WNUR Jazz Report, 1/13/98

NEWS

• Tune in to WNUR on Monday, January 19th at 11:00am for a special in-studio live performance by Swedish free improvisor Mats Gustafsson. Gustafsson is in town with his group the AALY Trio (CD on Silkheart due out soon); they'll be playing at Unity Temple (1/17) and the Empty Bottle (1/21).

ADDS THIS WEEK

[New releases]

• Kaffe Matthews: cdAnn (Annette Works)
• Flute Force 4: Flutistry (Black Saint)
• Ethnic Heritage Ensemble: The Continuum (Delmark)
• Norrie Cox & his New Orleans Stompers: Move the Body Over (Delmark)
• Jodie Christian: Soul Fountain (Delmark)
• Malachi Thompson: 47th Street (Delmark)
• Bobby Previte: Latin For Travelers (Enja)
• Urban Voices: Not Missing Drums Project (Leo)
• Moscow Composers Orchestra: Let Peremsky Dream (Leo)
• John Wolf Brennan: Moskau-Petsuchki/Felix-Szenen (Leo)
• Satoko Fujii Orchestra: South Wind (Leo)
• Alati/Ielasi/Radaele/Sciajno: ...I am surprised while it is actually happening... (Leo)
• Han Bennink & Dave Douglas@: Serpentine (Songlines)
• Human Feel@: Speak to it (Songlines)
• Babkas@: Fratelli (Songlines)
• Paul Plimley@: Everything in Stages (Songlines)
• Marty Ehrlich & Ben Goldberg: Light at the Crossroads (Songlines)
• Brad Shepik and the Commuters: The Loan (Songlines)
• Theo Bleckmann & Ben Monder: No Boat (Songlines)
• Ben Monder Trio*: Flux (Songlines)
• Andy Laster: Interpretations of Lessness (Songlines)
• Rob Reddy's Honor System@: Post-War Euphoria (Songlines)
• The Fringe: Live in Israel (Soul Note)
• Andrew Cyrille Trio: Good to Go (Soul Note)
• Tom Varner: Martian Heartache (Soul Note)
• Paul Bley & Gary Peacock: Mindset (Soul Note)
• Eric Person: More Tales to Tell (Soul Note)
• Hamiet Bluiett: Ballads & Blues (Soul Note)
• Marc Copland Trio: Paradiso (Soul Note)
• Brotzmann/Bergman/Cyrille: Exhilaration (Soul Note)
• Edward Wilkerson Jr.@: The Path (Sound Aspects)
• Red Fire Ant Trio: Live in Iowa City (Toe Inc)
• Naftule's Dream: Search for the Golden Dreydl (Tzadik)
• Mark Dresser: Banquet (Tzadik)
• Fred Van Hove: PijP (WIMprovier)
• Houtkamp/Van Hove/Prins: Live in Canada '97 (X-OR)
• Mengelberg/Gustafsson/Prins: Live in Holland '97 (X-OR)
• Perelman/Parker/Ali: Live (Zero In)

[New reissues]

• various: Critics' Pick Sampler (Vol. 2) (Black Saint/Soul Note)
• Tab Smith: Top'n'Bottom (Delmark)
• John Zorn: The Parachute Years (7 CD's) (Tzadik)

[Not new, but new to our collection]

• Guenter Sommer: Saechsiche Schatulle (Intakt)

WEEKLY TOP 25

* denotes reissue, @ denotes not real new.

1. Le Quan Ninh: Ustensiles (For 4 Ears)
2. David S. Ware Quartet: Wisdom of Uncertainty (AUM Fidelity)
3. Tom Bruno & Sabir Mateen: Getting Away With Murder (Eremite)
4. Steve Lacy: Associates (Robi Droli)
5. Ganelin Trio*: Ancora da Capo (Leo)
6. various*: Crime Jazz: Music in the First Degree (Rhino)
7. Santi Debriano Group: Panamaniacs (Evidence)
8. Bennink/Borstlap/Glerum: 3 (VIA)
9. William Parker & the Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra: Sunrise in the Tone World (2 CD's) (AUM Fidelity)
10. Paul Rutherford: Sequences 72 & 73 (Emanem)
11. Vandermark 5: Live at the Empty Bottle (Savage Sound Syndicate)
12. Mats Gustafsson: Impropositions (Phono Suecia)
13. Ethnic Heritage Ensemble: 21st Century Union March (Silkheart)
14. Ellery Eskelin: One Great Day (hatOLOGY)
15. Jim Hall: Live at the Village Vanguard (Telarc)
16. Coleman Hawkins*: Encounters Ben Webster (Verve)
17. John Jenkins@*: With Kenny Burrell (Blue Note)
18. Ornette Coleman & Joachim Kuhn: Colors (Harmolodic)
19. Club Foot Orchestra: Plays Nino Rota (Rastascan)
20. Clay Jenkins: Yellow Flowers After (CMG)
21. Kaffe Matthews: cdAnn (Annette Works)
22. Joey Baron: Down Home (Intuition)
23. ROVA: Morphological Echo (Rastascan)
24. various*: Crime Jazz: Music in the Second Degree (Rhino)
25. FJF: Blow Horn (OkkaDisk)