Nubian Roots Playlist - February 1996

Records Received and Added for February 1996

Abrams, Muhal Richard "Think All, Focus One" (Black Saint)
Bailey/Zorn/Parker "Harras" (Avant)
Bergman, Borah "Reflections on Ornette Coleman and The Stone House" (Soul Note)
Dresser, Mark "Force Green" (Soul Note)
Harper, Billy "Somalia" (Evidence)
Haynes, Graham "Transition" (Verve)
Horiuchi, Glenn "Calling Is It and Now" (Soul Note)
Lovano, Joe "Worlds" (Evidence)
Pine, Courtney "Modern Day Jazz Stories" (Antilles)
Vandermark, Ken "Standards" (Quinnah Records)
Weston, Randy "Saga" (Gitanes)
Wong, Francis "Ming" (Asian Improv)

Top 10 Recordings for February


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. Babatunde: Level of Intent (Diaspora)
  2. Coltrane, John (2XCD): Complete Africa/Brass Sessions (Impulse!)
  3. Coleman, Ornette: Tone Dialing (Harmolodic)
  4. Bailey/Zorn/Parker: Harras (Avant)
  5. Pine, Courtney: Modern Day Jazz Stories (Antilles)
  6. Weston, Randy: Saga (Gitanes)
  7. Trio de Clarinettes: Trio de Clarinettes (Free Music Production)
  8. Haynes, Graham: Transition (Verve)
  9. Battaglia/Porta/Pifarely: Triplicity (DDQ)
 10. Harper, Billy: Somalia (Evidence)

February 2, 1996

Brandon Ross' the Overflow "The Ugly Water" Live at the Knitting Factory Vol. 3 (Knitting Factory Records)
Ornette Coleman "Love Call" Love Call (Blue Note)
Randy Weston "La Elaha-Ella Allah/Morad Allah" The Spirit of Our Ancestors (Verve)
Randy Weston "African Village Bedford-Stuyvesant 1" The Spirit of Our Ancestors (Verve)
Grachan Moncur III "Air Raid" Evolution (Blue Note)
Bheki Mseleku "Ballad for the Saints" Star Seeding (Verve)
Joe Henderson "Homestretch" Page One (Blue Note)
Sun Ra "Saturn" Sound of Joy (Delmark)
Sun Ra "Reflections in Blue" Sound of Joy (Delmark)
David S. Ware "Bliss theme" Great Bliss Vol I (Silkheart)
Francis Wong "1:08" Chicago Time Code (Asian Improv)
Trio De Clarinette "Trio 2" Triplicity (DDQ)
William Parker "The Square Sun" In Order to Survive (Black Saint)
Herbie Nichols "Query" The Third World (Blue Note)
Bobby Hutcherson "Les Noirs Marchent" Dialogue (Blue Note)
Grachan Moncur III "The Intellect" The New Wave in Jazz (Impulse!)
Alvin Batiste "Imp and Perry" Bayou Magic (India Navigation)
Julius Hemphill "Plateau" Raw Materials and Residuals (Black Saint)
Babatande "Father of Dreams" Level of Intent (Diaspora)
Rabih Abou-Khalil "Ornette Never Sleeps" Al-Jadida (Enja)

February 10, 1996

Henry Threadgill "Bermuda Blues " You Know the Number (1987 Novus )
Charles Mingus "Charles Mingus Interviewed by Nesuhi Ertegun " Mingus Oh Yeah (1962 Atlantic)
Positive Knowledge "Another Day's Journey " Another Day's Journey (1994 Music & Arts)
Positive Knowledge "Theme from Inward Connections B" Another Day's Journey (1994 Music & Arts)
Positive Knowledge "Changes" Another Day's Journey (1994 Music & Arts)
Positive Knowledge "Theme From Inward Connections A" Another Day's Journey (1994 Music & Arts)
Positive Knowledge "Inward Connections" Another Day's Journey (1994 Music & Arts)
Ornette Coleman "Miguel's Fortune" Tone Dialing (1995 Harmolodic)
David Murray "Spooning" Ming's Samba (1989 Portrait)
Muhal Richard Abrams "Sound Image of the Present" Family Talk (Black Saint)
Randy Weston "The 3 Pyramids and the Sphynx" Saga (1995 Verve)
Battaglia/Dalla Porta/Pifareley "Fagace" Triplicity (1995 DDQ)
Battaglia/Dalla Porta/Pifareley "Trio 4" Triplicity (1995 DDQ)
Battaglia/Dalla Porta/Pifareley "Trio 5" Triplicity (1995 DDQ)
Battaglia/Dalla Porta/Pifareley "Trio 6" 1995 Triplicity (DDQ)
Andrew Hill "Mudflower" Neffertiti (1979 Inner City)
John Coltrane "Song of the Underground Railroad" The Complete Africa Brass Sessions (1995 Impulse!)
John Coltrane "Cosmos" Live in Seattle (Impulse!)
Ran Blake "I Got You Under My Skin" The Short Life of Barbara Monk (1987 Soul Note)
Fred Houn and the Afro Asian-Arkestra "Blues to the Freedom Fighters" Tomorrow is Now! (Asian Improv)
Trio de Clarinette "Domaines" Trio de Clarinette Live (1991 Free Music Production)
Matthew Shipp "Zo #1" Zo (1995 Rise Records)

