review: Songs for Swinging Sophisticates, Volume One (Sideways)
• John Stetch: Steching Out (Terra Nova)
• Kansas City Band: KC After Dark (Verve)

[New reissues]

• Randy Weston: How High the Moon (Biograph)
• various: Crime Jazz: Music in the First Degree (Rhino)
• various: Crime Jazz: Music in the Second Degree (Rhino)

[Not new, but new to our collection]

• Blue Green Desires: Phone 3 Phone (Extraplatte)
• European Chaos String Quintet: European Chaos String Quintet (For 4 Ears)
• Ivo Perelman: Soccer Land (Ibeji)
• Sachse/Moss/Lewis: Berlin Tango (ITM)
• Susanna Lindeborg: Susanna Lindeborg (LJ)
• Machine Gun: Open Fire (Mu)

WEEKLY TOP 25

* denotes reissue, @ denotes not real new.

1. Steve Lacy: Associates (Robi Droli)
2. Miles Davis*: In Concert (2 CD's) (Columbia)
3. Konitz/Mehldau/Haden: Alone Together (Blue Note)
4. Mats Gustafsson: Impropositions (Phono Suecia)
5. Ellery Eskelin: One Great Day (hatOLOGY)
6. Fred Frith Guitar Quartet: Ayaya Moses (Ambiances Magnetique)
7. Tim Berne/Paraphrase: Visitation (Screwgun)
8. Le Quan Ninh: Ustensiles (For 4 Ears)
9. Tim Berne/Bloodcount: Discretion (Screwgun)
10. Carlo Actis Dato Quartet: Blue Cairo (Splasc(h))
11. William Parker & the Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra: Sunrise in the Tone World (2 CD's) (AUM Fidelity)
12. Ethnic Heritage Ensemble: 21st Century Union March (Silkheart)
13. Lee Morgan@*: Live at the Lighthouse (3 CD's) (Blue Note)
14. Bennink/Borstlap/Glerum: 3 (VIA)
15. various: CIMPosium Volume 3 (CIMP)
16. Henry Threadgill & Make a Move: Where's Your Cup? (Columbia)
17. William Hooker & Billy Bang: Joy (Within)! (Silkheart)
18. Vandermark 5: Live at the Empty Bottle (Savage Sound Syndicate)
19. Coleman Hawkins*: Encounters Ben Webster (Verve)
20. Bradfield/Centazzo/Chadbourne/Cora/Kondo/Zorn@*: Environment for Sextet (Robi Droli)
21. Ensemble Sondarc: For Four Rooms (For 4 Ears)
22. Brotzmann/Gania/Drake: The "WELS" Concert (OkkaDisk)
23. Jim Hall: Live at the Village Vanguard (Telarc)
24. Sten Sandell & Simon Steensland: Under Oknar (Ranko Rednu) I-XII (UAE)
25. Sakis Papadimitriou & Lefteris Agouridakis: Plus and Minus (Leo)