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WNUR Jazz: March 1997 Top 50

Compiled by:
Seth Tisue, Jazz Music Director
jazz-md@wnur.org
(847) 491-7102
1920 Campus Dr., Evanston IL 60208

These are the top 50 releases month by month, based on actual tabulated airplay by our 20-odd jazz DJ's.
* denotes reissue, @ denotes not real new.
  1. Fred Anderson*: The Missing Link (Nessa)
  2. Tim Berne's Bloodcount: Unwound (3 CD's) (Screwgun)
  3. Blonk/Gustafsson/Zerang: Blonk, Gustafsson & Zerang (Kontrans)
  4. Assif Tsahar: Shekhina ( Eremite)
  5. Vandermark Five: Single Piece Flow (Atavistic)
  6. Lou Grassi Saxtet: Quick Wits (CJR)
  7. Jemeel Moondoc: Tri-P-Let (Eremite)
  8. John Zorn Masada Chamber Ensembles@: Bar Kokhba (2 CD's) (Tzadik)
  9. Ellery Eskelin & Andrea Parkins: Green Bermudas (Eremite)
  10. Mingus Big Band: Live in Time (2 CD's) (Dreyfus)
  11. Briggan Krauss: Good Kitty (Knitting Factory Works)
  12. John Patton*: Accent on the Blues (Blue Note)
  13. Jimmy McGriff*: Electric Funk (Blue Note)
  14. Charlie Haden & Pat Metheny: Beyond the Missouri Sky (Verve)
  15. Cecil McBee: Unspoken (Palmetto)
  16. various: The Thunderclaps CD (X-OR)
  17. Junko Onishi: Live at the Village Vanguard (Blue Note)
  18. Hamid Drake & Michael Zerang: Ask the Sun (OkkaDisk)
  19. Gregg Bendian: Gregg Bendian's Interzone (Eremite)
  20. Roy Haynes: True or False (Evidence)
  21. David S. Ware Quartet: Godspelized (DIW)
  22. Masada: Zayin (Seven) (DIW)
  23. Earl Hines*: At Home (Delmark)
  24. Kenny Barron & Mino Cinelu: Swamp Sally (Verve)
  25. Conrad Herwig@: The Latin Side of John Coltrane (Astor Place)
  26. Ted Sirota's Rebel Souls: Rebel Roots (Naim)
  27. Stanley Turrentine*: Easy Walker (Blue Note)
  28. John Carter & Bobby Bradford: Tandem 2 (Emanem)
  29. Prima Materia: Bells (Knitting Factory Works)
  30. Frank Morgan: Bop! ( Telarc)
  31. Manhattan Projects: We Remember Cannonball (Evidence)
  32. Lennie Tristano*: Manhattan Studio (Jazz Records)
  33. Jimmy McGriff: The Dream Team (Milestone)
  34. Albert Nicholas/Art Hodes Quartet*: The New Orleans-Chicago Connection (Delmark)
  35. Northwoods Improvisers: Spinning (Arc)
  36. Vinny Golia Quintet@: Razor (9 Winds)
  37. Branford Marsalis Trio: The Dark Keys (Columbia)
  38. George Lewis & Don Ewell*: Reunion (Delmark)
  39. Glenn Horiuchi@: Hilltop View (Music & Arts)
  40. Wayne Horvitz & Zony Mash: Cold Spell (Knitting Factory Works)
  41. Marc Cary: Listen (Arabesque)
  42. Scott Fields: Disaster at Sea (Music & Arts)
  43. Donald Byrd*: Street Lady (Blue Note)
  44. Brian Gephart & Bob Long Quartet: Water Logic (no label)
  45. David Murray@: David Murray/James Newton Quintet (DIW)
  46. Lewis/Brown/etc.: Clear Blue (Darwin Gross)
  47. Frank Foster: Leo Rising (Arabesque)
  48. Bert Wilson & Rebirth: Endless Fingers (Arabesque)
  49. Ella Fitzgerald*: Sings the Blues (Prestige)
  50. Bob Nieske's Wolf Soup: My Desire (GM)