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July, 2004
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    Reports compiled by:
      Mike Corsa, WNUR Jazz Music Director
      jazz-md@wnur.org
      1920 Campus Drive
      Evanston, IL 60208 USA
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MONTHLY TOP 50

   These are the top 50 releases ranked by actual total airplay by our 14 jazz DJ's for the month of July 2004.
   
   * denotes reissue

1) Ted Sirota's Rebel Souls - Breeding Resistance  - Delmark
2) Dave Burrell Full - Blown Trio - Expansion - High Two
3) Die Enttauschung - Crouton Number 25 - Crouton
4) John Scofield Trio - En Route - Verve
5) World Saxophone Quartet - Experience - Justin Time
6) Liebig/Vatcher/Golia - On the Cusp of Fire and Water - Red Toucan
7) Louis Sclavis - Napoli's Walls - ECM
8) Atomic/School Days - Nuclear Assembly Hall - Okkadisk
9) Ellery Eskelin - Forms - hatOLOGY
10) Rob Brown Quartet - The Big Picture - Terrones
11) The Exciting Trio - In Chicago There Is Willy - 482 Music
12) The Vandermark Five - Elements of Style - Atavistic
13) Jack McDuff - The Prestige Years - Prestige
14) Noel Akchote - Adult Guitar - Blue Chopsticks
15) Sonic Liberation Front - Ashe A Go - Go - High Two
16) Boykin/Seigfried/Reed - s/t - Imaginary Records
17) Fred Anderson/Hamid Drake - Back Together Again - Thrill Jockey
18) Atipico Trio - Allegro con Brio - Leo
19) Tomato Box - Any Road - Rattle Tick Buzz
20) Daniel Studer - Ianus - Unit
21) Quincy Jones and Bill Cosby - The Original Jam Session 1969 - Concord
22) Wayne Shorter - Alegria - Verve
23) Kyle Bruckmann - Gasps & Fissures - 482 Music
24) Various Artists - Amalgam(e): 10 ans de Red Toucan - Red Toucan
25) Bud Powell - Bebop - Pablo
26) Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble - Memory / Vision - ECM
27) Bianco/Liebman/Marino - Line Ish - Emanem
28) Frank Gratkowski Quartet - Facio - Leo
29) Peter Brotzmann Tentet - Signs - Okkadisk
30) Ken Vandermark - Furniture Music - Okkadisk
31) Kees Hazevoet* - Pleasure - Unheard Music Series
32) Mario Schiano* - On the Waiting - list - Unheard Music Series
33) Craig Taborn - Junk Magic - Thirsty Ear
34) Paul Bley - Nothing to Declare - Justin Time
35) Cecil Taylor & Italian Instabile Orch. - Owner of the River Bank - Enja
36) Dave Rempis Quartet - Out of Season - 482 Music
37) Sticks and Stones - Shed Grace - Thrill Jockey
38) The Bad Plus - Give - Columbia
39) Mount Washington - Mount Washington - Reify
40) Big Satan (Berne/Rainey/Ducret) - Souls Saved Hear - Thirsty Ear
41) Simon Nabatov Trio - Autumn Music - Leo
42) Paul Steinbeck - Nine Ways - Engine Studios
43) Bject - Object 4 - Locust
44) N Collective - Field Recordings: News from Holland-Vol 1 - X-OR
45) Rivers/Rudolph/Eisenstadt - vista - Meta Records
46) Spring Heel Jack - The Sweetness of Water - Thirsty Ear
47) Eisenstadt/Rothbaum - 10/21/03 - Experimental Musical Research
48) The Fonda/Stevens Group - Twelve Improvisations - Leo
49) Leandre/Maneri/Marguet/Ryan - For Flowers - Leo
50) Tatsuya Nakatani - Green Report 12 - H&H

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TOP RETIRED NEW RELEASES

    These are the top 25 releases that retired from our new pool and joined the rest of our collection during the month of July 2004.  These releases got the most airplay throughout their activity as new releases over the past few months.

   * denotes reissue

1) Ted Sirota's Rebel Souls - Breeding Resistance  - Delmark
2) Dave Douglas - Strange Liberation - Bluebird
3) Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath - Bremen to Bridgewater - Cuneiform
4) Tomato Box - Any Road - Rattle Tick Buzz
5) Sticks and Stones - Shed Grace - Thrill Jockey
6) Claudia Quintet - I, Claudia - Cuneiform
7) Conference Call - Spirals: The Berlin Concert - 482 Music
8) The Bad Plus - Give - Columbia
9) Fred Anderson / Hamid Drake - Back Together Again - Thrill Jockey
10) Yoshida Tatsuya/Satoko Fujii - Erans - Tzadik
11) Across 7th Street - Made In New York - Smalls
12) Kalaparush and the Light - Morning Song - Delmark
13) Erik Friedlander - Maldoror - Brassland
14) John Zorn - The Unknown Masada - Tzadik
15) Julius Hemphill - One Atmosphere - Tzadik
16) Fly - s/t - Savoy Jazz
17) Dragons 1976 - On Cortez - Locust
18) Stan Tracey / Evan Parker - Suspensions and Anticipations - Psi
19) Myrd Melford - The Tent - Arabesque
20) Hilmar Jennson - Ditty Blei - Songlines
21) Anthony Brown's Asian American Orchestra - Monk's Mood: Music of Thelonious Monk - Water Baby
22) Brad Dutz - Obliteration Percussion Quartet - s/r
23) Kenny Wheeler* - Song for Someone - Psi
24) Brad Dutz/John Holmes - My Bongo - pfMentum
25) Mount Washington - Mount Washington - Reify