WNUR Jazz Report, June 1998

89.3 WNUR FM, "Chicago's Sound Experiment"
Jazz Show: Weekdays 5:00am-12:30pm (US-Central)
http://www.wnur.org/jazzshow/

Adds & charts

Jazz Music Director
jazz-md@wnur.org
(847) 491-7102
1920 Campus Dr.
Evanston, IL 60208 USA

News & events

Jazz Producer
jazz-producer@wnur.org

NEWS

• Music director Jason Karaian has returned. This is the first of several catch-up reports, this one containing our charts for June -- subsequent reports will bring us back up to the present.
• Two special broadcasts on the jazz show this week:
  • Wednesday 11/4/98 11:00am: live interview with Damon Short (drums) and Paul Scea (reeds) also featuring music from "Removable Media", their new quartet CD on Southport. The quartet performs Friday evening at the HotHouse at 7:00.
  • Friday 11/6/98 10:00am: feature on Fred Lonberg-Holm's conducted improvisation project the Lightbox Orchestra, including live interview with Lonberg-Holm and a selection of live tapes from past performances. The Orchestra performs Saturday at Lunar Cabaret and every Monday in November at the Note.
  - - Seth Tisue, jazz producer <jazz-producer@wnur.org>

MONTHLY TOP 50

* denotes reissue, @ denotes not real new.

1. Sun Ra* - Space is the Place - Impulse!
2. Joe Mcphee - As Serious as Your Life - hatOLOGY
3. Various - VISION ONE: Vision Festival 1997 Compiled (2 CD's) - AUM Fidelity
4. Joe Morris/Ken Vandermark/Hans Poppel - Like Rays - Knitting Factory
5. Parker/Guy/Lytton - At the Vortex (1996) - Emanem
6. Holz fur Europa - Comite Imaginere - FMP
7. Fred Jackson* - Hootin' 'n Tootin' - Blue Note
8. Gerry Hemingway Quartet - Johnny's Corner Song - Auricle Records
9. Revolutionary Ensemble@ - Revolutionary Ensemble - ESP
10. Milford Graves - Grand Unification - Tzadik
11. Vandermark 5 - Target or Flag - Atavistic
12. Charles Mingus* - Mingus Three - Roulette
13. Leimgruber/Leandre/Hauser - No Try No Fail - hatOLOGY
14. John Coltrane* - Live at the Village Vanguard - Impulse!
15. Pharoah Sanders* - Black Unity - Impulse!
16. Vinny Golia Large Ensemble - Portland 1996 - 9 Winds
17. Joelle Leandre - No Comment - Red Toucan
18. Derek Bailey* - Incus Taps - organ of Corti
19. Matthew Shipp Trio - The Multiplication Table - hatOLOGY
20. Kali Fasteau - Comraderie - Flying Note
21. Crispell/Fernandez - Dark Night, and Luminous - New Contemporary Music
22. Braaxtaal - Speechlos - Kontrans
23. Marc Ducret - Un Certain Malaise - Screwgun
24. Derek Bailey & Min Xiao-Fen - Viper - Avant
25. Bergman/Braxton/Brotzmann@ - Eight By Three - Mixtery
26. Derek Bailey & Tony Oxley - Soho Suites (2 CD's) - Incus
27. Other Dimensions in Music - NOW! - AUM Fidelity
28. Sonny Rollins - Global Warming - Milestone
29. Mujician - Colours Fulfilled - Cuneiform
30. various - Autumn Uprising (2 CD's) - Tautology
31. Fred Ho & the Afro Asian Ensemble - Turn Pain into Power! - O.O.
32. Joe Morris@ - Antennae - AUM Fidelity
33. Motoharu Yoshizawa@ - Cracked Mirrors - PSF
34. Evan Parker & Eddie Prevost - Most Materiall (2 CD's) - Matchless
35. Spontaneous Music Orchestra - For You to Share (1970) - Emanem
36. Eddie Prevost@ - Loci of Change - Matchless
37. Robert Mazurek/Chicago Underground Orchestra - Playground - Delmark
38. NRG Ensemble - Bejazzo Gets a Facelift - Atavistic
39. Whit Dickey Trio - Transonic - AUM Fidelity
40. Lol Coxhill & Veryan Weston - Boundless - Emanem
41. Kaoru Abe@ - Solo. 1972.1.21 - P.S.F.
42. Patty Waters@ - Sings - ESP
43. Orange Then Blue - Orange Then Blue - GM Recordings
44. Tina Brooks* - Back to the Tracks - Blue Note
45. Leo Smith/Vinny Golia/Bertram Turetzky - Prataksis - 9 Winds
46. Marilyn Crispell/Gary Peacock/Paul Motian@ - Nothing Ever Was, Anyway (Music of Annette Peacock) (2 CD's) - ECM
47. Paul Desmond/Gerry Mulligan@ - Two of a Mind - RCA Victor
48. Ella Fitzgerald@* - Sings the Johnny Mercer Songbook - Verve
49. Elvin Jones@ - Puttin' It Together - Blue Note
50. Mats Gustafsson & Barry Guy - Frogging - Maya