WNUR Jazz Report, April 1998

89.3 WNUR FM, "Chicago's Sound Experiment"
Jazz Show: Weekdays 5 am - 12:30 pm
http://www.wnur.org/jazzshow/

Adds & charts

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 Jazz's top 15 was included in the "Charts" section of the May 1998 issue of The Wire (based in London).
• The interview we broadcast with Ken Vandermark and John Corbett about the music of British/Jamaican "free form" saxophonist and composer Joe Harriott has been transcribed and is now on the WNUR JazzWeb at <http://www.wnur.org/jazz/artists/vandermark.ken/>. Other recent interviews broadcast on WNUR recently: guitarist Bruce Eisenbeil, violinist Malcolm Goldstein.
• All outstanding Phonathon premiums have been mailed; if you contributed to WNUR and did not receive your premium, contact us and we'll straighten it out.

ADDS THIS MONTH

[New releases]

• Matthew Shipp Trio - The Multiplication Table - hatOLOGY
• Trio Hurricane - Live at Fire in the Valley - Eremite
• Denis Charles IVtet - Captain of the Deep - Eremite
• Charlie Hunter & Pound for Pound - Return of the Candyman - Blue Note
• Ganelin/Vysniauskas/Gotesman - Trio Alliance - Leo Lab
• Collective 4tet - Live at Crescent - Leo Lab
• Karayorgis/Maneri - Lift & Poise - Leo Lab
• Soegaard Ensemble - Chronox - Leo Lab
• Natsuki Tamura - A Song for Jyaki - Leo Lab
• Georg Grawe Quartet - Melodie Und Rhythmus - Okkadisk
• McPhee/Vandermark/Kessler - A Meeting in Chicago - Okkadisk
• AALY Trio + Vandermark - Hidden in the Stomach - Silkheart
• John Bickerton Trio - Drinking from the Golden Cup - Loud Neighbors
• Mark Shim - Mind Over Matter - Blue Note
• Mark Vinci - As I Think About You - Iris
• Michael Wolff - Portraiture, The Blues Period - Fuel 2000
• Jon Jarvis Trio - Never Never Land - TVT
• Wadada Leo Smith/Harumi Makino Smith - Condor, Autumn Wind - Wobbly Rail
• Robert Mazurek/Chicago Underground Orchestra - Playground - Delmark
• Vandermark 5 - Target or Flag - Atavistic
• Braxton/Newton - Composition 192 - Leo
• John Wolf Brennan HeXtet - ...through the Ear of a Raindrop - Leo
• Tibor Szemzo - Relative Things - Leo
• Parker/Akchote/Casserley/Ryan - Live - Leo
• Ivo Perelman Trio - Seeds, Vision and Counterpoint - Leo
• Sorgen-Rust-Stevens Trio - Novella - Leo
• Eric Reed - Pure Imagination - Impulse
• Jazz Underground - Live at Smalls - Impulse
• Kadash am Berg - Kadash am Berg - Unit
• Hal Galper Trio - Fugue State - Blue Chip
• Toots Thielemans - Chez Toots - Private Music
• Michael Weiss Quartet - Power Station - DIW
• Matthias Lupri Quartet - Window Up Window Down - Chartmaker
• NRG Ensemble - Bejazzo Gets a Facelift - Atavistic
• Luscher/Rieben/Wildbolz - Cieletterra - Altri Suoni
• Kenny Werner Trio - A Delicate Balance - BMG
• John Scofield - A Go Go - Verve
• Kali Fasteau - Comraderie - Flying Note
• Jane Bunnett & Spirits of Havana - Chamalongo - Blue Note
• Bill Liston-Andy Martin Express - Walkin' the Walk - Chartmaker
• Grazyna Auguscik - Pastels - GMA
• Gnu - Gnuman - Soup-Disk

[Not new, but new to our collection]

• Loren Mazzacane & Suzanne Langille - Come Night - O.O.
• Roscoe Mitchell@ - L-R-G, The Maze, S II Examples - Nessa

MONTHLY TOP 50

* denotes reissue, @ denotes not real new.

1. Sun Ra and his Arkestra* - Cosmo Sun Connection - Recommended
2. Vandermark 5 - Target or Flag - Atavistic
3. Bluiett Baritone Saxophone Group - Live at the Knitting Factory - Knitting Factory
4. Oliver Lake String Project - Movement, Turns & Switches - Passin' Thru
5. Robert Mazurek/Chicago Underground Orchestra - Playground - Delmark
6. Denis Charles IVtet - Captain of the Deep - Eremite
7. AALY Trio + Vandermark - Hidden in the Stomach - Silkheart
8. Abrams/Dewar/Barry - Calamities Break - Savage Sound Syndicate
9. Lee Morgan - Standards - Blue Note
10. Matthew Shipp Trio - The Multiplication Table - hatOLOGY

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11. Jean Derome - 3 Musiques pour UBU - Ambiances Magnetiques
12. Wadada Leo Smith/Harumi Makino Smith - Condor, Autumn Wind - Wobbly Rail
13. Marc Ducret - Un Certain Malaise - Screwgun
14. Jackie McLean Septet - Fire & Love - Blue Note
15. Georg Grawe Quartet - Melodie Und Rhythmus - Okkadisk
16. Klaxon Gueule - Bavards - Ambiances Magnetiques
17. Weather Report* - Heavy Weather - Columbia
18. Miles Davis Quintet@ - Miles Smiles - Columbia
19. Sten Sandell - Behind the Chords - LJ
20. Dewey Redman - In London - Palmetto

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21. McPhee/Vandermark/Kessler - A Meeting in Chicago - Okkadisk
22. Trio Hurricane - Live at Fire in the Valley - Eremite
23. Han Bennink & Dave Douglas@ - Serpentine - Songlines
24. Jean Derome - La Bete: The Beast Within - Ambiances Magnetiques
25. Vijay Iyer - Architextures - Asian Improv
26. Malachi Thompson - 47th Street - Delmark
27. Collective 4tet - Live at Crescent - Leo Lab
28. Ganelin/Vysniauskas/Gotesman - Trio Alliance - Leo Lab
29. Mazzacane/Langille - Come Night - O.O.
30. Felix Huber - Al Fresco: Bilder keiner Ausstellung - UNIT

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31. Haden/Allen/Motian - The Montreal Tapes - Verve
32. Gerry Mulligan* - Meets Ben Webster - Verve
33. Human Feel@ - Speak to it - Songlines
34. Le Quan Ninh - Ustensiles - For 4 Ears
35. Jazz at the Philharmonic - Frankfurt, 1952 - Pablo
36. Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges* - Play the Blues Back to Back - Verve
37. Jodie Christian - Soul Fountain - Delmark
38. Hamiet Bluiett - Ballads & Blues - Soul Note
39. Karayorgis/Maneri - Lift & Poise - Leo Lab
40. Charlie Haden & Kenny Barron - Night and The City - Verve

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41. John Zorn Masada - Tet - DIW
42. Fred Hersch - Thelonious - Nonesuch
43. Paul Plimley@ - Everything in Stages - Songlines
44. Babkas@ - Fratelli - Songlines
45. Mengelberg/Gustafsson/Prins - Live in Holland '97 - X-OR
46. Brotzmann/Bergman/Cyrille - Exhilaration - Soul Note
47. Tom Varner - Martian Heartache - Soul Note
48. Music Revelation Ensemble - Cross Fire - DIW
49. Kowald/Ludi/Morris/Namchylak@ - When the Sun is Out You Don't See Stars - FMP
50. Various - A Chicago Jazz Tour - Big Chicago