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August,
2004
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Reports compiled by:
Mike Corsa
WNUR Jazz Music Director
jazz-md@wnur.org
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MONTHLY TOP 50
These are the top 50 releases ranked by actual total
airplay by our 15 jazz
DJ's for the month of August 2004.
* denotes reissue
1) Billy Bang Quartet/Sextet* - Sweet Space / Untitled Gift - 8th
Harmonic Breakdown
2) Ellery Eskelin - Forms – hatOLOGY
3) Von Freeman - The Great Divide - Premonition
4) Anthony Braxton - 23 Standards (Quartet) - Leo
5) Hugh Ragin - Revelation - Justin Time
6) Nels Cline / Vinny Golia - The Entire Time - 9 Winds
7) Ilhan Mimaroglu* - Agitation - Locust
8) Simon Nabatov Trio - Autumn Music - Leo
9) Parker/Schlippenbach/Lytton - America 2003 – Psi
10) Tanya Kalmanovitch - Hut Five - Perspicacity
11) Joelle Leandre/Gianni Lenoci - Sur Une Balancoire - Actuellecd
12) Vinny Golia - A Gift for the Unusual - 9 Winds
13) Steve Swallow/Ohad Talmor Sextet - L'Histoire du Clochard (The
Bum's Tale) - Palmetto
14) Charles Earland - Funk Fantastique - Prestige
15) Peter Brotzmann Tentet - Images - Okkadisk
16) Atomic / School Days - Nuclear Assembly Hall - Okkadisk
17) The Exciting Trio - In Chicago There Is Willy - 482 Music
18) Paul Rutherford Trio - Gheim: Live at Bracknell 1983 - Emanem
19) Noel Akchote - Adult Guitar - Blue Chopsticks
20) John Scofield Trio - En Route - Verve
21) Fuchs/Lindsay/Smith/Baghdassarians/Baltschun - The Happymakers -
Balance Point Acoustics
22) The Moving Form - Year of the Endless Moment - Engine Studios
23) George Burt/Raymond MacDonald Octet - Popcorn – FMR
24) Greg Hopkins Quintet - Quintology - Summit
25) Kenneth Patchen - Reads With Jazz in Canada - Locust
26) Ben Allison & Medicine Wheel - Buzz - Palmetto
27) Lafayette Gilchrist - The Music According to… - Hyena
28) Lukas Ligeti - Mystery System - Tzadik
29) Ernst Thoma - Time Layer - Unit
30) Bley/Sheppard/Swallow/Drummond - The Lost Chords - ECM
31) Marilyn Crispell trio - Storyteller - ECM
32) Ken Vandermark - Furniture Music - Okkadisk
33) Fabio Martini - Intrio - Practicality - Leo
34) Tomasz Stanko Quartet - Suspended Night - ECM
35) The Dave Fox Group - Gatewalk - Assembled Sound
36) Spring Heel Jack - The Sweetness of Water - Thirsty Ear
37) Liebig / Vatcher / Golia - On the Cusp of Fire and Water - Red
Toucan
38) Boykin / Seigfried / Reed - s/t - Imaginary Records
39) Rob Brown Quartet - The Big Picture - Terrones
40) Dave Burrell Full-Blown Trio - Expansion - High Two
41) Kent Carter String Trio* - The Willisau Suites - Emanem
42) Maneri/Phillips/Maneri - Angels of Repose - ECM
43) Tim Olive and Fritz Welch - Sun Reverse the Footpedal - Evolving Ear
44) Bject - Object 4 - Locust
45) Dave Rempis Quartet - Out of Season - 482 Music
46) Blonk / Zach / Grydeland - Improvisors - Kontrans
47) The Vandermark Five, Elements of Style - Excercises in
Surprise - Atavistic
48) Louis Sclavis - Napoli's Walls - ECM
49) Numinous Opossum - Find the Burrow and Bury Your Head - Umbrella
50) Tomato Box - Talisman - Rattle Tick Buzz
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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 August 2004. These
releases got
the most airplay throughout their activity as new releases over the
past few
months)
* denotes reissue
1) Dave Rempis Quartet - Out of Season - 482 Music
2) Marilyn Crispell trio - Storyteller - ECM
3) Jack McDuff - The Prestige Years - Prestige
4) Boykin / Seigfried / Reed - s/t - Imaginary Records
5) El-P - High Water - Thirsty Ear
6) Who Trio - The Current Underneath - Leo
7) Atomic / School Days - Nuclear Assembly Hall - Okkadisk
8) Paul Bley - Nothing to Declare - Justin Time
9) Craig Taborn - Junk Magic - Thirsty Ear
10) People Band* - 1968 - Emanem
11) The Vandermark Five, Elements of Style - Excercises in
Surprise - Atavistic
12) East New York Ensemble de Music* - At The Helm - Ikef
13) Rabih Abou-Khalil – Morton’s Foot - Enja
14) Louis Sclavis - Napoli's Walls - ECM
15) Ken Vandermark - Furniture Music - Okkadisk
16) Tomasz Stanko Quartet - Suspended Night - ECM
17) Peter Brotzmann Tentet - Images - Okkadisk
18) Mario Schiano* - On the Waiting-list - Unheard Music Series
19) Enrico Rava - Easy Living - ECM
20) Frank Gratkowski Quartet - Facio - Leo
21) Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble - Memory / Vision - ECM
22) Cecil Taylor & Italian Instabile Orchestra the Owner of the
River Bank - The Owner of the River Bank - Enja
23) Blonk / Zach / Grydeland - Improvisors - Kontrans
24) Laibson / Egan / Gottlieb - Trio - Wavetone
25) Peter Brotzmann Tentet - Signs - Okkadisk