Nubian Roots Playlist - April 1996
"Jazz" Records Added for April 1996
Massey, Zane "Safe To Imagine" (Delmark)
Owens, Craig "The Seven Martyrs of Tehran" (Buffalo)
Ochs, Larry "The Secret Magritte" (Black Saint)
Plunge "Falling With Grace" (Accurate)
Prima Materia "Meditations" (Knitting Factory)
Shipp, Matthew "Symbol Systems" (No More)
Parker, Evan "Obliquities" (Maya)
Rosnes, Renee "Ancestors" (Blue Note)
COLL "Jazz In the Wilde" (Uh-Oh)
Shew, Bobby "Heavyweights" (Mama Foundation)
Golia/Leandre/Filiano "Haunting the Spirits Inside Them" (Music & Arts)
Brown, Ari "Ultimate Frontier" (Delmark)
Konitz, Lee/Don Friedman/Attila Zoller "Thingin" (Hat Hut)
Namchylak/Rothenberg "Amulet" (Leo)
Top 10 Recordings for April
These charts are based on actual airplay, and are actually
what we report on. (For those of you outside the college radio
biz, this is unusual.)
1. Shipp, Matthew Symbol Systems (No More)
2. Ulmer, James Blood Are You Glad to Be in America? (DIW)
3. Vandermark, Ken Standards (Quinnah)
4. Parker, Evan Obliquities (Maya)
5. Abrams, Muhal Richard Think All, Focus One (Black Saint)
6. Billy Tipton Memorial Saxaphone Quartet Box (New World)
7. Horn, Shirley The Main Ingredient (Verve)
8. Schweizer, Irene/Han Bennink Live (Intakt)
9. Nil Nil (Unit)
10. Masada Hei (DIW)
April 6, 1996
Graham Haynes
"Transition" Transition (1996 Verve)
Tony Williams "Extras" Spring (1965, 1987 Blue Note)
Reggie Workman "Suite pour le Courage" Alterted Spaces ()
Reggie Workman "Wha's Nine" Altered Spaces ()
James Blood Ulmer "Light Eyed" Are You Glad to Be in America (1995 DIW Columbia)
John Coltrane "Venus" Interstellar Space (1967 Impulse!)
Horace Tapscott "aiee! the Phantom" aiee! the Phantom (1996 Arabesque)
Eric Dolphy "Something Sweet, Something Tender" Out to Lunch (1964, 1987 Blue Note)
Muhal Richard Abrams "The Harmonic Veil" Think All, Focus One (1995 Black Saint)
Frank Kuumba Lacy "Robot" Tonal Weights & Blue Fire (1991 Tutu)
Archie Shepp "Syeeda's Song Flute" Four for Trane (1964 Impulse!)
Duke Ellington "Tourist Point of View" The Far East Suite (1966, 1988 BMG)
Duke Ellington "Bluebird of Delhi" The Far East Suite (1966, 1988 BMG)
Shirley Horn "The Look of Love" The Main Ingredient (1996 Verve)
Cassandra Wilson "Strange Fruit" New Moon Daughter (1996 Blue Note)
David S. Ware "Rhythm Dao" Dao (1995 Homestead Records)
David Murray & Pierre Dorge's new Jungle Orchestra "Do Green Ants Dream?" The Jazzpar Prize (1992 Enja Records)
Randy Weston "Lagos" Saga (1995 Verve)
Paul Bley "Free" Live at the Hilcrest Club 1958 (1976 Inner City Records)
8 Bold Souls "Glass Breakers" Sideshow (Arabesque)
April 14, 1996
Bang/Harris/Threadgill
"Riding With Ra" Hip Hop Be Bop (ITM)
Steve Coleman "Multiplicity of Approaches (The African Way of Knowing)" Def Trance Beat (Novus)
Max Roach "Tears" To The Max (Black Saint)
Muhal Richard Abrams "11 Over Four" One Line, Two Views (New World Records)
Theodross Avery "Theme For Malcom" My Generation (Impulse!)
Don Byron "(The Press Made) Rodney King (Responsible for the L.A. Riots)" Music For Six Musicians (Elektra Nonesuch)
Horace Tapscott "To the Great House" Aiee! The Phantom (Arabeque)
Prima Materia "Compassion" Stellar Regions (Impulse!)
