Nubian Roots Playlist - March 1996
"Jazz" Records Received and Added for March 1996
Butler, Henry "For All Seasons" (Atlantic)
Stevens/Carter/Bailey "One Time" (Incus)
Surrender to the Air "Surrender to the Air" (Elektra)
Bergman, Borah/Roscoe Mitchell "First Meeting" (Knitting Factory)
Nil "Nil" Unit)
Ulmer, James Blood "Are You Glad to Be in America" (DIW)
Colossal Saxophone Sessions "Colossal Saxophone Sessions" (Evidence)
Lacy/Carter/Centazzo "Trio Live" (New Tone)
Stevens, Micheal Jefry & MHaiku "Stevens, Micheal Jefry & MHaiku" (Leo)
Ware, David "Dao" (Homestead)
Billy Tipton Memorial Saxaphone Quartet "Box" (New World)
Masada "Hei" (DIW)
Schweizer, Irene/Han Bennink "Live" (Intakt)
Sylvester, Jorge "Musicollage" Postcards)
Horn, Shirley "The Main Ingredient" (Verve)
Golia, Vinny (2XCD) "Commemoration" (Nine Winds)
Palmer, Jeff "Island Universe" (Soul Note)
Parker, William "Testimony" (Zero In)
Top 10 Recordings for March
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. Masada: Hei (DIW)
2. Haynes, Graham: Transition (Verve)
3. Bailey/Zorn/Parker: Harras (Avant)
4. Stevens, Micheal Jefry & Mark Feldman: Haiku (Leo)
5. Billy Tipton Memorial Saxaphone Quartet: Box (New World)
6. Schweizer, Irene/Han Bennink: Live (Intakt)
7. Ware, David: Dao (Homestead)
8. Pine, Courtney: Modern Day Jazz Stories (Antilles)
9. Horn, Shirley: The Main Ingredient (Verve)
10. Colossal Saxophone Sessions (2XCD): Colossal Saxophone Sessions
(Evidence)
March 2, 1996
James Newton
"Meditations on Integration" Romance and Revolution (1987 Blue Note)
Muhal Richard Abrams "Encore" Think All, Focus One (1995 Black Saint)
Joe Lavono "Tafabalewa Suite" Worlds (1995 Evidence)
Graham Haynes "South Node of the Moon in Pices" Transition (1995 Verve)
Booker Ervin "Mojo" The Space book (1965 Prestige)
Mal Waldron "Status Seeking" The Quest (1961 Prestige)
Fool Proof "Title Nine Blues" Fo Friction (1988 Gramavision)
Charles Mingus "Half-Mast Inhibition" Mingus Revisited (1960/1965 PolyGram Records)
John Coltrane "Blues Minor" The Complete Africa Brass Sessions (1995 Impulse!)
Barre Philips "Mountainscape VIII" Mountainscapes (1976 ECM)
Andrew Hill "Nefertisis" Live at Montreux (1975 Freedom)
Billy Harper "Somalia" Somalia (1995 Evidence)
Krakatau "Matinale" Matinale (1995 ECM)
Francis Wong "An Imbalance in Our Times" Ming (1995 Asian Improv)
Charlie Parker "Ornithology" Charlie Parker Broadcast Performances (1973 ESP-Disk)
Bud Powell "Woody N'You" Inner Fires (1982 Elektra)
Bud Powell "Bud Powell Interview" Inner Fires (1982 Elektra)
Rosenboom/Braxton "Transfiguration" Two Lines (1995 Lovely Music)
March 9, 1996
Vijay Iyer
"Relativist's Waltz" Memorophilia (1995 Asian Improv)
Roy Campbell "Vigilance" Communion (1995 Silkheart)
American Jazz Ensemble "The Lonely Monk" New Dimensions (Epic)
Graham Haynes "Freestylin'" Transition (1995 Verve)
Randy Weston "Loose Wig" Saga (1995 Gitanes)
Booker Little "Victory and Sorrow" Victory and Sorrow (1986 Bethlehem)
Ben Goldberg/Kenny Wollenson "Folleree Folleroo" The Relative Value of Things (1992 Njamin Music)
Battaglia/Dalla Porta/Pifareley "Trio 2" Triplicity (1995 DDQ)
Billy Bang "Inorganic Beings" The Fire From Within (1985 Soul Note)
Diedre Murray/Fred Hopkins "Systems" Firestorm (1992 Victo)
Wynton Marsalis "Holy Ghost" In This House, On This Morning (1994 Columbia)
Russell Baba "Sparkle Blue" Earth Prayer (1992 Ruba Music)
Amiri Baraka "The X is Black (Spike Lie)" United States of Poetry (Mouth Almighty)
Courtney Pine "Absolution" Modern Day Jazz Stories (1995 Verve)
Original Phalanx "Song Number One" Original Phalanx (1987 DIW)
Nina Simone "Come Ye" Wild is the Wind/High Priestess of Soul (1990 Mercury)
Toshiko Akiyoshi "Warning! Success May Be Hazardous to Your Health" Finesse (.)
Charles Mingus "Fables of Fabous" The Great Concert of Charles Mingus (.)
March 30, 1996
Geri Allen
"And They Partied" Maroons (Blue Note)
Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet "Soleil" Box (1996 New World Records)
Alice Coltrane "Blue Nile" Red Hot on Impulse (1995 Impulse!)
Cassandra Wilson "Woman on the Edge" Jumpworld (JMT)
Randy Weston/Melba Liston "Chalabati Blues" Volcano Blues (Antilles)
Mary Lou Williams "It Ain't Necessarily So" Mary Lou Williams Presents (Mary Records)
Blackman/Debriano/Fiuczynski "Next Time" Trio + 2 (Freelance)
Cassandra Wilson "Never" Point of View (JMT)
Shirley Horn "Blues for Sarge" The Main Ingredient (Verve)
Miriam Makeba "Amampondo" Africa (Novus)
Cesaria Evora "Petit Pays" Cesaria Evora (Elektra)
Uptown String Quartet "JJ's Jam" Just Wait A Minute (Mesa Bluemoon)
Aki Takase "A.V.S" Shima Shoka ()
Joe Lovano "Worlds" Worlds (Evidence)
Steve Coleman "Rhythm People" Rhythm People (Novus)
Courtney Pine "Absolution" Modern Day Jazz Stories (Verve)
Geri Allen "No More Mr. Nice Guy" In The Year of the Dragon (1989 JMT)
Irene Schweizer/Han Bennink "Verzweigelt" Irene Schweizer & Han Bennink (Intakt)
Tony Williams "Echo" Spring (Blue Note)
Zusaan Kali Fasteau "Encoding Delight" Prophecy (Flying Note)
Graham Haynes "Transition" Transition (Verve)
Muhal Richard Abrams "Before & After" Think All, Focus One (Black Saint)
Billy Holiday "She's Funny That Way" The Billy Holiday Collection ()
Ella Fitzgerald "Cottontail" Ella at Duke's Place ()
Carol Emanuel "Parallel Play" Tops of Trees (Koch)
Surrender to the Air "And Furthermore" Surrender to the Air (Elektra)