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WNUR Jazz: December 2002 Top 50


Compiled by:
Greg Shapiro, Jazz Music Director
jazz-md@wnur.org
1920 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208
These are the top 50 releases for the month of December 2002, based on actual tabulated airplay by our 15 jazz DJ's.

* denotes reissue.

1 - Jason Moran - Modernistic - Blue Note
2 - Nicole Mitchell Black Earth Ensemble - Afrika Rising - Dreamtime
3 - Ivo Perelman - The Ventriloquist - Leo
4 - Conference Call - Final Answer - Soul Note
5 - Damon Short - Go Figure - 9 Winds
6 - George Lewis* - Solo Trombone Record - Sackville
7 - Fieldwork - Your Life Flashes - Pi Recordings
8 - Mat Maneri feat. Joe McPhee - Sustain - Thirsty Ear
9 - Jarrett/Peacock/DeJohnette - Always Let Me Go - ECM
10 - Derek Bailey - Pieces for Guitar - Tzadik
11 - Roscoe Mitchell* - Quartet - Sackville
12 - Paul Rutherford - Chicago 2002 - Emanem
13 - Territory Band 2 - Atlas - Okkadisk
14 - Hilmar Jensson - Tyft - Songlines
15 - xmarsx - xmarsx - Atavistic
16 - Andrew Hill - A Beautiful Day - Palmetto
17 - Lou Grassi's PoBand & John Tchicai - ComPOsed - CIMP
18 - Spring Heel Jack - Amassed - Thirsty Ear
19 - The Ganelin Trio* - Ttaango… In Nickelsdorf - Leo
20 - Jewels and Binoculars - The Music of Bob Dylan - Ramboy
21 - Rudresh Mahanthappa - Black Water - Red Giant
22 - Maneri Ensemble - Going to Church - Aum Fidelity
23 - Evan Parker & George Lewis* - From Saxophone and Trombone - Psi Records
24 - Hannes Enzlberger - Songs to Anything That Moves - Between the Lines
25 - Charlie Kohlhase Quintet - Plays the Music of Roswell Rudd - Eventuality
26 - Dewey Redman* - Tarik - Fuel 2000
27 - Lonberg-Holm/Roebke/Kotche - A Valentine for Fred Katz - Atavistic
28 - Tony Oxley's B.I.M.P. Quartet - Floating Phantoms - a/l/l
29 - Giardullo/Sullivan/Thompson - Language of Swans - Drimala
30 - The Vandermark 5 - Free Jazz Classics Vols. 1 & 2 - Atavistic
31 - Vandermark/Strid/Sandell/Stackenas/Nordeson - Two Days in December - Wobbly Rail
32 - Anthony Braxton Quartet* - (Coventry) 1985 - Leo
33 - Either/Orchestra - Afro-Cubism - Accurate
34 - Various - Latin Jazz: La Combinacion Perfecta – Smithsonian Folkways
35 - Lauren Newton/Patrick Scheyder - The Lightness of Hearing - Leo
36 - John Coltrane* - A Love Supreme (Deluxe Edition) - Impulse
37 - Lunge - Strong Language - Emanem
38 - Chris Burn Ensemble - Horizontals White - Emanem
39 - Jim Knodle & Anansi - Wending - 9 Winds
40 - Wayne Horvitz - Film Music 1998-2001 - Tzadik
41 - Metamorphosis - Dip - Leo
42 - Bruckmann/Rosenberg/Zerang - Six Synaptics - Barely Auditable
43 - Ramon Lopez - Duets 2 Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Leo
44 - Nicolas Masson - Awake - Altrisuoni
45 - Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet - The Year of the Elephant – Pi Recordings
46 - Savoir Faire - Quartet - self-released
47 - Albert Ayler* - Nuits de la Fondation Maeght 1970 - Water
48 - Jeb Bishop and Sebi Tramontana - Chicago Defenders - Wobbly Rail
49 - Cannonball Adderley* - Radio Nights - Hyena
50 - Various - The All Angels Concerts - Emanem
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