WNUR Jazz: May 2002 Top 50
Compiled by:
Greg Shapiro, Jazz Music
Director
jazz-md@wnur.org
1920 Campus Dr.
Evanston, IL 60208
These are the top 50 releases for the month of May 2002, based on actual
tabulated airplay by our 15 jazz DJ's.
* denotes reissue.
1 - Gold Sparkle Band - Fugues & Flowers - Squealer
2 - Tom Varner - Second Communion - OmniTone
3 - Tim Berne - Science Friction - Screwgun
4 - Kyle Bruckmann - and - Musica Genera
5 - Assif Tsahar and the Zoanthropic Orchestra - Embracing the Void -
Hopscotch
6 - Trio 3 - Open Ideas - Palmetto
7 - Famoudou Don Moye/Tatsu Aoki - A Symphony of Cities - Southport
8 - Oliver Lake & Julius Hemphill* - Buster Bee - Sackville
9 - Misha Mengelberg Quartet - Four in One - Songlines
10 - Dave Douglas - The Infinite - RCA
11 - Myra Melford Trio* - Alive in the House of Saints - hatOLOGY
12 - Gratkowski/Graewe/Lindberg - Arrears - Red Toucan
13 - Lossing/Kolker/Hebert - Change of Time - OmniTone
14 - Wintsch/Hemingway/Oester - Open Songs - Altrisuoni
15 - Slavic Soul Party - In Makedonija - Knitting Factory
16 - The Miyumi Project Big Band - Rooted: Origins of Now - JIC
17 - Mephista - Black Narcissus - Tzadik
18 - Guillermo E. Brown - Soul at the Hands of the Machine - Thirsty Ear
19 - Cecil Taylor - The Willisau Concert - Intakt
20 - Wendell Harrison - The 8th House: Riding w/ Pluto - Entropy Stereo
21 - By-Spiel Project - Looking Outside - Altrisuoni
22 - Jeff Song and Lowbrow - Diasporama - Stellar Sound
23 - Trio AAB - wherever I lay my home that's my hat - Caber Music
24 - Giardullo/McPhee/Bisio/Tabbal - Shadow and Light - Drimala
25 - Han Bennink & Evan Parker - The Grass is Greener - Psi Records
26 - Various - Freedom of the City 2001 (Large Groups) - Emanem
27 - Nicols/Kraabel/Hug - Transitions - Emanem
28 - Barry Altschul* - Brahma - Sackville
29 - Arnold Dreyblatt & The Orchestra of Excited Strings - The Adding
Machine - Cantaloupe
30 - Rob Mazurek - Amorphic Winged - Walking Road
31 - Robbie Hunsinger - With Joseph Jarman and Tatsu Aoki -
self-released
32 - Jeb Bishop Trio/Quartet - Afternoons - Okkadisk
33 - John Abercrombie - Cat 'n Mouse - ECM
34 - Miles Davis - The Complete In a Silent Way Sessions (3 CDs) -
Columbia/Legacy
35 - Moondoc, Parker, and Drake - New World Pygmies, Vol. 2 - Eremite
36 - John Hollenbeck - The Claudia Quintet - Composers Recordings
37 - Matthew Shipp - nu bop - Thirsty Ear
38 - Paul Rutherford - Trombolenium - Emanem
39 - Trevor Watts & Veryan Weston - 6 Dialogues - Emanem
40 - Charlotte Hug and Pat Thomas - Certain Questions - Unit Records
41 - Jean Derome - Canot-Camping - Ambiance Magnetiques
42 - Lemon Juice Quartet - Peasant Songs - Piadrum
43 - Lazro/Zingaro/Leandre/Lovens - Madly You - Potlatch
44 - Seth Misterka - Presents Dynasty - Newsonic
45 - Michael Chorney - Orchid - Ahdishk
46 - Lou Grassi's PoBand & Joseph Jarman - Joy of Being - CIMP
47 - Thomas Gaudynski - Elementals - Penumbra
48 - Gustafsson/O'Rourke/Moore - Diskaholics Anonymous Trio - Crazy
Wisdom
49 - Silva/Jordan/Parker - Emancipation Suite #1 - Boxholder
50 - Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Ensemble - Dreams - Tzadik
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