Duke Ellington "Bli-Blip" The Blanton-Webster Band (RCA)
Duke Ellington "Chelsea Bridge" The Blanton-Webster Band (RCA)
Cassandra Wilson "Chelsea Bridge" She Who Weeps (JMT)
Henry Butler "Spring Jam" For All Seasons (Atlantic)
Muhal Richard Abrams "Crossbeams" Think All, Focus One (Black Saint)
Plunge "Trick of the Light" Falling With Grace (Accurate)
Dave Holland "Mr. PC" Ones All (Intuition Music)
Pandit Kumalesh Maitra "Raag Deen Todi" Melody on Drums (Smith)
Cyrille/Lee/Lyons "Nuba 2" Nuba (Black Saint)
Miriam Makeba "Umhome" Africa (Novus)
Ethnic Heritage Ensemble "Ode to the True Crusader" Dance With the Ancestors (Cameleon)
April 21, 1996
Courtney Pine
"Creation Stepper" Modern Day Jazz Stories (Verve)
Pharoah Sanders "Clear Out Of This World" Oh Lord, Let Me Do No Wrong (Teresa Gramophone Company)
Horace Tapscott "Aiee! the Phantom" Aiee! the Phantom (Arabesque)
Matthew Shipp "Symbol Systems" Symbol Systems (No More Records)
Eric Dolphy "Naima" Naima (West Wind)
Parker/Guy "Punta Reversa" Obliquities (Maya)
Thelonious Monk "Brake's Sake" It's Monk Time (Columbia)
Muhal Richard Abrams "The Prism 3" One Line, Two Views (New World)
Golia/Leandre/Filiano "Dream Commands" Haunting the Spirits Inside Them (Music & Arts)
Lamberts, Hendricks & Ross "Bijou" The Best of Lambert, Hendricks & Ross (Columbia)
Renee Rosnes "Upa Neguinh" Ancestors (Blue Note)
Bley, Paul "Free" Live @ the Hillcrest Club (Inner City)
Milford Graves "Nothing 13" Milford Graves Percussion Ensemble (ESP)
Cassandra Wilson "Skylark" New Moon Daughter (Blue Note)
Anthony Williams "From Before" Spring (Blue Note)
Muhal Richard Abrams "Think All, Focus One" Think All, Focus One (Black Saint)
Ella Fitzgerald "Duke's Place" Ella @ Duke's Place (Verve)
Zane Massey "Blues for Awliya" Safe to Imagine (Delmark)
Robin Eubanks "Matatape" Mental Images (Blue Note)
Geri Allen "And They Partied" Maroons (Blue Note)
April 28, 1996
Abiodun Olewonle
"When the Revolution Comes" 25 Years (Rykodisc)
Steve Williamson "They Don't Want to Hearit" Journey to Truth (Verve)
Courtney Pine "Absolution" Modern Day Jazz Stories (Verve)
Duke Ellignton "Arabesque Cookie" Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack Malcom X (Warner Bros.)
Duke Ellington "Agra" The Far East Suite (RCA)
Duke Ellington "Amad" The Far East Suite (RCA)
Duke Ellington "My People" My People (Sony Music)
Duke Ellington "Retrospection" Piano Reflections (Capitol)
Archie Shepp "There is a Balm in Gilead" Blase' (Affinity)
Ari Brown "Lester Bowie's Gumbo Stew" Ultimate Frontier (Delmark)
Muhal Richard Abrams "Tribute to Julius Hemphill & Don Pullen" One Line, Two Views (New World Records)
William Parker "Dedication" Solo Bass (Zero In)
Paul Bowles "Up Above World" Baptism of Solitude (Meta)
Dave Holland "Cashel" Ones All (Intuition Music)
Jazz Artist Guild "Cliff Walk" Newport Rebels (da Music)
Golia/Leandre/Filiano "The Pot is Broken and the Flower is Gone" haunting the spirits inside them... (Music & Arts)
Mixashawn & Word Out "A Connecticut Manatee on CNN/Number 6" Jazz in the Wilde (University of Hartford )
Horace Tapscott "Inspiration of Silence" The Phantom (Arabesque)
Matthew Shipp "Bop Abyss" Symbol Systems (No More Records)
David Murray & Low Class Conspiracy "Flowers For Albert" Flowers For Albert (West Wind)
Shirley Horn "Keepin' Our of Mischief" The Main Ingredient (Verve)
Charles Mingus "Dizzy Moods" New Tijuana Moods (RCA)
Charles Mingus "Moods Indigo" Ellingtonia (RCA)
Coltrane/Ellington "The Feeling of Jazz" Duke Ellington and John Coltrane (Impulse!)
Graham Haynes "Free Stylin'" Transition (Verve)