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WNUR Jazz: January 2003 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 January 2003, based on actual tabulated airplay by our 15 jazz DJ's.

* denotes reissue.

1 - Matthew Shipp - Equilibrium - Thirsty Ear
2 - Happy Apple - Youth Oriented - Sunnyside
3 - Evan Parker/Joe McPhee - Chicago Tenor Duets - Okkadisk
4 - Aoki/Hunsinger/Jarman - Trio - Melungeon
5 - FME - Live at the Glenn Miller Café - Okkadisk
6 - Kent Kessler - Bull Fiddle - Okkadisk
7 - Mazurek/Roebke/van der Schyff - Tigersmilk - Family Vineyard
8 - Wadada Leo Smith - Luminous Axis - Tzadik
9 - Exploding Customer - Live at the Glenn Miller Café - Ayler
10 - Painkiller - Live in Nagoya: Talisman - Tzadik
11 - George Schuller/Schulldogs - Hellbent - Playscape Recordings
12 - Assif Tsahar & the New York Underground Orchestra - The Labyrith - Hopscotch
13 - Nicole Mitchell Black Earth Ensemble - Afrika Rising - Dreamtime
14 - Unstable Ensemble - The Liturgy of Ghosts - Family Vineyard
15 - Jason Moran - Modernistic - Blue Note
16 - Michael Musillami/Mario Pavone - Pivot - Playscape Recordings
17 - Territory Band 2 - Atlas - Okkadisk
18 - SS Puft Quartet with Dave Rempis - Live at Earthshaking Music - Solponticello
19 - Rudresh Mahanthappa - Black Water - Red Giant
20 - Assif Tsahar - Ayn Le-Any - Hopscotch
21 - Vandermark/Strid/Sandell/Stackenas/Nordeson - Two Days in December - Wobbly Rail
22 - Agusti Fernandez & Derek Bailey - Barcelona - Hopscotch
23 - Glenn Kotche - Introducing - Locust
24 - Klaus Janek - Caspar - Solponticello
25 - Damon Short - Go Figure - 9 Winds
26 - Michael Bettine - Stars Show the Way - self-released
27 - Fieldwork - Your Life Flashes - Pi Recordings
28 - Takase/Kolkowski/Buck - Nine Fragments: Dempa - Leo
29 - Paul Rutherford - Chicago 2002 - Emanem
30 - Brad Shepik Trio - Drip - Knitting Factory
31 - Hannes Enzlberger - Songs to Anything That Moves - Between the Lines
32 - Sten Sandell - Solid Musik - Nuscope
33 - Hilmar Jensson - Tyft - Songlines
34 - Gratkowski/Van Hove/Oxley - Grathovox - Nuscope
35 - Maneri Ensemble - Going to Church - Aum Fidelity
36 - Simone Guiducci Gramelot Ensemble - Chorale - Dunya
37 - Lou Grassi's PoBand & John Tchicai - ComPOsed - CIMP
38 - Nikolas Francis Unit - Blessings Demo - self-released
39 - Jarrett/Peacock/DeJohnette - Always Let Me Go - ECM
40 - Mat Maneri Trio - For Consequence - Leo
41 - Charlie Kohlhase Quintet - Plays the Music of Roswell Rudd - Eventuality
42 - Douglas Ewart and Inventions - Newbeings - Arawak
43 - Mat Maneri feat. Joe McPhee - Sustain - Thirsty Ear
44 - The Astral-Terra Trapeze Unit - Caught in the Act: 2001/2002 - House of Rhythm
45 - Evan Parker & George Lewis* - From Saxophone and Trombone - Psi Records
46 - Dewey Redman* - Tarik - Fuel 2000
47 - Derek Bailey - Pieces for Guitar - Tzadik
48 - Chris Burn Ensemble - Horizontals White - Emanem
49 - Giardullo/Sullivan/Thompson - Language of Swans - Drimala
50 - Wayne Horvitz - Film Music 1998-2001 - Tzadik
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