February 17, 1996

Gary Thomas "By Any Means Necessary" By Any Means Necessary (1989 JMT)
Pharoah Sanders "Red, Black & Green" Thembi (1971 Impulse!)
Max Roach M'Boom "Kujichaglia" Max Roach-M'Boom (1979 Columbia)
Courtney Pine "Creation Stepper" Modern Day Jazz Stories (1995 Verve)
Randy Weston "The Gathering" Saga (1995 Verve)
Rahsaan Roland Kirk "The Old Rugged Cross" Does Your House Have Lions (1993 Atlantic)
Nickki Giovanni "Great Pax Whitey/Peace Be Still" Truth is On It's Way (Right-On Records)
Ed Blackwell Project "Rosa Takes a Stand (For Rosa Parks)" What it Is? (1993 Enja)
Dick Gregory "Black Progress" The Light Side: The Dark Side (1969 Poppy Industries)
John Coltrane "Alabama" Live at Birdland (1964 Impulse!)
Don Pullen "Endangered Species: African American Youth" Random Thoughts (1990 Blue Note)
Archie Shepp "Call me By My Rightful Name" Futher Fire Music (1978 Impulse!)
Babatunde "Fools and Babies" Level of Intent (1995 Diaspora Records)
Wallace Roney "Black People Suffering" Seth Air (1992 Muse Records)
Max Roach "Garvey's Ghost" Percussion Bitter Sweet (1962 Impulse!)
Max Roach "Man From South Africa" Percussion Bitter Sweet (1962 Impulse!)
Grachan Moncur III/The Jazz Composer's Orchestra "Medgar's Menace II/Drum Transition/ African Percussion Ensemble" Echoes of Prayer (JCOA)
John Carter "Journey" Dance of the Love Ghosts (1987 Gramavision)
William Parker "The Square Sun" In Order to Survive (1995 Black Saint)

February 24, 1996

Taj Mahal "Slave Driver" Mo'Roots (1974 Columbia)
Hamiet Bluiett "Enum" Nali Kola (1989 Soul Note)
Randy Weston "La Elaha-Ella Allah/Morad Allah" The Spirit of Our Ancestors (1992 Antilles)
Hannibal "The Middle Passage" African Portraits (1995 Teldec)
Anthony Davis "The Middle Passage" The Middle Passage (1984 Gramavision)
Courtney Pine "Transition" Transition (1996 Verve)
Courtney Pine "Absolution" Modern Day Jazz Stories (1996 Verve)
Mary Lou Williams "Offertory Meditation" Solo Recital Montreux Jazz Festival 1978 (1979 Pablo Records)
Roy Brooks "Duet in Detroit" Duet in Detroit (1993 Enja)
Albert Ayler "Our Prayer" Live Lorrach Germany and Paris France (1990 Hat Hut Records)
Battaglia/Dalla Porta/Pifarely "Trio 12" Triplicity (1995 DDQ)
Kahil El'Zabar Ritual Trio "Renaissance of the Resistance" Renaissance of the Resistance (1994 Delmark)
Kahil El'Zabar Ritual Trio "Trane in Mind" Renaissance of the Resistance (1994 Delmark)
Leo Smith "Images" Spirit Catcher (1979 Nessa Records)
Randy Weston "Lagos" Saga (1995 Gitanes)
Sun Ra "Between Two Worlds" Angels and Demons At Play/The Nubians of Plutonia (1993 Evidence)
Sun Ra "Music From the World Tomorrow" Angels and Demons At Play/The Nubians of Plutonia (1993 Evidence)
Sun Ra "Angels and Demons at Play" Angels and Demons At Play/The Nubians of Plutonia (1993 Evidence)
Sun Ra "Urnack" Angels and Demons At Play/The Nubians of Plutonia (1993 Evidence)
Sun Ra "Medicine For A Nightmare" Angels and Demons At Play/The Nubians of Plutonia (1993 Evidence)
Billy Harper "Light Within" Somalia (1995 Evidence)
Don Cherry "Pettiford Bridge" Multikulti (1990 A&M)
Francis Wong "Glenn Leaps Out" Ming (1995 Asian Improv Records)
8 Bold Souls "Glass Breakers" Sideshow (1992 Arabesque Recordings)
Glenn Horiuchi "Open Gate" Calling Is It and Now (1995 Soul Note)
Babkas "Rocky and Rachel" Ants to the Moon (1994 Songlines)