WNUR Jazz Report, 4/30/98

89.3 WNUR FM, "Chicago's Sound Experiment"
Jazz Show: Weekdays 5 am - 12:30 pm
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Jason Karaian, Jazz Music Director
jazz-md@wnur.org
(847) 491-7102
1920 Campus Dr.
Evanston, IL 60208 USA

News & events

Seth Tisue, Jazz Producer
jazz-producer@wnur.org

NEWS

WNUR will soon be broadcasting worldwide over the Internet via RealAudio technology. The official launch date is May 22nd, but the signal is available now on a test basis -- if you're interested in trying it out early, contact us for the URL.
So far we have two special broadcasts planned in association with the Empty Bottle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music, May 8-10 (see http://www.emptybottle.com/feature/98jzinfo.html for background on the performers, but trust http://www.cs.nwu.edu/~tisue/chicagonow/ for up-to-date schedule info):

Friday, May 1st, 11:00am
Live interview with Empty Bottle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music organizers Ken Vandermark and John Corbett, discussing the music of Joe Harriott, the late British (Jamaican expatriate) saxophonist and composer whose explorations in "free form" jazz paralleled simultaneous independent developments in the United States. On the opening night of the festival, Vandermark will lead a group presenting exclusively Harriott compositions.
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Wednesday, May 6th, 11:00am
Live performance by the Chicago duo of Jim Baker (synthesizers) and Michael Zerang (percussion), two veteran improvisors who have been instrumental as far back as in the early 1980's in laying the groundwork for the flowering of improvised music in Chicago in the last few years. Tune in for a preview of the telepathic, panidiomatic improvisations they'll present at the festival on Saturday night.
We were pleased to present a live interview last week with New York pianist Michael Weiss, who was in town for his yearly appearance at the Jazz Showcase with the Johnny Griffin Quartet. Weiss also led a trio at the Jazz Record Mart in a concert celebrating the release of his brand new CD out on the DIW label by his own quartet featuring ex-Chicago tenor player Eric Alexander.
We'll be sending out the results of our "Best of 1997" poll shortly.

MONTHLY TOP 50

These are the top 50 releases ranked by actual total airplay by our 20+ jazz DJ's for the month of March 1998.

* denotes reissue, @ denotes not real new.

John Zorn* - The Parachute Years (7 CD's) - Tzadik
Abrams/Dewar/Barry - Calamities Break - Savage Sound Syndicate
Sten Sandell - Behind the Chords - LJ
Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges* - Play the Blues Back to Back - Verve
Myra Melford & Han Bennink@ - Eleven Ghosts - hatOLOGY
"Baby Face" Willette* - Face to Face - Blue Note
John Lindberg Ensemble - Bounce - Black Saint
Edward Wilkerson Jr.@ - The Path - Sound Aspects
Music Revelation Ensemble - Cross Fire - DIW
Houtkamp/Van Hove/Prins - Live in Canada - X-OR
Steve Lacy - Associates - Robi Droli
Brad Shepik and the Commuters - The Loan - Songlines
Gerry Mulligan* - Meets Ben Webster - Verve
Planet Construction - When Granny Sleeps - Storyville
Haden/Allen/Motian - The Montreal Tapes - Verve
Horace Silver Quintet* - Further Explorations - Blue Note
Scott Fields Ensemble - Sonotropism - Music & Arts
Various - A Chicago Jazz Tour - Big Chicago
Bluiett Baritone Saxophone Group - Live at the Knitting Factory - Knitting Factory
Sun Ra and his Arkestra* - Cosmo Sun Connection - Recommended
Miles Davis Quintet@ - Miles Smiles - Columbia
Konitz/Mehldau/Haden - Alone Together - Blue Note
Dewey Redman - In London - Palmetto
John Zorn Masada - Tet - DIW
Coleman Hawkins* - Encounters Ben Webster - Verve
Abbey Rader w/ David Liebman - Inner Voices - Abray
Kowald/Ludi/Morris/Namchylak@ - When the Sun is Out You Don't See Stars - FMP
Steve Lacy@* - Trio Live - Robi Droli
Blue Green Desires - Phone 3 Phone - Extraplatte
Brad Mehldau - The Art of the Trio - Warner Bros.
Kenny Barron - Things Unseen - Verve
Club Foot Orchestra - Plays Nino Rota - Rastascan
Spontaneous Music Ensemble - Withdrawal (1966-7) - Emanem
Vandermark 5 - Live at the Empty Bottle - Savage Sound Syndicate
Matt Darriau Paradox Trio - Flying at a Slant - Knitting Factory
Various* - Critics' Pick Sampler (Vol. 2) - Black Saint/Soul Note
Malachi Thompson - 47th Street - Delmark
Mengelberg/Gustafsson/Prins - Live in Holland '97 X-OR
Kaffe Matthews - cdAnn - Annette Works
Human Feel@ - Speak to it - Songlines
Marty Ehrlich & Ben Goldberg - Light at the Crossroads - Songlines
Clark/Thorn/Fell - Isthmus - GAS
Java Men - Void - self release
Charlie Haden & Kenny Barron - Night and The City - Verve
Haden/Rubalcaba/Motian - The Montreal Tapes - Verve
various - CIMPosium Volume 3 CIMP
Kansas City Band - KC After Dark - Verve
Lennart Aberg 4 The Zone - Mirrors
Billy Bang - Bang On! - Justin Time
Naftule's Dream - Search for the Golden Dreydl - Tzadik

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